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Rachel Wendte

rkwendte

I love online learning. It’s my job. I think people offering quality courses online right now are great and you can learn a lot. ~but~I caution anyone to think critically

Ashley T. Rubin, Penal Scientist

ashleytrubin

The way we think about trends is broken and it's affecting our reaction to COVID-19. We can learn from the research on prison history and mass incarceration. THREAD! Point 1:

Derek Thompson

DKThomp

A dark week, but here are four pieces of good news on the COVID-front.1) There's a growing consensus that COVID reinfection is unlikely. Immunity probably doesn't disappear after a few

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

From Aug 2020 to Mar 2021, the lagged case fatality rate (CFR) of the US #COVID19 epidemic had remained largely constant at ~1.5% and provided a simple method to predict

The Pe@cock

OdeleyeWole

As the years go by, I find myself paying close attention to the concept of privilege and how it manifests inform of unconscious bias. I grew up in a fairly

Elina Ribakova

elinaribakova

1/ Bold and appropriate move. South Africa’s @SAReserveBank cuts 100bps at an emergency meeting. Next meeting on 21 ‘May is still on. Inflation is subdued, real rate still positive at

Caroline - Real Feminists XX 🇿🇦🇬🇧

radicalhag

This is the core debate to me:TRAs: Trans women are women, and no debate. Therefore anyone who says they're not (or worse, that they're men) is misgendering, misrespecting their gender

Tomas Pueyo

tomaspueyo

People talk about the effect of official lockdowns vs. citizen decisions on the transmission rate of the #coronavirus . I really like the combination of these 2 graphs:Here we can

10-K Diver

10kdiver

1/Get a cup of coffee.In this thread, I'll help you understand 401(k)s -- and other portfolios that are continuously rebalanced between stocks and bonds. 2/Imagine that you just graduated from

alan drummond

alandrummond2

Covid-19 and the Older Emergency Physician @CAEP_Docs In our March 20th statement on Health Human Resources during the COVID pandemic, we acknowledged that physicians over the age of 60 were

Matt Mackall

mpmselenic

So a lot of you are sharing the projections from IHME (https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america). I want to draw your attention to a very optimistic assumption in their modeling.1/ Let's look at this

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

A primer (journalists, part written for you) on false positives and why you should (a) know about them but (b) feel confident the system does the right thing for them

Christopher Schmidt

crschmidt

Using the daily MA State COVID reports, I've made a graph comparing the daily "Total Molecular Tests", by date to their previous released day, to get a sense of "What

C. J.

uwandulu

It’s not perfect but it is an amazing country....you honestly don’t know the half of it until you have lived and experienced it. The response plan, the risk analysis and

Rima Majed

rima_majed

1/ They blew up Beirut... literally, and deliberately. Yes, deliberately. They blew it up, and blew our hearts with it. #Beirut #Lebanon 2/ Beirut was already transforming at a fast

Annie Bellet

anniebellet

Yes.The social determinants of health are far greater than anything within our individual power.We've all been sold a lie for years that if we eat "right" and exercise and whatever,