#Epidemic

Alexander Samuel

AlexSamTG

Dans la guerre de l'information, il y a des choses gravissimes qui se passent, et c'est d'autant plus choquant que de nombreux "idiots utiles" en France s'appuient sur ça pour

Endless Shrimp

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Looking at publications by Timothy Cunningham, the CDC scientist who recently went missing. He has been doing some very good and interesting work.https://twitter.com/i/moments/967192292103565312 Cunningham is first author on this longitudinal

R.Сам 🦋🐏

Logo_Daedalus

It’s funny how many people who hate “nihilism” will, if forced to answer enough questions about their beliefs, ultimately refer to nothing but subjective experience, feelings, “a certain sense that,”

Will Jennings

drjennings

Toby Young 'expert'. Nobody, including the Oxford team, believes this is true. Shame on The Sun for publishing this irresponsible rubbish. Shame on Toby Young for cynical misrepresentation of the

Justin Stearns

kaohu11

Quick thread on plague treatises (natch!) in the Muslim world. The genre takes off following the black death, and while it overlaps to varying degrees with fatwas on the plague,

Tom Ellis

ProfTomEllis

I'm sorry but this year it should be called "Lobby Universities, Funders and Governments To Actually Give a Damn About Postdocs Week" here's why... While we all

robert rosencrans

rfrosencrans

I’m an adipose tissue biologist. I study sympathetic nerve action on adipocytes. This month is my first committee meeting since beginning to intensely read weight bias literature. I’m nervous to

John Lichfield

john_lichfield

Here is an extended French Covid update and number crunch...The daily figures for new Covid cases in France yesterday were dreadful – 4,771, which is the highest in 24 hours

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

The report does not explicitly consider the economic/health impact of different mitigation measures. For instance, the scenario of a 18-month lockdown would devastate the economy and could hence reduce life

Joseph Friedman, MPH (He/Him)

JosephRFriedman

How much did overdose deaths *actually* increase during the pandemic? The CDC releases rolling 12-month data. But we want to know the true month-to-month death toll.Today in @AMJPublicHealth, @samirakre and

Global Urban History

urbanhist

Thanks to the fabulous #twitterstorians contributions in the last few days, we are starting a syllabus on global urban history and epidemics. We will be featuring one book/article every day

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Public health people are often accused of "enjoying" the pandemic. Now some say that anxiety about reopening is actually "fear of normalcy."Thanks @ChuckWendig for this perfect antidote to the stupid,

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

Grant, I am sorry to hear this. I do not underestimate the toll this pandemic is taking on everyone, including your partner. But the answer isn't in magical thinking, which

Jonathan Giftos, MD🗽🚵🏼‍♂️

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A brief reflection on accountability during #COVID19. 1/x Across the country, our leaders (city, state, & federal) have managed #COVID19 preparation & response in a variety of ways. When the

Michael Baum

MichaelBaum11

I've been inspired to initiate a debate about the comparisons in outcomes between different countries in their efforts to deal with the corona virus pandemic, by this graph posted by

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD

paimadhu

Thread on BCG vaccination and #COVIDー19.There has been a flood of ecological studies & media reports claiming that BCG vaccination protects against COVID-19. See:https://www.medrxiv.org/search/BCG%252Bcovid%252B Some of the studies are thoughtful