19/n Fact 20: Lockdowns clearly reduce COVID-19 case numbers in the short term. Other government actions can clearly limit case numbers in the long term. There are now numerous exampleshttps://www.devex.com/news/behind-vietnam-s-covid-19-success-story-98257 …
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30/n Fact 30: The UK has had a very large increase in excess mortality this year, orders of magnitude higher than in an average bad influenza seasonpic.twitter.com/TsgrJhQmx6
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31/n Fact 31: COVID-19 reinfections occur. While we do not know the exact rate as of yet, and it may be very low, as time goes on the rate is likely to risehttps://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30764-7/fulltext …
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32/n Fact 32: The WHO estimated that LESS THAN 10% of the world was infected in October, contrary to common mythshttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1315447821814775808?s=19 …
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33/n Fact 33: Many of these facts are about NUANCE and UNCERTAINTY. Often what we DO know is just that we don't know VERY MUCH
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34/n I wrote this thread up as a bit of a bloghttps://gidmk.medium.com/20-facts-about-covid-19-1afbb026bc98 …
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Wow. Just wow.
.... but you stopped at a February Leap Year? Or was that strategic?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Can’t find that fact. „In 2017 to 2019, life expectancy at birth in the UK was 79.4 years for males“ and not 89.12 years.
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Life expectancy at birth =/= life expectancy at age 80. Common misunderstanding
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