#Coronavírus

Abd Tahrani

AbdTahrani

The government #obesity strategy. You will see many press releases responding during the day, some of which I contributed to; but I will list my views in separate tweets in

The Americans with HIPAA Act

realsled

1/ The Oxford IncidentWhat happened? A police officer in Oxford Ohio responded to a mass gathering hosted by Miami University (OH). He ran the driver's license of a resident of

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

It's now looking quite likely that Brexit will coincide with both a third lockdown and - if the longterm forecasts are correct - severe flooding. Any one of these events

Timothy Snyder

TimothyDSnyder

0/25. Lying about disease kills us and our democracy. Quotations from "Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary," published this week. #OurMalady 1/25. "In January, (the federal government)

Barbara Speed

bspeed8

I don't write very often so am not really deserving of a journalism end-of-year thread, but here are a few things I was proud of this year anyway! our team

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

VIRAL LOAD & MASKS. New study— hospitalized patients w/ greater viral load have HIGHER risk of #COVID19 death.We know MASKS lower your viral load if you do somehow get infected.Thus,

Christopher Snowdon

cjsnowdon

A glimpse behind the wizard’s curtain as we see an Imperial modeller doing some modelling. Good grief. 1/ Threadhttps://twitter.com/itvnews/status/1361418477861367809 She works on the basis that 90% of people will have

Nithya Raman

nithyavraman

Back in April, California closed all eviction courts to keep people safe.Today LA is the global epicenter of the pandemic -- but eviction courts are *open again* and conditions are

Catherine Mayer

catherine_mayer

#COVID19 arrived in the UK *last year*. The finding by the Kent coroner raises many hard questions swerved in this @TheSun piece. A short, sad thread https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12618638/british-dad-coronavirus-christmas-china/ One of the

George Caulkin

GeorgeCaulkin

A little while ago I wrote about Newcastle, Father’s Day and Gordon, my step-dad (I have 3 dads - it’s complicated). Football was back after lockdown & life would never

Ali Velshi

AliVelshi

1/12“Lead, follow or get out of the way.” The quote has been attributed to both philosopher Thomas Paine and General George S Patton. No matter the source, the meaning is

James Gallagher

JamesTGallagher

Going to repeat my personal rule for judging all "new strain" or "new variant" stories... Viruses mutate all the time so it's important to ask whether the behaviour of the

COVID19 Saliva Study

SalivaStudy

Antibodies that circulate through the blood differ from secreted antibodies (i.e. in the nose or saliva) which protect mucosal tissues. We are profiling the secreted antibodies to get a better

Matina Stevis-Gridneff

MatinaStevis

After weeks of intensive debate on EU's vaccine standing compared to UK, USA, we try to show that in narrow speed terms Germany & maybe France have been slowed down

Lauren Pelley

LaurenPelley

Six months ago today, officials announced Canada’s first #COVID19 case. People quickly started trickling in to hospitals — but there was no roadmap for treating the brand-new illness.The good news?

durrie bouscaren

durrieB

OK so I've been researching a round of pitches on vaccine distribution disparities, and I've been noticing some threads of conversation and some really good work. Here's a quick roundup:

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