#Epidemic

Kate McAllister

KateMc993

THREAD: I’ve been trying to maintain some separation between COVID and my thesis, which focuses on an early 20c disease called Encephalitis Lethargica. But this morning I saw this headline

Ohio Department of Common Sense

OhioSense

Scientific studies during and after the 1918 flu showed no reduction of spread from masks even when universally worn. Scientists consequently admitted something must be wrong with their hypothesis on

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

The debate about how to respond to the #COVID19 pandemic is often framed as a scientific, or a scientific/economic problem. I do not believe it really is. Instead, it is

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

Relaxing UK COVID-19 control measures over the Christmas period will inevitably create more transmission risk. There are four main things that will influence just how risky it will be... 1/

Andrew Lee

andrewleedr

Musings today: The problem I think with the current approach to COVID19 is we are approaching it the wrong way round, from the wrong end of the telescope.1/... COVID19 is

Joel Miller

joel_c_miller

I'm seeing a lot of sniping going on in Australian politics about whose fault the recent outbreak is, and whose "failure" it was. First - this discussion is absolutely crazy.Australia

Erin Mordecai

morde

Lots of media coverage of the striking numbers on @nytimes front page today, based on a preprint from @ColumbiaMSPH (@Senpei_CU et al), and for good reason. We could have averted

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

Just a little history lesson. Today's @US_FDA was born out of decades of tragedy. Let's start with the 1937 Sulfanilamide elixir tragedy, in which 71 adults and 34 children died,

Dr. Bronner's

DrBronner

LEGALIZE PSILOCYBIN THERAPY! OREGONIANS, PLEASE SUPPORT @YESONIP34!SIGN HERE: https://yesonip34.org/sign-the-petition/ For the 2020 cycle, Dr. Bronner’s is supporting the legalization of #psychedelic therapy with more than $1 million, plus another mi

woke capital investment advisor machine

golikehellmachi

everyone knows that the reason the liability protections are bad is because companies that have customer-facing jobs will force their employees to take off their masks during what might be

Got3nks

Tru3Got3nks

You know what also fuck it, I'll make this thread of shit about me Hello, my name is Matt but online it's just gotenks. I'm a weeb that really just

BPS DHP

divhealthpsych

Check out the guidance led by @tracyepton and the Behavioural Science and Disease Prevention Taskforce, on optimising vaccine uptake for COVID-19. UPTAKE should be considered (see thread for details) 1/7https://www.bps.org.uk/news-and-polic

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

THREAD1/ I asked people to be outraged that our epidemic disaster continues. Complacency now will kill us later.Someone replied that they were outraged, but now what?Outrage isn’t enough if it

Trinity Research in Social Sciences

TRiSSTCD

We are delighted to announce the recipients of the 2019/20 TRiSS Academic and Postgraduate Research Awards. Details of the individual projects are linked in this thread Amongst those awarded TRiSS

Amy Sterling Casil

ASterling

Dr. Anthony Fauci is 79 years old. He isn't a hero and nobody should be promoting him. If Trump is at fault, it's because he did listen to "health experts".

Allyson Heim

MsHeim

Book List! Pandemic ProtagonistsWhen I'm experiencing uncertainty, my go-to strategy is to #readaboutit. Here are books I've read over the years that feature some kind of disease and some kind