#Epidemic

So Fain

sofain

30% of Americans deserve to be bullied.https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/13/us/coronavirus-made-in-lab-poll-trnd/index.html Bats are edible. But how about you keep the focus on who is at fault for lying about important details early on in

Gbénró Adégbolá ن

GbenroAdegbola

Apparently there’s an ‘epidemic’ of Vit. D deficiency in most white collared Nigerians. This is very strange because sun ray is the most efficient catalyst of its production by the

Soumyadipta

Soumyadipta

This interview exposes why the Chinese kept on lying to the world despite knowing that they had the Corona Virus epidemic breeding in their backyard in Wuhan.Did you know that

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

2/ And, sure, maybe China had some deaths at home (just like Italy) during the peak of its epidemic. BJT WHAT IF THE TRUTH IS... that the real secret China

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

THREAD1/ Have seen comments floating around re whether the numbers used in this article are exactly correct or completely fit the epidemiology of spread etc; the footnotes clearly state these

R.Сам 🦋🐏

Logo_Daedalus

It’s almost like people who make a show of their piety as a twitter brand are trying to create pre-emptive cover & support networks for any inevitable scandal which exposes

Andrew Coyne

acoyne

It’s working, folks (continued): today’s national growth rate in cases, at 6.7 per cent, was the slowest for any day since February, when the outbreak first began to accelerate here.

Syed

gypsy_heart6

Japan waged biological warfare against China during WWII: "Between 1932 & 1945, the Japanese conducted an extensive program to study biological weapons, which they tested on Chinese prisoners. At a

Robert Peston

Peston

One big problem for @BorisJohnson is this. Dominic Cummings is the living breathing symbol of his government. And Cummings’s actions seem to say that the lockdown rules - which let’s

David Fisman

DFisman

Just to put in perspective how critically important @Mesoy640 's seroprevalence data is: Denmark, 2.7% seropositive for COVID19Recognized cases = 4830.Population = 5.6 million.Crudely (this is all aggregate) 2.7% seroprev

Joel Miller

joel_c_miller

@mlipsitch has a thread about a pair of recent preprints (note - not peer reviewed) which show that due to heterogeneities, immunity acquired through infection can lead to "herd immunity"

Jaap Stronks

jaapstronks

1/2 I don’t think anyone believes that OMT member Illy truly thinks it is in the best interest of children’s well-being to not close schools for a couple of weeks

Kyle Lamb

kylamb8

I'm gonna level with you, in March I was just a podcaster and data dude with an opinion. Now, I've heard from doctors, epidemiologists, state, local and federal officials, journalists

politi_geek

politi_geek

This isn't the first time an anti-science leader rallied his supporter to attack and discredit a doctor in the face of an epidemic in order to preserve the economy.In 1900,

the notorious D.O.G. 😷🇺🇲

DogOfPoasts

I'm late to the party on this, but the IHME model is apparently just trend extrapolation, and relatively crude 70-year-old laurel-resting full prof trend extrapolation at that https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/03/29/the-second-derivativ

Prof. Christina Pagel

chrischirp

THREAD: I was on @BBCNewsnight on Weds. Prof Gupta suggested a herd immunity strategy as a natural phenomenon & how we control infectious disease and elsewhere she has called on