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environmental & development economist. post-doc at Mannheim University. I put garlic & onions in everything I cook. 🇧🇷 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱
Mar 28, 2020 9 tweets 4 min read
Será que milhões de pessoas no Brasil já foram infectadas pelo #coronavirus, e estamos perto de atingir "herd immunity"?

Não. Provavelmente temos 14k-45k infectados no Brasil.

Mas tem gente (erradamente) citando um estudo de Oxford para justificar o fim da #quarantena.

fio 👇 Primeiro: eu não sou epidemiologista, e tomo remédio contra #DKE1: leio tudo o que posso sobre o assunto e falo o mínimo que consigo.

"O cara" no momento é o @AdamJKucharski (sigam ele).

Vou tentar colocar em português o que ele explica nessa matéria:
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Aug 2, 2019 13 tweets 6 min read
Deforestation in the Amazon is back in the spotlight, thanks to bad new figures and disastrous responses from the Bolsonaro. This week's cover of @TheEconomist was about that.

Having done work on deforestation, I'd like to share some thoughts on the latest news. Thread. @TheEconomist First, the numbers (which The Economist story lacks): This graph by @hertonescobar in today's @sciencemagazine summarizes why we are talking about this.

In Jul/19, deforestation doubled-tripled compared to July of the past 3 years.

This is terrible. But it's not the whole story