#COVId

Rebecca C. Christofferson 🤯

RC_Epi

Rapid #Covid antigen tests sacrifice sensitivity for cost and ease. this means the rate of false negatives is higher. some points: like all tests, a negative doesn’t mean anything for

BIOSEC Rosaleen Duffy

biosec_erc

Read our open letter on 'Protecting 30% of the planet for nature' which has serious omissions & failures inc marginalisation of rural people, ignores decades of research on social impacts

Courtney Milan 🦖

courtneymilan

I think people want to attribute this to one specific thing—a holiday or a celebration or even Trump’s rallies—and we are seeing consistent exponential growth with a rate of spread

Joel Kirkland

JoelKirkland2

Journalists at @EENewsUpdates and @irworkshop spent a year examining the health of people living around U.S. oil refineries. These communities are sicker and poorer, and often disproportionately Black or Hispanic.

Coalition of Immokalee Workers

ciw

1/ In this next chapter of the pandemic, we must ensure that farmworker communities — arguably among the most essential and most vulnerable worker communities — get early access to

sean brett

BaconKnight

A lot of people have criticized Trump's response to #COVID19 and there are legitimate criticisms. But there is this idea that if Democrats were in power everything would have been

Holly Witteman, PhD

hwitteman

The #colcorona preprint was posted last week. I was busy in a review panel so this is coming a bit later, but here’s my take, as a scientist who has

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—South Africa halted use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford #COVID19 vaccine on Sunday after evidence emerged that it did not protect participants from mild or moderate illness caused by the #B1351

Lori Jablonski

Lori_Jablonski

Two district dependent charter schools are slated to open on August 3rd. We asked about district plans for those reopenings. After some very confusing talk, district said: 1. Move start

Simon I stand with Jackie Weaver’s Cat Myerson QC

SCynic1

A Covid murder trial. Thread of 13.This is a tale to chill the blood and cause barristers to wake screaming in the night. Ok, maybe not quite (only maybe) but

Professor Catherine Loveday

CathLoveday

(1/11) I almost never do a Twitter thread but I have been reflecting on the different ways in which people have inspired me in 2020. Here are ten: (2/11) @DebbiHusbands

BBC Essex

BBCEssex

The royal photographer, Arthur Edwards, has had his coronavirus vaccine at the Brentwood Centre. (Pic: @MidEssexCCG) Andrew Fenton, 84, was the first person to get one at the Danbury Medical

Tiziano Breda

TizBreda

Northern Central America is at a critical juncture: a steep economic downturn caused by #COVID19, devastation left by #ETA, and if not enough, violent crime back on the rise, after

Peter Daszak

PeterDaszak

More details on likely evolutionary timescales behind bat-to-human COVID emergence. Interesting work from @robertson_lab @UofGlasgow @CVRinfo suggests 1) SARS2-lineage bat-CoVs have been circulating for few decades (in bats!).....https://ww

Dr N. Brodie נחמה

brodiegal

In this Groundhog Day pandemic life, people demand the State resolves issues related to COVID. But every time the State does anything, people clamour 'not like that'. What is the

Armine Yalnizyan

ArmineYalnizyan

Gig economy weighted against 'employee' relationship https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/gig-economy-weighted-against-employee-relationship-20200810-p55kex.html Australian inquiry (in Victoria) on the gig economy finds "P

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