#Epidemic

I think the beating of this drum by certain people in the theatre community without any deep criticality outside of “its better the normal way” is wasting a lot of
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A key reminder of SARS-CoV-2 cases; in March/April the testing depth and testing criteria was far far lower - so different to now as one should mentally split away graphs
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1/ I'll admit I stopped worrying about the geniuses at @IHME_UW for a while. I assumed after April they had given up embarrassing themselves.Nope. Seems they're still here. Somehow after
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There’s going to be an epidemic of car-related bankruptcies when the economy turns.https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-45-000-loan-for-a-27-000-ride-more-borrowers-are-going-underwater-on-car-loans-11573295400 As always, read @PamelaFoohey @BobLawless1 @D
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Some things about those hill-shaped infection curves:1) they assume that R (which essentially measures the rate of spread) is constant. People are expecting the actual curve to look like those
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fun thread on louis/harry/rbb/sbb and queer history from your local women, gender, and sexuality studies major! for context, you should read my first thread on queer history where I talked
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'work by scientists had shown that, with only limited interventions, the virus would trigger an “overwhelming epidemic” in which Britain’s health service was not going “to get anywhere near being
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A further 3,105 #COVID19 cases in the UK over the past 24 hours. UK trajectory following pretty much bang in line with France & Spain. Should we be panicking already...?
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I am so amazed at how I’m only acknowledged as a “citizen” of this country when y’all need my vote. I grew up in the projects for 9 years, I
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One wrong idea in the (big player) investor community right now is that healthcare is set for future boom. It's not -- if you're doing it for money. COVID-19 has
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It has been requested that I do a simpler version of this thread, explaining why the modellers advising the Irish government are so amazingly wrong in their forecasts and in
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We have new mortality data for the US. What it shows is very interesting. To start with, here's the raw data. Note the little bump in the last week with
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A problem with armchair epidemiologists is that they can make very confident-sounding statements without acknowledging (or perhaps even recognizing) that those statements depend on assumptions.https://twitter.com/federicolois/status/1298631
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1/Look at the shape of these curves. New York and Madrid had similar epidemics until they spectacularly diverged.In March, both cities were caught by surprise and shut down because of
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‘Coughs and sneezes spread diseases.’That slogan was a US public health message used during the Spanish Flu Epidemic. It’s a message which remains just as true 100 years on, during
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My elderly uncle is in Vietnam, where he has been living for several years.This is the letter he sent to family in the States: /1 Just in case any of
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