#Outbreak

Vasundhara Sirnate

vsirnate

I’m starting a thread to document how the #COVID19 pandemic has enabled the passing of legislations that impinge on citizens’ democratic freedoms globally, or allow the executive to assume disproportionate

Vidya

VidyaKrishnan

Jumping in midway through the conference because.. Dr Vinod Paul (NITI Aayog) has made an appearance today! I think we have @nit_set & Kumar Sambhav Srivastava to thank for this.

EFF

EFF

For COVID-19 contact tracing technology, proximity-only apps (based on Bluetooth) are more privacy-preserving than apps that use location (based on GPS or cell tower data). States and public health authorities

Vincent Grossmann-Wirth

VinceGW

The @ecb published today the "Euro money market study 2020", a #Eurosystem analysis on money markets based on #MMSR granular dataset. This is the most detailed publication on the #euro

Roxanne Khamsi

rkhamsi

THREAD--> For weeks, I've been tracking the scientific debate about whether we need masks to prevent transmission of the virus causing #COVID19 and whether it is #airborne. If you're confused,

Michael L Bonic

BonicMichael

In the ABC TV Series Lost there was the Dharma Initiative research projectThe Rise and Fall of the Dharma Initiativehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nTzMPUb5CAE&feature=share“Not long after the experiments began, there was an incident.”[Dr. Marvin

Margot Sanger-Katz

sangerkatz

After much Upshot consideration, we have decided that the best way to track coronavirus in the U.S. is by looking at what’s happening in metro areas. So we bring you

Christian Christensen

ChrChristensen

1) How do regional factors impact Sweden's #COVID19 deaths?Stockholm (pop 2.4m): 897 dead = 374 per milRest of Sweden (pop 7.8m): 614 dead = 79 per milSo, Sweden minus Stockholm

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

The "contact tracing" apps don't do "contact tracing" - they do "exposure notification." Contact tracing is a labor-intensive shoe-leather process built on relationships and it is stubbornly resistant to au

Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

xandvt

Why this particular phase of the UK response so infuriating and frustrating? I think it’s because it increasingly feels like a pantomime of public health The current guidelines aren’t real

Dr Eleanor Janega

GoingMedieval

I am the god damn plague/Renaissance police and I will be issuing citations anytime I see these takes on the TL. No. Absolutely not. I rebuke all of this. In

Kushal Kumar Sinha

KushalSinha001

So how are state police protecting their personnel from #COVID? What measures have been taken to ensure the smooth functioning of the police force, which has to be active at

Sarah Rasmussen

SarahDRasmussen

School closures + bad science (THREAD)Remember that 6 Apr Lancet C&AH systematic review on school closures--with that media-amplified "2-4%" statistic--by a UCL team led by RCPCH president + SAGE member

BBC News (UK)

BBCNews

How to get some during lockdownIf you’re struggling to sleep since the coronavirus restrictions were brought in, you are not aloneThousands have shared their tales of sleepless nights -

Prof Nic Cheeseman

Fromagehomme

Let’s get this straight. There is really low support for almost all the protests against lockdown + really high support for #COVIDー19 restrictions. A few people standing outside some government

John Tedesco

John_Tedesco

1/ Another story about the importance of public data during a crisis: COVID-19 outbreaks at nursing homes raise questions about transparency, safety of elderly residents: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Nursing-hom