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Col Hunny Bakshi, VSM

colhunnybakshi

GM,v r fine now, it was tough, but not challenging, putting below the advice of my DrAny COVID related Symptom Isolate at Home.If Positive - Don't Panic, u may not

Emma Woodhouse 😁

EWoodhouse7

The fine print on the City of Chicago new COVID19 dashboard view: % positivity says rate test counts include MULTIPLE TESTS FOR THE SAME PERSON. This matters, b/c the city/county

Mike Gibbs🏳️‍🌈

Mikeggibbs

A lot of people still don't grasp the enormity of the Covid19 threat. Why we have no choice but to take drastic measures.One person tweeted this rates nowhere close to

gary

gporter812

“Covid-19 caused death” and “Covid-19 is assumed to have caused or contributed to death” are two very different descriptions; yet, they are apparently included under the same phrase of “Covid-19

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

Wrote about why India likely has 25K+ deaths dailyPushback: we lack hard data on crematoriums so we can't be sureTrueBut we get 25K+ deaths no matter how you lookAnother approach:400,000

Disappointed Optimist

disappoptimism

There is nothing stopping you, yourself from going back to work other than:1) your employers guidance 2) whether or not you want toSo if you’re on twitter telling everyone they

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

Finally, an antibody test in a high-prevalence area (NYC)!21% of New Yorkers infected + 1% death rate = 17,600 deathsThat's not too far off from the 15,400 reported by the

Achmat X

AchmatX

Both pictures are from today. One is from the park in Harlem, the other is from the park in West Village. Guess which neighborhood has police enforcing social distancing? “Playgrounds

James Wilson

jamewils

I just made a comparison of confirmed cases, tests done, % of confirmed cases wrt tests done & tests done per million of population between 4 major South States and

Jerm

mynameisjerm

The data keeps confirming that COVID-19 is barely worse than the flu.On 19 May, Dr John Ioannidis (et al) published their review of global cases, which found lethality ranging between

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

OK, quick thread on the 3 major types of statistical issues in seroprevalence studies—that is, studies that try to figure out how many people had COVID-19, like the one released

Steven Hamilton

SHamiltonian

There continues to be confusion about the unemployment rate. To my mind, the only number that matters is the unemployment rate when the economy is open again and/or the virus

Jason Pitre

Genesisoflegend

Let's have a quick thread to talk about freelance pay rates per-word, anchored on some realistic numbers. Let's assume that someone can consistently write 1000 words of quality text in

Mark R. Levin

marklevinshow

1. I thought Gates favored a national shutdown. Now he says the death rate will be less than predicted. For weeks I’ve questioned these predictions, and for weeks the leftwing

Heath Mayo

HeathMayo

COVID arrived in the US on January 13. Wednesday is May 13.That’s four months. Four months to figure things out, to communicate a plan, & to get testing & tracing

Edson

EdsonCGuido

Let's talk about testing.3 million in total were conducted in the Philippines since the pandemic began. But is that enough?A thread. From around 13k per day in June, testing doubled