More than three million cases of coronavirus have been confirmed around the world
Of those, more than 840,000 have recovered so far, while 210,000+ have diedhttps://t.co/XZbxHrNZTx pic.twitter.com/o6lT1T9F7h
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 28, 2020
US tops 1 million #coronavirus cases, according to Johns Hopkins U. Pandemic has claimed 57000+ US lives & leads the world in confirmed infections at 1,002,498, according to the institution's latest count. Image: Hopkins' case distribution https://t.co/K4v64I9SHc pic.twitter.com/Ox3j6SmE6h
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) April 29, 2020
We're all getting a good sense of the many ways states differ in responding to #COVID19
It turns out there's also a fair amount of variation in state rules pertaining to visitors, staff testing & PPE for nursing home & assisted living facilities.
— Tricia Neuman (@tricia_neuman) April 28, 2020
This graphic shows how the cumulative number of estimated U.S. covid deaths projected by the model have changed through the various updates. The latest 4/27 update to the model shows another increase in the projection for median cumulative deaths to 74,073. pic.twitter.com/pgDKhiCOif
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) April 28, 2020
As some states lift virus restrictions, a new poll finds a potential hurdle to keeping new cases down. A Gallup-West Health Healthcare Costs Survey found about 1 in 10 adults say cost would keep them from seeking care if they thought they were infected. https://t.co/5zRAgHVEDi
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) April 28, 2020
Seriously good, short read:
Great interview with @CT_Bergstrom. ‘There is no absolute truth': an infectious disease expert on Covid-19, misinformation and 'bullshit' https://t.co/HjbmrEJh0g
— Marc Lipsitch (@mlipsitch) April 29, 2020
… We’re all used to verbal bullshit. We’re all used to campaign promises and weasel words, and we’re pretty good at seeing through that because we’ve had a lot of practice. But as the world has become increasingly quantified and the currency of arguments has become statistics, facts and figures and models and such, we’re increasingly confronted, even in the popular press, with numerical and statistical arguments. And this area’s really ripe for bullshit, because people don’t feel qualified to question information that’s given to them in quantitative form.
Are there bullshit narratives about the coronavirus that you are concerned about right now?
What’s happened with this pandemic that we’re not accustomed to in the epidemiology community is that it’s been really heavily politicized. Even when scientists are very well-intentioned and not trying to support any side of the narrative, when they do work and release a paper it gets picked up by actors with political agendas.
Whether it’s talking about seroprevalence or estimating the chance that this is even going to come to the United States at all each study gets picked up and placed into this little political box and sort of used as a cudgel to beat the other side with.
So even when the material isn’t being produced as bullshit, it’s being picked up and used in the service of that by overstating its claims, by cherry-picking the information that’s out there and so on. And I think that’s kind of the biggest problem that we’re facing…
% who agree the economy should reopen even if covid-19 is not fully contained.
Lower than you’d expect.Russia 60%
China 58%
Italy 53%
India 51%
Germany 50%
US 35%
Australia 32%
UK 23%-Ipsos
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) April 28, 2020
It helps if your nation is effectively cut off from the world by elimination of air travel. South Korea, Australia, NZ — none have land borders (unless you count the Korean DMZ as "crossable"). This makes #COVID19 control a 100% domestic problem. https://t.co/Wr7aM0rJ3P
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) April 28, 2020
1/2 This is something we've been discussing for some time: Evidence from China shows while manufacturing has restarted, consumer activity hasn't rebounded. Partly it's reduced consumer confidence, but people are also afraid of viral spread and staying home https://t.co/nJXkovUE6g
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) April 28, 2020
After months of successfully controlling its coronavirus outbreak, Singapore has seen thousands of new cases — including more than 1,400 new cases in a single day.
Here’s how the coronavirus came surging back in Singapore. https://t.co/8ExU8SPILd
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 29, 2020
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