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lgflanagan

I read a lot of longform stuff and have had some friends ask for my reading recommendations during #COVID19. Going to keep a thread (and pin it for a bit)

Adam Frank

AdamFrank4

1) One can use exoplanet data to modify Drake equation and ask: How bad must the odds of civilization-making be for Humans to be the only one in all cosmic

David Leonhardt

DLeonhardt

When people - including political allies - feel comfortable defying the president, it's both a sign of his weakness and a cause of further weakness. It means others have decided

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

Early results from a representative household-based survey in Indiana. 4600 participants. 1.7% PCR positive + 1.1% seropositive = 2.8% with active/prior infection. Estimated 11x infections as reported. IFR = 0.6%.

Nikhil Krishnan

nikillinit

One of the dark things we're going to discover is the number of shittier health outcomes that are going to come from the non-COVID populations whose care we're delaying to

OakTree

Class_of_78

@CanadianPM @JustinTrudeau @CDNMinHealth @PattyHajdu @CPHO_Canada @NYGovCuomo Are people living in high rises sitting ducks? Please note, this paper is extremely important to help gov create responsible policies to mitigate #COVID19

Joshua Matz

JoshuaMatz8

"There is not a single person in the United States—not the President and not anyone else—whose job description includes slandering women they sexually assaulted."Tonight, @kaplanrobbie & I filed our brief

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

At this point @nytimes is just making stuff up. Where is the data that lockdowns have slowed the spread of #COVID? Comparing early v late v no lockdown states provides

William Armstrong

WJ_Armstrong

Report says average deaths in Istanbul between 9 March and 12 April exceed previous years' averages by 30%, casting doubt on Turkey's official Covid19 death figures. Data seems solid, has

Sarah Kliff

sarahkliff

I've covered hospitals for a decade.I've never seen hospitals managed like the ones I wrote about in my new story. A thread: (1/9)https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/us/hospital-closures-west-virginia-ohio.html Between 2014 and 2017, a for-pro

Ben Casselman

bencasselman

Another 3 million Americans filed first-time claims for unemployment benefits last week, the 8th straight week of million-plus claims. As a reminder, before this period, the most claims EVER filed

Jacob Remes

jacremes

The insistence to say what Trump did yesterday vis-a-vis the Proud Boys was "failing to rebuke white supremacists" is actively harmful. He didn't "fail to rebuke" the Proud Boys. He

Charlie Warzel

cwarzel

I wrote about Facebook’s QAnon purge, the political ad ban & militia pages and how it’s recent actions are a tacit admission that what is good for Facebook is, on

Ryan "Two Pfizer Shots and Covid Immune" Ellis

RyanLEllis

What should people think about the @nytimes Trump tax story? A thread. 1/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage Let’s start with the obvious: whi

Paul Sabin

paulesabin

Food system's limited capacity to quickly redirect production is revealing its underlying structure and patterns. Two striking pictures: Millions of onions in Iowa piled up to be buried as waste;

Ben Norton

BenjaminNorton

The Democratic "Party" is a mafia funded by billionaires and Wall StreetWall Street puppet Obama pushed out the other primary candidates, forcing everyone to unify around Biden (which they all