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(((Aaron “Worthing” Walker)))

AaronWorthing

It’s exceedingly clear that the media has decided that it wants to engage in what I’ll call the “FDR strategy” with respect to Biden and his clear mental incapacityYep, it’s

N e e b l e

silntscreamr

Since people don’t seem to understand that there were presidents with disabilities, I’ll be compiling a list of the presidents throughout history that have either had a mental or physical

Tyson Whelan

tyson_whelan

Before you take a cheap shot at the World Health Organisation for its handling of #COVIDー19, there’s a few facts you should know.Yes, the #WHO should be held accountable for

Prof. Devi Sridhar

devisridhar

Donald Trump's withdrawal of U.S. from the WHO ignores the key role the agency plays in outbreak prevention & response. Not only for COVID, but also for polio, malaria, TB,

Adewunmi

eadewunmi

We are few days away from social chaos, few weeks away from the coronavirus peak and a few months away from a recession. The outcomes are all catastrophic with different

Greg Muttitt

FuelOnTheFire

With a week’s post-thesis holiday in Cornwall, I finally got round to reading Frank Snowden's Epidemics and Society. I found it absolutely gripping. A few things stand out for me

Atila Iamarino

oatila

Fui descobrir hoje que tinham questionado quando disse que dependendo do tipo de vacina que desenvolvermos pra COVID, o pulmão das pessoas pode não ser "completamente protegido". Segue um pequeno

NewsBytes

NewsBytesApp

Earlier, it was believed that a large number of asymptomatic patients was bad news since people could infect others without knowing that they were infectedHowever, experts now point out that

Arlen Parsa

arlenparsa

After Pearl Harbor, 80% of Americans listened to FDR's "infamy speech" by radio.But people at home did not know that he was gripping the podium to avoid falling down.Today we

Rizwan

Rizwow

A thread on world praising Pakistan's COVID-19 response(1/n) WHO praises Pakistan’s handling of coronavirus crisis (March 1, 2020)(2/n)https://tribune.com.pk/story/2167405/praises-pakistans-handling-coronavirus-crisis Pakistan’s res

Pallavi Ghaskadbi 🦊

otocolobus

Today I got a request from a dear friend and colleague @akadarj to talk to her field assistant (who hails from a remote forest village in Maharashtra), in Marathi, about

Beatrice Cherrier

Undercoverhist

Seems important for econs (& everyone, in fact) to follow historians of medicine/epidemiology, if only to learn lessons from history of econ & epi side by side. So here's a

Doherty Institute

TheDohertyInst

#MelbourneConversations @VictorianCHO has downloaded the app #covidsafe it will help automating the contact tracing @VicGovDHHS #diseasedetectives The more people that download the app, the more bluetooth handshakes will take place

Dr Fiona Rawle

FiRawle

How viruses got their names:1. COVID-19. This is the name of the disease not the virus. The viruse that causes it is SARS-CoV2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2). For

TRN NEWS

TrnNews007

This is much more than sad – it’s tragic and most of the blame came belaid at the feet of the corrupt and dishonest “news” media, theentertainment industry, academia, and

Pug_Apu....Revolution-ing

Pug_Apu

TO THE Ppl WHO WOULD CALL THIS CONSPIRACYHow long have they known there was a cure?How long till you stop brushing this off & realize there might be a reason