#Pandemic

Folks, stop refreshing the forecasts. The comfort you seek isn't there—and can't be. The excessive uncertainty this year–especially about turnout in a pandemic and which votes will count—makes these models
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A #Thread on the beautiful things related to women in 2020. Watching Nanette by Hannah Gadsby.#HappyNewYear The new inheritance law that allows #women their inheritance rights even if they agree
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Thread 1/Sorry, but I think he's doing the right thing. UK's suffering from a deep & lasting Tory Sickness. Needs time to repair, heal, convalesce. Needs to be strong &
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What I’ve learnt from my first half-term as an #NQT Long story short, training to be a teacher and being a teacher is tough during a pandemic (no matter how
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THREAD: The year of 56. Your news is fake and scripted. Wake up!This number has shown up in COUNTLESS stories all year long, and it’s for a reason called Gematria.
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Rough COVID stats in Indiana today. I am working in the ER today and also working w/ dedicated teams to help get us to the other side of this pandemic
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The Detroit Education Research Partnership has 2 new reports out today: 1) Why Do Detroit Students Miss School: Implications for Returning to School After COVID-192) Third Grade Reading and Attendance
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Holyrood Elections 2021 – SNP Record on Devolved Areas A THREAD HEALTH- The new sick kids hospital has had many issues including the ventilation and has been pushed back numerous
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In addition to the deadly COVID pandemic, 2020 was a difficult year for Cyprus with Turkey increasing its provocations and renewing its efforts to permanently partition the island.We want to
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A message to Sydney from Melbourne ---Five things that must be done NOW to stop Covid19 spreading which will save hundreds of lives, hundreds of thousands of jobs and avoid
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#IfICouldTestify @SenEdMcBroom @RepMattHall I'd let the MI govt know that, while working as a poll challenger in Detroit, I watched voters scramble to find their correct poll locations after many
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Since I have a lot of pre-WGA writers in my Twitterverse and it’s the end of the year, I was thinking it might be good to talk about the year-end
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Discussions abt safe ("safe") COVID behavior, even among people who know it's real and dangerous, sometimes feel at odds.It feels like arguing abt "finances" but one person arguing abt adjusting
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Here we plot daily bed occupancy in NHS hospitals in England in 2020 (yellow line) versus a 2017-19 average (pink line), and the number of beds occupied by Covid-19 positive
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Came across this paper that does panel regressions of Y (Covid growth rates) ~ P (adopted polices) + fixed effects. The elementary modeling mistake is not to control for
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There are many possible reasons violent crime has spiked this year. Record unemployment. Social upheaval from a pandemic. Mistrust of police. Mistrust of government. The least likely explanation: defunding the
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