#Epidemic

Kathleen Smith

KikkiPlanet

I’m seeing a lot of white people demand that black people be more polite - “nicer” - about their fight for equality. Reminder: it was 29 yrs ago that Rodney

Kish

kishkitsch

Did you say cases?New (long) thread about PCR test From Beda Stadler's article, linked in this thread. (former director of Institute for Immunology University of Bern)https://twitter.com/kishkitsch/status/1279889634827415559?s=20 https:

Brandi Morin

Songstress28

When I covered Andy Sydora threatening 2 shoot up Saddlelake First Nation & Ashmont school w/ 90% Indigenous kids in November no other media except the local paper was there.

Josh Michaud

joshmich

In a newly published study, modelers at @LosAlamosNatLab look at #SARSCoV2 transmission in China and conclude it spread faster and had a higher R0 than most previous studies have estimated.

Vinay Gupta

leashless

Also, I can't even remember what I'm trying to do here. My mind has basically thrown out about 15 years of world models, leaving me in this weird Tabula Rasa

Chris Murphy

ChrisMurphyCT

1/ Stick with this thread to the end.Friday in Hartford a young woman named Solmary Cruz nervously handed me a slip of paper with a neatly written list of changes

Mark Greene

RemakingManhood

Men need to acknowledge that we are under attack. *The trick,* and damn this is a difficult trick for millions of men, is to wake up and realize this violent

Mikki Kendall

Karnythia

All of that is great. But we have a "What happens to kids who cannot access resources at home no matter how many there are" current abuse problem & I

John Lichfield

john_lichfield

President Emmanuel Macron has just announced the extension of the month-old French lockdown for almost another month to 11 May. He says France has "faced up to" and "checked" the

Vinayak

vinayak_jain

Narendra Modi is dealing with an exceptional crisis. No PM has had to face such a situation that has impacted every part of India and every aspect of life. If

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

The response to the 1918 pandemic had some remarkably familiar features, as described in this 2010 article (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862334/#__ffn_sectitle). For example, there was debate about the effectiveness of mask

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

.@realDonaldTrump's "anaemic response led the US to become the current epicentre of the global covid-19 pandemic, with almost one third of the world’s cases and a still rising number of

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

A spectacularly bad analysis by ⁦@stavernise⁩ ⁦@FrancesRobles⁩ & ⁦@thislouis⁩. They bend over backwards and in several other directions to diffuse blame for what is happening now. It’s not just both-sides-ism,

Ben Boyle

ohioaneveryman

I'm not against wearing masks, at least in crowded areas or around high risk people, but the idea that all of America must continue to be entirely shutdown for much

Niall Ferguson

nfergus

Six questions for Xi Jinping, US edition: 1. What exactly was going on in Wuhan that led to the initial emergence of SARS-CoV-2?https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/06/opinion/chinas-three-body-problem/ 2. How big a role did the

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

What is #herdimmunity threshold for #COVID19?A topic of much discussion due to large uncertainty & huge consequences for long term impact. New paper illustrates 1 key aspect that can reduce