#Numbers

Scoundrel

ScoundrelBlog

"Pass the salt."vs."Could you please pass me salt?"What's the difference?One is a command—an ORDER. The other is a polite request.The difference is enormous.Yet how many men are ORDERED by their

Christian Durham

AmidaN64

The most interesting thing I've found since joining twitter is the irony of the lefty online social credit system being quite comparable to the flaws of capitalism that they often

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

I struggle with the "we're turning the corner on COVID-19" narrative because the NYT reports we'll likely never reach herd immunity, variants are increasing and soon may resist vaccines, and

Gearoid Reidy

GearoidReidy

Japan state of emergency, week two. Where are we? This is the scenario Abe said he wants to prevent - 80,000 cases in Tokyo in a month. To do that,

Lisa McNally

Lisa_McNally1

We're experiencing a surge of COVID-19 cases in our area. After searching through our data I have some tips for the UK Test & Trace system...(a thread...) (1/7) (2/7) The

Ryan Lownes

ryanlownes

Have done five LSU games from 2019 over the last 48 hours and man, regardless of what’s going on in the world, it’s hard not to feel hopeful as a

Nate Cohn

Nate_Cohn

Taking the live interview polls this month, we've got CNN at Biden+5 (v. long term avg Biden+9), Monmouth at Biden+9 (long term +3.5), and Marquette in WI at Biden+3 (long

John Budd

JohnOKBudd

Like many, I have tried to understand COVID-19, how I can stay safe, and how the state of OK can stay safe. I am going to share some mathematical modeling,

Michael Wagener

Mykuhl

I was thinking about some ways to represent our progress towards full covid-19 vaccination and herd immunity.An idea I had was to imagine a drive from Cape Reinga light house

Steven Hamilton

SHamiltonian

Everyone needs to take a deep breath. When you forcibly shut down the US economy, millions of people are going to go on unemployment insurance. Almost all of these people

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

What's the state of the pandemic in the US? In last monthB.1.1.7 and other variants have become dominant90M vaccines have gone into armsCases are up about 20%Here's the key graph

Shawn Donnan

sdonnan

How dependent is the US on China for medical products and pharmaceuticals? Maybe less than you would think based on the current discourse... This report from the non-partisan Congressional Research

Matthew Bottomley

BottoMatt

Michael Baum in the spectator argues that it's foolish to compare countries. I couldn't disagree more. This thread examines why.https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-foolishness-of-comparing-different-countries-coronavirus-outcomes Understa

Another Angry Woman

stavvers

soooo I'm looking at the SAGE paper which suggested the "circuit breaker" lockdown and they've modelled which interventions are likely to drive down transmission, and it seems to suggest closing

Jeremy Wallace

JeremySWallace

BREAKING: Texas is reporting it's worst day from COVID-19 since the pandemic began with 98 people dying from the virus just since yesterday and a new record of 9,610 people

Simcoe Alkadhi

MrSiMr

Starting a new thread to log re-retweets and re-likes.This morning at around 11:30 RTs/QTs/Ls were at 46.4K/32.1K/215.1K, presently the numbers are at 46.4K/32.1K/214.9K. https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1207646162813100033 twitter pl