#Epidemic

Gianluca Rinaldi

gian_rinaldi

1. What's the infection fatality rate for COVID-19? @MatteoParadisi and I looked at 10 Lombardy towns locked down Feb 21. With a fully functioning hospital system(early days of epidemic), we

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Sobering article on how there will be a wave of disability & death from other chronic diseases after pandemic (happened in 1918 too). Will be tempting to keep testing asymptomatic

Graham Neary

GrahamNeary

Why is Ireland locking down again? Look no further than our Covid-19 spreadsheet modellers.They are unshakeable in the belief that Covid-19 remains a deadly threat to the population. But as

Justin Hart

justin_hart

1/ It's time for some more self-reflection. The REAL cause for concern are not the deaths from #COVID19 or cases but the hospitalizations and the extremely rare and unique damage

Robyn, aka sunsong23

WPCelebration

THREAD: Important/Valuable information. Please be aware:1."Statement from Jonathan P. Smith, epidemiologist:"As an infectious disease epidemiologist, at this point I feel morally obligated to provide some information on what we ar

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ TL:DR - @who published a massive review/meta-analysis of interventions for flu epidemics in 2019, found "moderate" evidence AGAINST using masks. (They actually missed the 2015 Vietnam study, yet another

Ahmad Waqass Goraya

AWGoraya

Iran and China lied and still lying about #COVID19 pandemic. Since 15 March Iran always reports between 120-150 daily deaths with one exception where numbers were reported to be 157.

Stéphane Helleringer

helleringer143

We have a new pre-print out @socarxiv on the pressing need to conduct frequent mobile phone surveys to monitor excess deaths due to the #COVID19 pandemic in low income and

Mello.B33

B33Mello

1/ In this thread i will explain why nearly the entire medical & scientific world has everything backwards regarding SARS-CoV-2 & why over focusing solely on virus itself & what

David Grainger

sciencescanner

This is interesting. The provocative part is not the data, nor as most of the rep;ones in this thread focus on, estimates of CFR but the striking difference between US

The New York Times

nytimes

Many have praised Sweden for staying open during the coronavirus outbreak.We looked at the data: Yes, Sweden is better off than many countries that enforced strict lockdowns. But its outbreak

Kurt Eichenwald

kurteichenwald

Since @larry_kudlow is too stupid to look up basic info about pandemics/epidemics - & thus says "nobody could have predicted" COVID-19 would have an exponential rise - thus *proving* Trump

EcologySenseUK

uk_ecology

‘Down the rabbit hole’ ThreadAre you ready? It all started with a book. #ClimateCult propaganda from the Thunbergs ‘Our House is on Fire’ which is designed to scare our children

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

An explainer thread (often I feel I am pitching these to journalists as much as anyone else) on COVID this month. Context: I am an expert in one area (human

🐸💌 angel

angelisafrog

what is the istanbul convention? a thread:educate yourself. speak up. protect our women. don't let them ban the law.#istanbulsozlesmesiyasatir convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence.#istanbul

Caitlin Rivers, PhD

cmyeaton

A month ago @ScottGottliebMD and I cautioned against forbidding people from leaving their homes. Now there are calls by prominent leaders for the opposite. 1/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/12/quarantining-cities-isnt-needed-fast-coor