#Covid

Irene Gentle

IreneGentle

Thread: Can we talk about messaging amid a pandemic? It should be clear and consistent. Has ours been clear and consistent in Canada? It has not, not everywhere. Does it

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

nntaleb

It is remarkable that you have idiots like this "Prof" @BallouxFrancois who conflate additive risks with multiplicative ones (fat tailed), a mistake your grandmother wouldn't make.https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/129

Trinh

Trinhnomics

Now that we've gone through China soft data (don't forget that this is month over month so we're still behind pre Covid esp employment), let's look at USA Covid data.

Cherie Antoinette

sheriantoinette

Someone sent me a video of an investigative nurse on the frontlines, asking about the validity of the footage. In the video the MD is heard arguing with the dayshift

Kristin Rawls

kristinrawls

Are people still doing takeout?I'm not. Stopped two weeks ago altogether, when I heard a doctor on one of those corona podcasts say he wouldn't, if health (as opposed to

Ciaran Jenkins

C4Ciaran

Susan is a home carer.She feeds, bathes and toilets the elderly in their homes. Today half her clients had #COVID.She takes two buses to collect PPE. On her day off.

Emily Deans MD 👻

evolutionarypsy

Really interesting (follows up on the case of two sets of brothers with severe COVID-19)https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/hidden-immune-weakness-found-14-gravely-ill-covid-19-patients We produce interferons in response to infections.

Wes Pegden

WesPegden

I talk a lot about the mistake people make thinking it is always safer to err on the side of extreme action.Here is a simple thought experiment to illustrate this

Rohini Lakshané (Rohini @ Mastodon.social)

aldebaran14

Thoughts based on my study: What’s happening with Covid-19 mobile apps in India now is the same kind of mess that happened with personal safety tech interventions 7 to 8

⛑LynnFynn🇺🇸 🌱👩🏽‍⚕️🧬💊🥼

LynnFynn3

1) “We must all fight and, if necessary, die to teach people the truth.”Part of me didn’t even want to share this. There are a great many thousands of people

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Urgent @US_FDA @CDCgov #AndWhoeverWillListenRapid paper strip tests can be extremely powerful public health toolsBut they cannot just be introduced without major information campaign AND clear algorithm for use - like

UVW_Designers + Cultural Workers

UVW_DCW

Having looked at the responses so far from our COVID-19 Studio Rent Freeze survey https://airtable.com/shrj5r2B2SzCi3z1e, here are our urgent demands to art studio providers across the UK [thread]: 1. All

Katherine J. Wu, Ph.D.

KatherineJWu

There's no perfect panacea to the nation's testing crisis, but one oft-talked-about strategy is frequent, fast, cheap at-home testing. Lots of really interesting pros and cons to this 1/12https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/health/ra

Los Angeles Times

latimes

Of the 20 most populous cities in the U.S., San Francisco has the lowest death rate per capita from COVID-19. If the entire country had followed the city’s approach, says

trying to keep my balance

alexjzucker

"This Wednesday, Czech officials reported a new record number of daily coronavirus infections, with nearly 4,500 new cases. As of right now, that is the fastest spread of the virus

sketchy lady

into_the_brush

I live in Seattle, I have all symptoms of COVID-19 and have a history of chronic bronchitis. Since I work in a physical therapy clinic with many 65+ patients and