#Epidemic

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

Some good news. U.S. testing rose today, to 139,613 tests/day. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18oVRrHj3c183mHmq3m89_163yuYltLNlOmPerQ18E8w/htmlview# The daily positive test ratio has generally been trending up, which is bad, because it indica

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

"Increasing evidence has shown that asymptomatic individuals can spread the virus efficiently, and the emergence of these silent spreaders of SARS-CoV-2 hascaused difficulties in the control of the epidemic."https://twitter.com/Er

The Lancet

TheLancet

NEW Health Policy—First implemented in China in February 2020, Fangcang shelters, large-scale temporary hospitals, are a novel concept. S Chen et al discuss the value of shelters as a component

Data Bear, PhD 🍑🏳️‍🌈 | Blue Georgia

dataandpolitics

Get the history right.After Rock Hudson pleaded for the White House to help him get transferred to another hospital, Nancy Reagan personally declined the request.Nancy Reagan never spoke to him

Gerry Shih

gerryshih

Bombshell from @AP: internal Chinese documents show central govt held teleconference on Jan 14 with instructions from Xi on epidemic & acknowledged likely H2H transmission. China CDC and WHO publicly

Mackenzie Lockhart

lockhartm

While the pundit class of BC is concerned with the dangers posed by an election, what does the science actually tell us?TL;DR: The risks are minimal, especially when transmission is

Jamie Uhrig

himmoderator

US Ambassador #DebbieBirx hid several important points about the US epidemic in her talk on #covid19 #coronavirus at @aids_conference. @iasociety @profadeeba @gregggonsalves @chrisbeyrer 1/6https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMuZVyURYxg Birx i

Dr. Dustin Costescu 🏳️‍🌈

BirthControlDoc

BIRTH CONTROL IS GOOD FOR MOST BODIES . Thread .https://twitter.com/kebtfw/status/1264600837369794560 So, let's start with the obvious. All contraception is safer than the risks of pregnancy and childbirth. ALL OF THEM.

Cocaine Mitch’s Pager

ColumbianMitch

Anyone shocked that @GovWhitmer is a tyrannical authoritarian hasn’t been paying attention. As we #PrayForMi, here are some examples of her tyranny 1/ She used the executive branch to threaten

Tim Requarth

timrequarth

So, after my @slate article on the epidemic of armchair epidemiology, I really didn’t want to spend more time discussing another amateur’s post, but I think there’s a useful lesson

Mello.B33

B33Mello

1/ I really didn't want to do this & i always try to stay within evidence & science realm & avoid ideas that are "out there" but this needs to

Markku Peltonen

MarkkuPeltonen

Use of care and mortality due to corona in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Estonia; data from yesterdays 12.4 reports. Read the whole thread. (English version)Fig 1. Number of

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Inevitable_ET

For 3 years, the Dems/MSM have played a dangerous game of “Gotcha” with Trump.Driven by hate and TDS, they failed to realize all the internet is forever and their opponent

Danny Boy

Care2much18

One-stop thread for my sanity on how I view certain issues that crop up, as opposed to Groundhog Day rehashing the same points in 30 different threads. (-Wash your hands

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

0/ My feedback to the resort I just came back from, politely but firmly asking them to push back on masks for their poor employees. 1/[Your resort] and other resorts

Chris Bateman

SpiralChris

Was asked yesterday who are the vulnerable when it comes to COVID-19?If we take this to mean, who has significantly greater risk of dying of this vs flu, it appears