#Epidemic

Daily Caller

DailyCaller

Joe Biden on the coronavirus pandemic:"If [Trump] had shut it down a month earlier, we'd have probably another 45-60 thousand people alive instead of dead... He didn't listen to guys

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

0/ Thread on how mass-media-induced fear of COVID irrationally transformed our priors.I have talked a lot about the mass hysteria that was created...https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1239995212572876802?s=20This thread gets more at th

Nelson Havi

NelsonHavi

Courts are open and working in Malawi. They have said: “The judiciary is enjoined by sections 9, 45, 103 of the Constitution to ensure that the rule of law is

Jenny B. 🇸🇪 #UsforThem

jblovatt

1/7 Prof Heneghan to Govt Science & Technology Committee, 17/9: 'For acute respiratory pathogens there are more people with other infections on board than Covid. One of the key things

WorldCoffeeResearch

WCoffeeResearch

What can we learn about pandemics from looking at the history of plant epidemics? This week we’re going to dive down on coffee leaf rust, the most dastardly of coffee

Frances Lumsden

FrancesLumsden

On average I watched about 10 hours of violence every week during my childhood. Over 16 years than equates to 8320 hours of watching your Mum be punched, kicked, strangled,

Kim Weeden

WeedenKim

Should universities resume face-to-face instruction in fall? Ben Cornwell and I posted a working paper with relevant evidence from @Cornell on the structure of enrollment networks that connect students and

ShanghaiPanda

thinking_panda

Today, I will go to #Xinjiang on business. This is my first trip since the outbreak of the #covid19 virus this year. In order to avoid missing my flight, I

Ian Colin Taylor

iancolintaylor

Asked why Britain’s epidemic was worse than countries like France and Germany, Prof Helen Ward said: “There was a lack of testing, lack of PPE, lack of ventilators and the

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

Karl Friston's model suggests that LSHTM/Imperial/Academy of Medical Sciences projections of numbers of deaths in a second wave are way too high. But a functioning ‘find, test, trace, isolate, support

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

New study of COVID in children finds children can spread virus as easily as adults. Therefore, kids are equal vectors for transmission. (Good interview by @ashishkjha). #covid19 2) Jury is

Dan Waidelich

dan_waidelich

The communication breakdowns around COVID-19 can't help remind one of the way communication breakdowns magnified the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 80s and 90s. So I'm not a virologist or epidemiologist

Simon Bradley

SimonBradley8

I am increasingly concerned about relaxation of lockdown without having Test, Trace & Isolate in place. This brings a significant risk of an early second wave. I am sure TT&I

Tom Inglesby

T_Inglesby

As US hits new highs in national and state COVID cases, and rising hospitalizations, some leaders say we're rounding the corner. Others offer fatalism that there’s nothing more to be

Heidi Przybyla

HeidiNBC

Epidemiologist Op-Ed:Estimated 90% of deaths in U.S., at least from first wave of the epidemic, might have been prevented by putting social distancing policies into effect two weeks earlier, on

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

THREAD1/ Of all the articles I read this week on #COVID19, this @nytimes really caught my eye. It was an interview w/ Dr. Bruce Aylward, the lead on the