#Pandemics

Steven Hamilton

SHamiltonian

There continues to be confusion about the unemployment rate. To my mind, the only number that matters is the unemployment rate when the economy is open again and/or the virus

dr stephanie moore

steph_moore

I am deeply, deeply worried about this. It's not a narrative supported by research, but who pays attention to to evidence or facts anymore. What we have witnessed is a

Rhuta Bhayga

RhutaBhayga2

IMPORTANT REMINDERNow that the Democratic President-Vice President ticket is set, and Vice President Biden with Senator Harris are going to be the Democratic ticket on the November ballot, I figured

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

THREADFor @Patrick__MorrowChallenge accepted.Not that @realDonaldTrump needs my help, but this is a good exercise in debunking Democrat propaganda. The tweet in question. We'll take each demented claim one at a

Adam Rothman

arothmanhistory

It is tragic that the only language our society seems to have for the collective effort to survive is "war." What a failure of political imagination. This is what provoked

Irene Ten Cate

IreneTenCate

The new volume of @JLWIonline is out! Read it here: https://www.legalwritingjournal.org/ . The volume starts with two sets of essays introduced by Lindsey Gustafson of @BowenLaw. This thread highlights the essays

Peter Todd

peterktodd

Thread on shocking exponential growth, yet still fails to understand exponential growth.If your small interventions fail to stop growth, ~everyone is infected anyway. Then your small intervention has a small

Farzad Mostashari

Farzad_MD

1/ We have heard about a number of potential breakthroughs for COVID response- large scale/cheap testing, immune therapy, vaccine progress. But when it comes to "getting eyes on the outbreak"

Charlie Stross

cstross

Good morning world. Am now trying to work out how to deal with the existence of COVID-19 in the Laundry Files, because this is *total* turd-in-the-punchbowl time for alternate-present fictional

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ZoLekkaa

The girl who organized gbv protests last year after Uyinene's death was murdered last week Monday. Two pandemics, Corona and Men What you can do help Source: @/zulaikhapatel on Instagram

Dominic Dean

DrDominicDean

As a new academic year begins, we should note how extreme misinformation is spreading in the Covid era, and how universities are far from immune (so to speak) from anti-Vaxxers

Adrien Fabre

adrien_fabre

Here is my dream tool to communicate people's research, that I hope will come into existence with this pandemics. 1. Researchers would record their presentation (3 preferable durations: 5', 20',

CoachAdkins

JDABird

Last night @realDonaldTrump expressed the lie of what it taught in American schools. Lets get the record straight America wasn’t developed by white Europeans. It was developed by people who

David Fisman

DFisman

I'm not sure if anyone's in the mood for this, given the state of N America right now, but I keep getting asked whether another wave of COVID-19 is "possible".I

Esteban Ortiz

EstebanOrtizMD

La historia de las pandemias:La peste antonina, 165-180 D. C., conocida también como la plaga de Galeno, porque fue este famoso médico quien la describió (viruela o sarampión?) Mató a

Chris Lu

ChrisLu44

THREAD: As Trump issues a new threat to suspend immigration, let's remember that immigrants are on the front lines of treating #COVID19 patientsImmigrants make up 28% of doctors, 24% of