#CORONAVIRUS

Agonisti

agonisti

1/x You'll be hearing a lot about the term "case fatality rate" in COVID-19 discussions. It's the reference indicator often used to compare how lethally bad COVID-19 is relative to

Govind Persad

GovindPersad

I am grateful to @sbagen for forcefully rejecting calls to “revoke” the publication of my "Why Disability Law Permits Evidence-Based Triage in a Pandemic"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3571139 in the @YaleLJournal Forum

Morgan Jaffit

morganjaffit

There was this aussie soap opera called Chances. Basically about a family who win the lottery. A lightly saucy soap, basically.But, things went off the rails. Bad ratings meant a

Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley

lottelydia

I know I keep saying this but — my mum works in a care home, and they have no PPE beyond plastic aprons. How more staff and patients haven’t already

Sarah Mulhern Gross

thereadingzone

I've been teaching in a hybrid model for two weeks now. Two cohorts (A/B) who follow an AA/BB schedule. We are all remote on Wednesdays. Let me tell you- I

ben "limited breadsticks" flores

limitlessjest

LIEUTENANT DANIELSI’m not sending my people out in protective gear purchased with drug money.CLAY DAVISYou want the masks, the gloves, the hand sanitizer? Sheeeeiit. You gotta take the money where

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

I started working with @DoubleDownNews partly because I see them as the future, and partly because BBC News and Current Affairs won't touch these issues (and will scarcely touch me).

Sudipta Saha

shudeepto_saha

I'll keep repeating this again and again, but the pandemic **DOES NOT** affect all equally. Especially to those in Canada, where data remains unavailable and where a provincial Chief Medical

Sam Sanders

samsanders

Whole thing is just is FULL of gems, but my favorite’s gotta be this: “Both days, I added ½ cup of Clorox to my bathwater to combat the radiation and

Joe Murphy

JoeMurphyLondon

BREAKING ....Matt Hancock calling "urgent review" into a staggering fiasco at Public Health England.They are counting people who die of natural causes as coronavirus deaths if they tested positive at

Pradheep J. Shanker

Neoavatara

OH. MY. GOD.This is literally the worst lie on coronavirus this year. And that includes anything said by Donald Trump.The media is M.I.A. on this...why? The incompetene/negligence is quite staggering.https://twitter.com/TrumpJew/status/1311

Sabina Walker 😀 Master Appl Science (Neuroscience

SabinaWalker18

1/x Testing = CasesThis ALSO:(1) #False_Positive PCR results (compared to True Positives)especially if #asymptomatics tested&(2) #NON_infectious cases IF excess Ct cutoffLeads to #erroneous reporting of #NON_infectious

Yinon Weiss

yinonw

A short thread about covid herd immunity. First let's look at New York & Sweden. NY wears masks, closed business, closed schools, and mandates social distancing. Sweden did not but

Melanie D. ⬅️ At Risk ➡️

melulater

#Covid19 coronavirus: Easter crowd at Pāpāmoa Beach, Tauranga, appalls locals.This is not lockdown behaviour people. This is the behaviour that can extend lockdown. BTW, I had to correct the Herald's

Hassan Hassan

hxhassan

A statement to be released by ISIS shortly, either from the new leader or the spokesman (more likely). It was expected given the recent surge in attacks. A new statement

Muge Cevik

mugecevik

PHE surveillance report shows that while the number of infections is increasing mainly in 20-29, 30-39 ages in England, SARS-CoV-2 is spreading most in highly deprived areas - where people