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Abraar Karan
AbraarKaran
1/ Those who earned big platforms from #covid19- your silence on racism will be deafening.For those who see #covid19 & the #protests2020 as separate— they are not. They are deeply
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Scott Gottlieb, MD
ScottGottliebMD
THREAD: This is a hard moment - but it’s a brief moment in our long history. It’s six months until we get to a technology to end the Covid epidemic
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Sjzh
zhkhussaini
Why was ICMR,a reasearch organisation chosen to lead this fight against Covid 19 instead of National Centre for Disease Control( NCDC),which was trained 2 fight epidemics,experience & infrastructure handled infectious
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low arctic
LowArctic
it’s important to put this in perspective: at the time, everyone (except Natives) thought genocide of Ntv communities had utterly and completely workedit was THE gold standard of genocide in
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Amanda Jeyaretnam:Social Distancing
Liberal_Isms
It’s Sunday and the sun is shining which will increase park use and inevitably closure of these spaces again. I’m reminded of the fear, stigma and ignorance at the height
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Robert J Frey
financequant
The PRC and WHO warned the world not to overreact. Many criticized governments for overreacting. Then the extent of the pandemic became clear. Governments were criticized by some for not
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GitmoChannel
GitmoChannel
Exploration of "The Archer".Have seen a few archer/arrow comms over the past week.As usual, I have no idea what to make of them.1/ First, let's just review some events and
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Jim Downs
jimdowns1
During the Civil War, an unnamed freedwoman didn’t want to leave her dead 8 yr old son on a wharf unburied b/c she witnessed how rats gnawed on “one dead
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Tom Inglesby
T_Inglesby
US now has daily average of 71,000 cases, all time high for the pandemic. And trends are pointing higher. Nearly 1 in 6 new daily diagnosed cases in the world
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Joel Miller
joel_c_miller
A new paper is out exploring the impact of heterogeneity on the herd immunity threshold.It explores two types of heterogeneity- variation in susceptibility - and variation in contact rate.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.2
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عمر
champagnepvki
For everyone thinking that Hajj being cancelled certainly signifies the end of the world:A thread on when Hajj was cancelled: 865: Massacre on Arafat Mountain - Hajj cancelled930: Qarmatian attack
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Alex Berenson
AlexBerenson
1/ To look back at those crucial days last March when lockdowns spread globally is to realize NONE OF THIS HAD TO HAPPEN. Italy set the stage when it locked
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Richard Spoor
Richard_Spoor
In SA land invasions are most often staged by criminal/political syndicates that occupy land and then allocate for patronage or profit. Typically they sell the stands for a fee, mainly
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Tom Di Liberto
TDiLiberto
THREAD: There's been a lot of weather/climate extreme destruction of late that might leave you thinking "oh I can't imagine!" So let me tell you a story about the time
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Max Roser
MaxCRoser
Humanity’s history is a battle against the microbes. And for most of our history we were losing very decisively.My new post – and visualization – on how vaccines allowed us
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Wyatt, Austere Deplorable
Western2A
Promising to eradicate Polio with $1.2 billion, Gates took control of India‘s (NAB) & mandated 50 polio vaccines (up from 5) to every child before age 5. Indian doctors blame
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