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Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

COVID Update July 2: Why not to freak out. 1/ Yes, the news is bad. Yes, more than ever we all know this was preventable. And yes, it’s a sad

Ross Tucker

Scienceofsport

Here's an important paper in the transathlete debate, by @TLexercise & @FondOfBeetles. They ask whether male performance advantages are removed after testosterone suppression? (as required by many sports policies for

Niskanen Center

NiskanenCenter

HAPPENING NOW: Republicans make the case for #refugees. With panelists @KoriSchake, @OliviaEnos, @RosLehtinen, and @KDPinDC Moderated by @mlacorte_.Tune in, or follow along as we live-tweet the highlights via this thread!https://www.niskane

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eellhsa

HERE IS A THREAD OF WAYS YOU CAN HELP THE BLACK COMMUNITY/ THE LATE GEORGE FLOYD RIGHT NOW: This fund is established to cover funeral and burial expenses, mental and

Marc Lipsitch

mlipsitch

Two preprints recently make an important point: for any infection, including COVID-19, it is possible that herd immunity can be accomplished with more than 1/R0 of the population still susceptible.

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

I was looking at the Covid data sets on Google that link to other data sets. Due to testing, reporting, data aggregation & use of different categorizations, they're not exactly

Uriah

crimkadid

Going to come out of eight years of Twitter lurking to try and answer some basic problems of human variation, first one being: "why are Polynesians so big and strong?",

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

0x49fa98

No nuanced and thoughtful words survive first contact with a person of average intelligence. A group of people is slightly smarter than its dumbest member Nuanced/thoughtful words cannot survive in

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: October 12, 1898. A racialized battle over strikebreaking broke out in Virden, Illinois. Let's talk about how employers could so easily manipulate racism to promote

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ariadneslament

An important read on a "paradox" of calculating the R. The overall R is useful to determine whether we have an epidemic, but the failure to recognise that it's actually

BBC Radio Cornwall

BBCCornwall

If you're doing something to help your neighbours and local community let us know and we'll let Cornwall know.#BBCMakeADifference Just being there to listen and have a chat can make

Markku Peltonen

MarkkuPeltonen

Nr of tweets circulate claiming Finland has higher excess mortality than Sweden.This seemed very strange so I took a closer look at long-term mortality in Sweden, Finland and Norway.Thread.TL;DR: The

The Immediate Future

FearsomeCritter

Grossed out by what you’ve been hearing about Wizards? Want to stop playing D&D but you’re in the middle of a game? Here’s how to quickly translate your D&D character

Joseph

joseph_afc

MY ARSENAL SUMMER TRANSFER WINDOW [A THREAD] Arsenal is having their worst season in decades, all due to many poor decisions in the past that led up to it alongside

rae

knightofswords_

i read this again & was horribly gotten by my own niche contenthttps://twitter.com/knightspur_ao3/status/1089003077594767360 actually, its sunday so maybe ill be a little self indulgent & share the bits that made

Thomas Dvorak

thomdvorak

Covid-19 IFR is *NOT* 0.13% (THREAD)There's a lot of confusion and some downright appalling falsehoods in the heated debate about Covid-19. One particular point around which the "let the virus