#Cases

Tom McIlroy

TomMcIlroy

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is making a ministerial statement in the House of Representatives. Parliament is sitting today to pass legislation for the $130 billion JobKeeper package. Scott Morrison says

Jonathan Kay

jonkay

In retrospect, not so compellinghttps://twitter.com/Justin_Ling/status/1238540675781660672 Tangent: how much of the Cdn government's fatally bungled approach to COVID-19 was simply a reflexive desire to appear un-trump-esque (even if, ironically,

Kaila Ramsey

k_ramasaurus

.@dcpublicschools released its #ReopenStrong plan & nowhere does it talk about the critical need for COVID testing of all returning staff and students 1/26 This makes us one of the

Mirai

CoeurDeFeu__

Le problème c'est votre peur d'être jugé, votre peur d'être critiqué par les autres. Vous vous enfermez alors dans des luttes qui réduisent l'opinion des autres pour imposer la vôtre.

Gabriel Recchia

mesotronium

Our paper on how well experts and laypeople forecast the size of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK (back in April) is out: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0250935 @d_spiegel @alex_freeman Short answer: Not ve

ice9

__ice9

A plausible mechanism apparently exists for the tendency of COVID-19 to be more severe in patients with type-A/AB blood, compared to B or especially O:Anti-A antibodies (present in types B/O)

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

Bring back the Renaissance Man/Woman, or why "listening to the expert" is not such a good idea although it superficially seems so to all but the technocrats in our times.

Leisy Abrego

AbregoLeisy

I do pro bono expert witness work. This means that I serve as an expert to testify on behalf of asylum seekers going before a judge. The process includes talking

Ebly Pamplemousse 🕷️🐟

E_Pamplemousse

Ah, would that this be true... I've seen tweets from 2 Tory MPs this morning, trying to spin the story.Guess we're finding out (again) who're in the Cummings coterie...https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1263952441080455168

Sucheta Dalal

suchetadalal

Really worrying feedback from young doctors in Mumbai. #ThinkAboutIt they say. No leader or sr bureaucrat wants to visit COVID hospitals in PPE. Even the investigation into #SionHospital episode will

Nick Hudson

NickHudsonCT

Yesterday’s interview of Harvard & Standford professors of medicine @MartinKulldorff, Jay Battacharya & @Mlevitt_NP2013 is the sanest appraisal of the C-19 situation I've heard. I know many won’t have 2

Mahwash Ajaz 🇵🇰

mahwashajaz_

Long thread incoming. I wrote something abt #rape in 2011 which I want to share here. Would you marry a rape victim?A few years ago, I asked that question to

Dr Kevin Purcell

kevinpurcell

Hong Kong University has a “real-time” with a plot of R effective measured every day!That’s impressive.Plotted on the same time axis as the case plots below so you can match

Jack

Jac5Connor

This is fascinating, the WHO's wrote a paper in 2019 on non-pharmaceutical methods for how to stop a pandemic.With two months of the pandemic behind us, we can see from

Molly Lambert 🦔

mollylambert

so the “three more months” order is confusingly, not an official order yet as we reach the end of the first official lockdown California cases are spiking again beyond projections

Chandra "Smash The Curve" Duggirala M.D

csentropy

Here is an often overlooked fact about our health care system and how it relates to the Covid Panic News Cycle. A thread 1. Almost all the doctors I spoke