#Mitigation

Eric Lipton

EricLiptonNYT

JUST POSTED:As the death toll continues to rise in the US, The NYT takes a deep look at the weeks of inaction by President Trump despite growing alarm by some

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

Overcentralisation v Self-organising. The UK always had testing capacity. Like Korea we developed a WHO approved test on January 10th. But Korea immediately approached their pharmaceutical companies to help expand

Daniel Swain

Weather_West

Our new work on #ClimateChange & autumn wildfire risk in California, led by Michael Goss, is out today in (open-access) ERL. We find that climate change has already doubled the

Elliot Haspel

ehaspel

THREAD: This is a critical, must-read, nuanced document from @AAPNews (the American Academy of Pediatrics) that is strongly supportive of in-person instruction. I'm going to quote several important segments.https://services.aap.org/en/p

Prathamesh Godbole

prathgodbole

Short on systematic trading-Lot of time gets spent on optimisation, indicators and multi factor models, not enough on selection of the right asset class or allocation between them. Any

Prof Bunny Hugger 🌍🌹🌱💙 #ClimateAction

JKSteinberger

Hi. This is not true. Like seriously enormously not true. It's cute letting a celebrity billionaire be your climate policy figurehead [editor's note: it's really not], but this is straight

Defeat Trump #VoteEarly #BidenHarrisLandslide2020

Defeat_Trump2

1/ When Trump announced that children are "practically invulnerable" to COVID he engaged in a calculated lie. To the contrary, children do contract COVID in large numbers; they do suffer

Claire Niedzwiedz

DrCeNz

My thoughts on our @JECH_BMJ paper looking at mental health & health behaviours before & during lockdown (1/5)1) As others found, bigin psychological distress. Some of this is normal, esp

James Melville

JamesMelville

So while our media hail Boris Johnson as a national hero for recovering from Coronavirus, perhaps they should do their job and consider this: 980 announced dead today, 1,000+ when

Dan Gardner

dgardner

I agree with all of this (minus “misleading” — Wimbledon’s challenge was same in kind, though vastly easier). It’s an epic poem of a subject and I had space for

Giulio Mattioli

giulio_mattioli

You know when someone accepts man-made climate change, but then explains why we should do nothing about it? We call these "Discourses of #ClimateDelay" & there are 12 of them.

Elaine Doyle

laineydoyle

If you're arguing over whether Boris & Co's 'herd immunity' policy (& the resulting delay in lockdown) had any effect on death rates - here's your angle, lads.You have a

Jeremy PLEASE WEAR MASKS! Konyndyk

JeremyKonyndyk

I would very much like this to be true! But I'm not entirely persuaded that the data referenced in this article is robust enough to support the headline.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/schools-arent-superspreaders/6166

Dinesh S. Thakur

d_s_thakur

1/n In re: the Patanjali claim that it has an Ayurvedic cure for Corona please do refer to these rules which banned AYUSH drugs from being advertised for " diagnosis,

Stefan Aykut

StefanAykut

Current debates on an #exitstrategy follow a broader pattern. ThreadThere are 2 options:- Strict lockdown until the virus is under control (R0 low, infections low), then open, test & trace-

Glen Peters

Peters_Glen

Do scenarios adequately explore uncertainty in land-use change emissions?CO₂ emissions from LUC vary little across scenarios, with baselines (grey) & mitigation scenarios having large overlaps.Historical datasets highly uncertainty (l