#Outbreak

Nico Pitney

nicopitney

In Jan 2017, a week before Trump takes office, Obama staffers run a pandemic response exercise for incoming senior Trump cabinet officials that warns of critical shortages of PPE, ventilators,

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

This is exactly the problem. Not only is pillar 2 data not available publicly, it's also not available to local authorities, making it impossible to identify what's causing this outbreak,

Nadine White

Nadine_Writes

NEW from me: "That plastic screen is to stop crackheads from stabbing me – it’s not going to stop the coronavirus". Bus drivers risking coronavirus say they have been cast

Heath Mayo

HeathMayo

Here’s the problem with the “blame the protesters” COVID excuse: if that were the cause here, we’d see equivalent spikes in NYC, DC, Chicago, & other urban areas. We don’t.

Hillel Neuer

HillelNeuer

World Health Organization expert advisor Jaime Metzl: "The most likely starting point of the coronavirus crisis is an accidental leak from the Chinese virology institute in Wuhan.” He believes researchers

Unity Demands Liz #WarrenForVP 🔬💻 🥁🤝 🗽🤝🌹

ralphafold

In a remarkable turn of events after more viral genomes are sequenced (samples got 23 & Me'd) in WA, new data suggest that the #COVID19 outbreak in WA did not

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

I’m going to do a delayed update on a tweet from 9/11 that sparked a lot of outrage. Before I start, however, let me give you some data from the

Jordan Schachtel

JordanSchachtel

Instead of saving our healthcare system, lockdown appears to be rapidly crippling our overall healthcare institutions.Anywhere non COVID-19 getting crushed. 0 revenue.Private practices shuttering. Many hospitals empty. 90+% procedures canceled.

Diana L.

desundial

How the heck do we really think this @CUBoulder reopening is going to work @Boulder?https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1288974223378178048 Berkeley shifted gears after 47 #COVID19 cases linked to parties at greeks in late June

Nigel Marriott

MarriottNigel

When is a #COVID19 trend real or not?If real, do we need to reimpose restrictions in area X?Answering this is not easy especially when a wrong answer leads to false

balajis.com

balajis

Thread with thoughts on the (still small?) new outbreak in China, as well as how they're adapting to a post-corona world.First, the Harbin outbreak is claimed to have been triggered

Nils Gilman

nils_gilman

If you want to understand why Northern Italy ended up the first western epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, this is the place to starthttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/16/the-chinese-workers-who-assemble-designer-bags-in-tuscany A geographic

Timothy Gowers

wtgowers

I want to say a little bit more about @joel_c_miller's point below, and explain why, like several more knowledgeable people I follow (such as @nataliexdean), I am sceptical about the

Dhaval

isdhaval

There was a society, very scientific but some what religious in an area. People used to feel proud that their idea of dharma is in line with their pre-established notions

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Folks—WH’s defense strategy failed miserably—we epidemiologists think it was a silent asymptotical carrier who evaded the WH testing fence around Trump. But they relied on just that one single fence

✝️Stephanie#blacklivesmatter

Stephie2010

I was just listening to an episode of democracynow and this guy was talking about how if ppl during the spanish flu epidemic of 1918 had followed all the guidelines