#Virus

Dr Nisreen Alwan 🌻

Dr2NisreenAlwan

The narrative that people catch #COVID19 through carelessness is harmful. People are getting mixed up between population-based measures to reduce population incidence and individual risk.No one is careful enough to

Robert Somynne

RobertJSomynne

UK govt introduces tracing contact app 10,000 deaths in to COVID19 crisis. South koreans had it done between Jan 20 and Feb 4. This is the thing. It was unforgivable

Josh Dawsey

jdawsey1

Giuliani is extensively promoting experimental coronavirus treatments, talking to the president several times in recent weeks about them. He has criticism for Fauci and others skeptical of the drugs. Latest

Dr-Leonardi Translate Bot

LeonardiBot

Good evening humans. I'm making an exception to my @fitterhappieraj-only rule and have translated this important thread by @VirusesImmunity. I explain all terminology as you read, so you may want

Seth Mandel

SethAMandel

Like a great many, I hate the 'dying of' vs 'dying with' distinction ppl are trying to draw for the purposes of downplaying covid. (I obviously don't mind the actual

Midwestern Hedgie

MidwestHedgie

If 20% of New Yorkers have been infected so far, 14,427 deaths on 8.4 million people would imply an IFR of 0.86%. That's wildly worse than what Fauci or I

Richard Zussman

richardzussman

BREAKING - Dr. Bonnie Henry says there have been 63 new cases of COVID19 over the last two days. 26 new cases Saturday and 37 on Sunday. There are now

Professor Karol Sikora

ProfKarolSikora

Social distancing works.The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine estimate that before the lockdown one positive person would infect 2.6 other people.Now it's just 0.62.This means the virus is

The American Independent

AmerIndependent

In the footage he released of his 60 Minutes interview, Trump complains about getting tough questions and Lesley Stahl reminds him that he is president of the United States. Trump

Oluwatosin Adeshokan

theOluwatosin

The reality of poverty in Nigeria is scary, consuming and intense. Add this lockdown to it and people are prepared to die from the virus because they have mouths to

el gato malo

boriquagato

this is going to be the key issue to focus on: the new spike in EU cases is not leading to a spike in deaths.there seem to be several possible

Unathi Kwaza

Unathi_Kwaza

Wears losing R15 billion everyday die to this lockdown. Seriously, what difference will two extra weeks do in the so called fight against corona virus? Yet, @CyrilRamaphosa is willing to

David Halbfinger

halbfinger

THREAD: Bnei Brak's 210k ultra-Orthodox live 8-12 to a 700-sq-ft avg apartment. Their lives revolve around crowded, ritual group activity: prayer 3x a day, study in yeshivas. They shun the

Carole Cadwalladr

carolecadwalla

Why does the Cummings story matter? And what does it obscure? The real story is the huge transfer of government assets to private companies that he is overseeing under cover

The SNP

theSNP

First Minister @NicolaSturgeon: "I want to particularly acknowledge people working in our food and drink and essential retail sectors. This is not an easy time to work in agriculture, or

Senator John Cornyn

JohnCornyn

By themselves, the number of tests don't tell us much. CDC says "not everyone needs to be tested for COVID-19," https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/testing.htmlgoing. "Most people have mild illness and are ab