2/There's a huge tangle of sometimes conflicting information about coronavirus. How can we make sense of it?
Read this Andy Slavitt thread to find out how to stay calm and reasonable and well-informed amidst the madness:
Read this Andy Slavitt thread to find out how to stay calm and reasonable and well-informed amidst the madness:
3/Which activities are riskier? Which are safer?
A helpful infographic:
A helpful infographic:
4/A national failure of unprecedented proportions.
5/Remember, indoors is more dangerous than outdoors. Unmasked is far more dangerous than masked.
6/Deaths are climbing again
7/Florida continues to be bad at reporting data
8/Women are at the core of the coronavirus research effort.
9/Another example of how comprehensively and thoroughly the United States has failed in the face of this pandemic.
10/BUT, at least most of us are wearing our masks!!
11/Should we reopen schools in the fall?
12/It's hard to have good institutions when you have insanely bad leadership.
13/Remember, death is not the only bad outcome from this disease.
14/Another article on whether it's safe to send kids back to school.
15/We were incredibly slow to ramp up testing. By the time we did, the virus was out of control.
Comprehensive national failure.
Comprehensive national failure.
16/What do we know about T-cell immunity?
Less than news articles may lead you to believe.
But we're learning!
Less than news articles may lead you to believe.
But we're learning!
17/That super-viral thread with 34,000 retweets by a tech guy that claims to explain falling death rates?
It was armchair epidemiology. And it was very misleading.
It was armchair epidemiology. And it was very misleading.
18/In-person church services spread coronavirus.
19/What we do and don't know about immunity to COVID.
Short version: We don't know nearly enough yet.
Short version: We don't know nearly enough yet.
20/Deaths climbing in Houston.
21/We still don't know what D614G does.
22/Forsythia is still around, I see.
23/Arizona is doing incredibly badly.
24/WOW! We are getting a LOT better at treating the most severe COVID patients!!
25/This epidemiological model predicts 3800-5000 more deaths per week over the upcoming month.
26/A fun post about the logistics of vaccines.
27/An important thread about how to increase testing.
28/Sweden: The Control Group
29/Why is Arizona such a giant flaming disaster?
30/Monoclonal antibody treatments may be on the way sooner than you think.
31/The risk of getting coronavirus from surfaces is small.
