Thread by @KrisSigurdson

Who should you follow for info on #Coronavirus?

Here is a list of people I am following who have enriched my understanding of the medical, public health, and economic impacts of #COVID19 in the #US and #Canada.

I’d love to hear who you are following. Please share! 1/14

I’ve provided a brief description and rationale for each follow. You can subscribe to my list here: twitter.com/i/lists/123708…

I strongly suggest you also follow public health orgs/officials like @NIAIDNews @CDCgov and @CPHO_Canada and local agencies or news outlets you trust. 2/14

Trevor Bedford @trvrb is a professor at @UW using computational biology and genomics to understand the spread of COVID-19 in Washington State and elsewhere. His research has allowed me to understand the virus' spread in the absence of solid testing data. 3/14

Helen Branswell @HelenBranswell is an infectious disease/public health reporter whose career launched during Toronto’s SARS outbreak in 2003. She tweets and retweets all kinds of valuable stories, charts, and infographics about the virus - sometimes 10-20 per day. 4/14

Balaji Srinivasan @balajis is an entrepreneur/angel/ex-VC who absorbs, critiques and shares as much information on COVID-19 as anyone I follow. More importantly, he hypothesizes from and pushes on what he’s reading, giving predictions on what might happen next. 5/14

Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton is a professor at @JohnsHopkins focused on improving outbreak preparedness. She writes concisely about safeguarding people at scale, and how and why public health organizations should respond in different ways to prepare our communities. 6/14

Scott Gottlieb @ScottGottliebMD is ex-commish at @US_FDA, VC at @NEA and contributor on TV spots about the virus. He balances the line between sternly warning of danger and inciting panic. He is critical of weak govt. responses but also constructive in recommending plans. 7/14

Liz Specht @LizSpecht is A.D. at @GoodFoodInst w/ a PhD in biology. She was the first person I found to write cogently about the risks of future systemic healthcare failure in the US due to lagging testing and a lax attitude towards the exponential epidemic properties. 8/14

Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing is an epidemiologist and health economist at @Harvard. His feed is a ruthless firehose of quality information: international, domestic, quantitative, qualitative, policy and hard science. 9/14

Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh is a leading deeptech VC at @Lux_Capital & prolific contrarian tweeter. He has a wide field of vision for outlier ideas and economic implications. He hypothesizes on the frontiers of what is possible and shares best guesses (risking being wrong). 10/14

Jason Kindrachuk @KindrachukJason is a Canada Research Chair at @umanitoba working on molecular pathogenesis of emerging viruses. I use his tweets and commentary on retweets to identify and evaluate the quality of news and science coming out of Canada, where I live. 11/14

Florian Krammer @florian_krammer is a professor of applied virology at @IcahnMountSinai. His feed is decidedly more international than most I follow, providing insights and research results from countries in Europe/Asia that have been studying this longer than we have. 12/14

Tara Smith @aetiology is an infectious disease epidemiologist running an emerging infections lab at @KentState she retweets from a range of high quality sources and published a smart article on where to get accurate coronavirus news: self.com/story/accurate… 13/14

Nassim Taleb @nntaleb is an essayist, statistician, and professor at @nyuniversity. He writes often about the probabilities of extreme events, specifically how societies might be re-engineered to better brace their consequences. He does not BS. 14/14

UPDATE: I’ve received 100s of suggestions of people to add to the #Coronavirus info list. I’ve done my best to review each and I’ve added 10 new people who add unique value and overlap as little as possible with others.

twitter.com/i/lists/123708…

Bios & rationales below. 15/25

Nicholas Christakis @NAChristakis is a physician, professor, and Director of the HumanNatureLab.net at @Yale. His posts focus on how human nature and our habits and environments of interaction with others influence the spread of the virus. 16/25

Silvia Stringhini @silviast9 has a PhD in epidemiology & public health and works at @unige_en in #Geneva. She translated the experience of an Italian doctor (Dr. Daniele Macchini) who has been on the front line of the outbreak, sharing dramatic details of #Italy's response. 17/25

Marc Lipsitch @mlipsitch is an infectious disease epidemiologist and microbiologist at @Harvard. He’s a leading expert that almost all of the other experts on my list follow (75% of them). His feed has a slight tendency towards virus news relevant to #Boston, his home. 18/25

Farzad Mostashari @Farzad_MD is ex-Nat. Coord. for US Health IT & CEO of healthcare startup @AledadeACO. His feed is eclectic and escapes succinct description: includes everything from policy for hotel chains to constructive critiques of media portrayals and govt responses. 19/25

Paul Graham @paulg is an investor & founder of @ycombinator. He has wickedly sharp business judgement (in particular for startups) and a great filter for quality content. I suspect his writing will be increasingly valuable as we piece back together the knowledge economy. 20/25

Maia Majumder @maiamajumder is faculty at @Harvard's @Bos_CHIP. Her PhD in computational epidemiology focused on previous strains of coronavirus (#SARS/#MERS). She posts sensible, heartfelt recommendations & is careful to highlight effects on the disadvantaged/marginalized. 21/25

Ian Bremmer @ianbremmer is a political scientist focused on foreign affairs & political risk. His tweets are short (mostly), funny (sometimes!) & to the point. He synthesizes factors affecting the political landscape beyond #COVID19: oil prices, foreign elections, etc. 22/25

Ian Mackay @MackayIM is a virologist & professor at @UQMedicine. If you are in #Australia you should definitely follow him. Even if not, he's a fantastic science communicator and his range of (re)tweets of virus findings from around the world makes him a great follow. 23/25

Christina Farr @chrissyfarr is a health and tech reporter at @CNBC. Her feed is less technical/scientific than most on this list, but the info is easy to digest. She speaks to/interviews a lot of people in big tech adding a perspective that is valuable and unique. 24/25

Zeynep Tufekci @zeynep is a professor at @UNC and a writer for @NYTimes, @TheAtlantic and others. Her energy focuses on holding leaders and governments accountable for their outbreak response and ethics. She takes on everyone: #China, #Trump, #ElonMusk, you name it. 25/25