#Epidemic

Gary Weissman

garyweissman

In the COVID19 era @ScottHalpernMD reminded me that the most common refrain nowadays is "All models are wrong but some are useful." Here's a walkthrough of how we built a

Tim Skellett

Gurdur

1/ Case-study #1 in politics masquerading as #medicine. sciolism: superficial knowledge.scientism: appealing to 'science' in an invalid way.dishonesty: you know already.Tom Jefferson & Carl Heneghan, "Covid-19 – The tipping point?&qu

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

Tomorrow we launch our Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies Report. We make 18 recommendations to the government to help the UK suppress the virus, save lives and get the

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

Team Apocalypse v Team Reality, a story in two acts. ACT 1: @nytimes finds a rural hospital in a tiny and desperately poor county on the US/Mexico border - a

Rianne Vogels

Rianne_Vogels

Cops who don't take acquaintance rape or date rape seriously, who don't process the evidence, who don't even investigate or question ID-ed perpetrators: How do you feel about #unbelievable @netflix?

mackenzie doesnt use this LMAO

mmackenziep

so many children grow up scared of what could happen to their families every single day so many children grow up in a living hell and cant do anything about

Luc Rocher

cynddl

Privacy researchers, govts, and tech companies work on contact tracing apps, hoping to curb down the pandemic. We often hear that 56, 60, or 70% of the population would need

Bi Dyke Praise Kink

Azure_Husky

Content warnings for transphobia against transmasculine people, including violence and harassment It's easy to say that transmasculine people get male privilege and face less oppression than many other trans people,

Markku Peltonen

MarkkuPeltonen

(Changed my mind, posting the figures but no comments)Use of care and mortality due to corona in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Estonia; data from yesterday 10.4. Read the

Fiery but peaceful Mike

Doranimated

The tests are often not sensitive enough to detect the virus. For example, in Israel they isolated a guy who lived with a confirmed Covid19 patient. It was not until

Rachel Honey-Jones 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

RHoneyJones

If the general public had seen an intensive care unit during this epidemic; I promise you they would be barricading themselves indoors. This is me saying good bye to my

loni (they them)

singulathey

crackhead, and how addiction and drug use is viewed and discussed broadly, is racialized and always has been. there's a reason the word crackhead exists and is used as a

Murad Banaji

muradbanaji

#COVID19 in Delhi. The question is not whether the Delhi govt is underreporting #COVID19 deaths, but by how much? I'll examine this with press reports and modelling. Conclusion: Delhi #COVID19

madison miller

MadisonSedona

#perspective Imagine you were born in 1900. On your 14th birthday, World War I starts, & ends on your 18th birthday. 22 million perish in that war. Later that year,

Ram

ramprasad_c

Let me explain basic stats to you dolts. There’s no random testing in India since yield of positive cases is low. sampling method used for Tablighi is the same one

Samuel Marrache

SamuelMarrache

#Gibraltar and its last Epidemic - 10 Minute Interesting Read #ThreadGibraltar's population was devastatingly impacted by yellow fever in the 1800s. I'll (try to) briefly summarise some interesting findings in