#Epidemic

Prof. Devi Sridhar

devisridhar

I'm reading through the released SAGE minutes from Feb/March & oh wow- some of the conclusions they reached were way off. 8th SAGE meeting: 'When there is sustained transmission in

cylon eve

browofjustice

Yeah, I’m just...I have #cPTSD because of years of childhood abuse, sex trafficking, trapped in an abusive marriage where I was tortured and utterly controlled, and almost killed. So saying

Wellcome Collection

ExploreWellcome

Through its long history, London has survived some enormous epidemics. During the 1665 Great Plague of London, the city burned, shops closed and the streets emptied. Read Samuel Pepys’s account

ANI

ANI

United States has identified sources of specific raw material urgently required for Indian manufacture of Covishield vaccine that will immediately be made available for India: US NSA Jake Sullivan to

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/It's almost midnight here, and I'm finally getting around to:Coronavirus Tweets from the Experts, 5/12/2020https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/lists/coronavirus 2/Big outbreak in Latin Americahttps://twitter.com/nytimesworld/status/1260429828349

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

I think the below modelling output provides a useful illustration of how to evaluate forecasts. A short thread... 1/https://twitter.com/globalhlthtwit/status/1303011885348990976?s=20 First, let's be clear about difference between a '

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

To understand the fibs and elisions Team Apocalypse is now using in its rearguard action to keep lockdowns alive, I want to run through this much retweeted thread from a

Frederic Guarino

fredericg

#perspective #Covid19 the 2nd wave was ALWAYS in the cards if you bothered to: 1- look at the Spanish flu charts 2- internalize that coronavirus=cold 3- 2020 humans like in

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

(1/12) The #CovidToes mystery deepens again.It looks like they are caused by #SARSCoV2 after all, but people have been looking with the wrong test.It seems pretty conclusive now that #COVID19

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

In this thread, I collect the threads about #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 that I have prepared on various aspects of the coronavirus pandemic. Please note that the situation is fluid and knowledge

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

A common criticism of population-based epidemic models is that they don't account for individual-level variation in transmission (i.e. superspreading events). But how much of a problem is this? 1/ For

Ruchita

roocheetah

Depression is not a personality trait that someone ‘cannot have’. It’s an illness with its of symptoms, challenges and manifestations. If you are not a clinician, you cannot provide a

John Scotus

John_Scotus

Interesting. Compare with China. The first evidence of the new virus infecting humans was in late November (but not identified until Dec 10). Mitigation efforts did not begin until Wuhan

Wyatt, Austere Deplorable

Western2A

Promising to eradicate Polio with $1.2 billion, Gates took control of India‘s (NAB) & mandated 50 polio vaccines (up from 5) to every child before age 5. Indian doctors blame

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ Let's get back to the (new!) @IHME_UW #COVID model - this time looking at states. Recall, the model cut its estimate of peak hospitalizations almost in half last night,

Stefan Simanowitz

StefSimanowitz

So #DominicCummings attended at least 6 of 34 SAGe meetings btw late Jan & early May.Ben Warner (AI expert who worked on Tory election & Leave Campaigns)attended 13. His brother,