#Deaths

Youyang Gu

youyanggu

Here's one danger of data:Child abuse cases are way down during this pandemic. Does that mean there's less child abuse happening? Of course not.If schools are closed and children are

urban hermit

urbanhermit7

Last night @drsatish_kumar & @niknike80 commented that i might be getting too pessimistic about covid19. So let's look at some of the positives..from my home, locality, ward, city, state, country

Nathaniel Barker

NatBarkerIH

Look at this extraordinary graph. It shows levels of housing overcrowding plotted against COVID-19 mortality rates. Here's another graph, showing the average coronavirus mortality rates among areas with different levels

David Paton

cricketwyvern

How should governments evaluate lockdowns as a policy?Jury is out on whether lockdowns significantly decrease cases & deaths relative to other measures (e.g. social distancing, hygiene, limiting big events)However we

Stop the Steal - Stu Cvrk

STUinSD

Thread – The “Experts” Led Us into a Cul-de-sac1. It is incredible that the US economy was shut down largely on the basis of the predictions of a faulty model

JJ Robinson II

EverydayEagle

Not seeing sources for the Federalist statistics, and they're using unemployment as "as a proxy for the degree of a state’s effort to lock down residents", which may be suspect.https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/26/data-left-

Tom Moyer

TomMoyerUT

Updated graphs for 5/9. First up is comparison of descent trajectories between different countries that have passed their peaks. The start point for each is the top of the curve.

Shannon Young

SYoungReports

This table within the NYT interactive on pandemic excess mortality worldwide gives me more confidence to report something I've been suspecting for awhile: Mexico probably has the world's highest number

Ali H. Mokdad

AliHMokdad

.@IHME_UW now projects 410,451 #COVID19 deaths by Jan 1st, this is about 224,000 deaths from now until the end of the year. These are not numbers or statistics but family

Gabriel Recchia

mesotronium

Our paper on how well experts and laypeople forecast the size of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK (back in April) is out: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0250935 @d_spiegel @alex_freeman Short answer: Not ve

NCDC

NCDCgov

Eight new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria: 5 in Lagos, 2 in the FCT and 1 in Kaduna StateAs at 09:30 pm 5th April there are 232

Suzy Khimm

SuzyKhimm

EXCLUSIVE: There are more than 2,200 nursing-home deaths from #COVIDー19 in 24 states.2,300+ nursing homes have COVID infections.The federal government isn't tracking any of this. So @strickdc and I compiled

Adewunmi

eadewunmi

Let me tell this story with data. Sweden has recorded 2,941 deaths:- 2,576 deaths (87%) are 70+ people who were in lockdown at nursing homes. - Only 19 deaths (0.64%)

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Significant paper on the cost of misinformation. Basically, one standard deviation more viewership of Sean Hannity (denied seriousness of COVID) versus Tucker Carlson (took the pandemic seriously) is associated with

Chris Giles

ChrisGiles_

NEW: The excess UK deaths linked to coronavirus are likely to be around41,000as of yesterday, not the 17,337 of the hospital deaths announcementsHere is the explanation for that estimate, which

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sfcbdlm2

Looking at corona virus numbers, you do have to wonder if the science was right. Today UK had around the same new cases as Germany, France, Spain & Italy added