#PANDEMIC

François Heisbourg

FHeisbourg

THREAD 1/5 Superb report on UK much of which could be applied word-for-word to the pre-March French situation: Special Report: Johnson listened to his scientists about coronavirus - but they

Adrienne LaFrance

AdrienneLaF

Hear hear. @TheAtlantic's @zeynep is extremely good at getting the most complicated things right. Just a few examples... (1/6)https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/business/media/how-zeynep-tufekci-keeps-getting-the-big-things-right.html H

Jeremy Wallace

JeremySWallace

BREAKING: Texas is reporting it's worst day from COVID-19 since the pandemic began with 98 people dying from the virus just since yesterday and a new record of 9,610 people

RoyalCollegeObsGyn

RCObsGyn

We have raised our concerns with the Northern Ireland Health Minister @RobinSwannMoH about his decision not to commission or fund abortion care services. This decision is leading to women being

Isaac Castillo

isaac_outcomes

Very important article by @The74 and research by @NWEA. Students will lose a lot of this year's learning after COVID-19 school closures. On top of typical summer learning loss. All

Mattober Surprise

stinson

Theory: If Biden wins, his pandemic messaging will be better than Trump’s shitshow, but Europe’s experience points to the limitation of pre-vaccine policy responses to the virus in a populous

Dr. Steph Guerra

Steph_Guerra

Something I think many of us in #scipol have been struggling w/during this pandemic is that most of our job is to network and talk to people- it's what makes

Professor Anne-Marie Brady

Anne_MarieBrady

Why was NZ govt slow to move to restrict borders, prepare for pandemic, why did we not prevent bulk export of masks/PPE? #Taiwan did this January 2020. Jan-Feb '20 China

slim mon

_dmww

what i find funny is that some ppl want the unemployment cut cause they want ppl to go back to work. but who wants to go back to making minimum

Euresilience / Massimo

Euresilience

Malicious actors have taken #COVID19 as an opportunity for spreading #disinformation. This #Infodemic has influenced citizens perceptions in moments where there's a lot of uncertainty. @risj_oxford has some good insights:https://reuters

roxane gay

rgay

Not in my wildest, darkest imagination could I have ever imagined, in fact or fiction, a president suggesting injecting disinfectants, household cleaning products, as a pandemic curative. And this would

Jaelani

hernameisjae

Are writers still negotiating rates during the pandemic? I’ve been lenient on rates because since pubs are doing budget cuts, but I also don’t want to play myself.

Champion Women

iChampionWomen

ICYMI: 5 ways Betsy DeVos’s new Title IX rule will make schools more dangerous for all students (from @nwlc)1) Ignores victims - Schools will be allowed to dismiss sexual harassment

Chrissy Stroop

C_Stroop

I’m sure we could all use some encouragement as we weather the #COVIDー19 pandemic, so I’m going to do a thread of positive messages left around my PDX neighborhood that

Stephen Reicher

ReicherStephen

You can stop people talking about Cummings but, like a cancerous lump, you can't stop it doing damage as long as it remains. And, in the next phase of the

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) On Sunday, the Canadian Red Cross opened a field hospital for the first time on Quebec soil — in of all places, a hockey arena in LaSalle — for