#Outbreak

Zichen Wang

ZichenWanghere

A Thread: One key "false narrative"/disinformation complaint from Brussels towards Beijing: China is exploiting the crisis to divide and undermine the EU, via its medical supplies and alleged accompanying propaganda.

Rajeev Jayadevan

RajeevJayadevan

Evidence that B.1.617.2 (India) is a not a fatal variant. No deaths occurred from an outbreak of 15 cases in a UK care home. This group, being frail, has high

COVID19

V2019N

#DC: their model estimates the outbreak in the nation’s capital will peak June 28. @IHME_UW says peak is April 16. DC model predicts hospitals will need 1,453 ventilators at peak.

Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D.

wormmaps

A quick thread about the evidence base for this claim about Ebola, which is perhaps troubling (1/4)https://twitter.com/OIEAnimalHealth/status/1265998821466742785 The 2014 outbreak in West Africa, the largest to date, was traced back

Naren Menon

NarenMenon1

DOE working to lease out 23 MMbbl of Strategic Petroleum Reserve capacityhttp://www.worldoil.com/news/2020/4/14/doe-working-to-lease-out-23-mmbbl-of-strategic-petroleum-reserve-capacity#.XpaDbFVnDGM.twitter "......negotiating with nine companies

Chris Arnade 🐢

Chris_arnade

There are two columns that frame the Open-up vs Stay quarantined debate basically in my Front vs Back row framework, although they call it differently (Overclass, protected, etc)I wish I

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

I'm getting asked more about the 'k' parameter that describes variation in the reproduction number, R (i.e. describes superspreading). But what does this parameter actually mean? A short statistical thread...

Tom Angell 🌳📰ⓥ

tomangell

JUST IN: 10 senators, led by @SenJackyRosen and @RonWyden, sent a letter urging the body’s leadership to include relief for marijuana businesses in the next round of coronavirus legislation.https://www.marijuanamoment.net/senators-want-marijuana-busi

Tom Broome-Jones 🇮🇹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏳️‍🌈

TBroomey

I would like to publicly voice my displeasure with Campus Living Villages (@clv_uk), and how they have handled payment for student accommodation in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. As

Kenny Baas-Schwegler

kenny_baas

Some afterthought about last nights @virtualDDD with @EvelynvanKelle @NesSchwegler and @malk_zameth about how Cognitive bias and ranking kills your modelling session:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djbbZnOIGE0A thread...1/10 There was one question un

Zeynab N.

TheVisualPoems

What's happening in Kurdistan and what you can do about it: On June 14th 2020, Turkey has started the operation "Claw-Eagle" in the Kurdistan Region in Northern Iraq claiming it

angela raffle

angelaraffle

@CMO_England @FPH @uksciencechief @SMC_London @muirgray @PHE_Screening @AllysonPollock @IndependentSage -whole thread-The UK has 20+ years’ experience delivering evidence-based, systematic, high quality screening programmes, delivering mo

Second Corinthians Chapter Twelve Verse Nine

DavidWamambo

Beloveds I present to you the Face of Cognitive Dissonance in the form of Thabo Mbeki.A Thread: DescriptionThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki is a South African politician who served as the second

Star Simpson

starsandrobots

Seeing transit authorities leap at the decadally-occurring opportunity to fix infrastructure given the relative traffic quiet is one of the few items in my “small joys during quarantine” quiver.https://twitter.com/myburbanknews/status/125429581193395

Ryan Bourne

MrRBourne

The debate about schools reopening is important given the potential economic benefits and public health risks at stake. So it's a shame that 3 bad applications of economics underpin the

Youth Ki Awaaz

YouthKiAwaaz

Picture this. You go to work, like you always do, and you find out about the #COVID19 outbreak. You’ve lost your livelihood. That’s exactly what happened to millions of wage