1/What better to do on a Friday night, than curl up by the space heater with a nice copy of:
Coronavirus Tweets From the Experts, 5/15/2020
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Coronavirus Tweets From the Experts, 5/15/2020
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2/Let's start out with Wachter's Covid Chronicles
3/More antibody studies, this time in Boston
4/And a Slavitt thread, giving the state of coronavirus policy (it's not so great folks):
5/Perhaps the biggest surprise of this pandemic was the utter crumbling of the once-vaunted Center for Disease Control
6/Doh
7/I still can't believe that Georgia released a graph with the dates reordered to make it look like cases are declining. That's some Chernobyl-level stuff, right there.
8/Why I think "flatten the curve" was awful rhetoric from day 1.
9/The biology of the coronavirus
10/Mixing antibody tests in with PCR tests in order to make it look like you're doing more testing is bad
11/There's that George Box quote about models, again!
12/Seems like a bad move by the FDA
13/"We tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away”
- Camus
- Camus
14/Big conflict of interest on that Stanford antibody study that got everyone riled up
15/Remember, coronavirus tests can have false negatives.
16/Not quite clear how the Control Group (states that reopened early) is doing yet.
17/Was a person in Washington state infected with coronavirus back in 2019? Maaaaaybe, but Trevor Bedford has his doubts.
18/The question you all want the answer to
19/If you want to know how safe various activities and locations are, there's no better expert to follow than Muge Cevik. Also, no better name.
20/The U.S. pandemic response has been startlingly, astonishingly bad. There's just no way to put lipstick on this pig.
21/Cytokine storms were also a big problem in Spanish Flu!
22/Yes, people develop immunity after they get COVID-19.
23/Trump pushing a vaccine before it's safe could be bad news.
24/Some good news about a coronavirus vaccine candidate
25/An epidemiologist helps explain the limits of epidemiological models.
26/Thread. Think Trump and his administration are up to the challenge of properly testing, manufacturing, and distributing a vaccine?
Sleep tight!
Sleep tight!
27/Why is this coronavirus so virulent? This could be one reason.
28/Should you worry about Kawasaki Disease? It does make your flesh fall off, and that sucks. But here's an argument that perhaps you shouldn't be *so* worried.
29/Did Ionannidis' shaky antibody study enable right-wing media to force premature reopenings, or make consumers of right-wing media lax about social distancing?
30/Antibody tests are getting better, yay!
32/I know this is going to blow your minds, but social distancing works
34/Sorry, HCQ fans. Bad news.
35/Human challenge trials!
36/And that's all for today, folks! Come back tomorrow for more pandemic fun!
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