#Deaths

I had an amazing, thoughtful, long conversation this week with @kurtstreeter @nytimes about the disaster that has been this @nfl season. Here's his great piece (also with insights from @EricTopol)
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Gov. JB Pritzker will have a coronavirus update at noon. I'll live tweet.Follow for updates and let me know if you have questions.Coronavirus causing hunger crisis in Chicago:https://blockclubchicago.org/2020/12/23/chicago-is-experienci
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Historian Dr Nomalanga Mkhize provides a history lesson we all need to learn.Nomalanga: The widespread economic impact of the ban on alcohol should scare us. How much of our economy
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this study posits that cov-19 can survive in contagious form for up to 8 days on salmon when kept at temperatures used for cold chain shipment and storage.this is preliminary
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Will Easter be the new Xmas, albeit a thin one? This is the PM's new hope, I'm told. He has privately shared an aspiration to see restrictions begin to ease
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We are seeing cases going up in several places in Europe and theories about why hospitalisation sand deaths are not (yet) being seen in the same numbers as in March.If
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36:48“If I’m wrong I want to be corrected so I can be right next time”- @MichaelYeadon3 Micheal, you have all my admiration. This is a rough transcript (not verbatim) of
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No country on earth has successfully contained Covid-19 without closing nonessential businesses and paying people to stay home. Government intervention is the only way out. Pretending capitalism and personal responsibility
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Earlier the government told media it had 'extended the eviction ban'. The details are out and in fact this is a LIE.@RobertJenrick has given the go ahead to evictions of
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JUST IN: US Chairman of Joint Staff Gen. Mark Milley now at @BrookingsInst: “Our military is very very capable.. we are determined to defend US constitution, no one should doubt
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How should we interpret #COVID19 case counts given the enormous variation in testing? A quick cautionary thread.As everyone knows the # of "confirmed cases" for COVID19 are a small fraction
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New study shows that "secondary attack rates" for asymptomatic carriers of C19 are about .3%. Since you can't have a .3 person, this means that roughly 1/333 people an
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This is a good question. I don't think there will be a reckoning in Germany. To avoid all of this we would have had to act much tougher much faster.
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1. No unity without accountability. "Moving on" the bill of goods sold repeatedly in U.S. to white folks who don't want the discomfort of holding fellow white folks accountable for
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Working on Draft Building Safety Bill. The Regulator can ask the Minister to make regulations on a matter if it would potentially cause a ‘major incident’. Major Incident is defined
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Texas failed to insure against the consequences of a 100 year weather event but insurance costs $. And Texans hate any increase in taxes, fees, or service costs, even when
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