#Pandemics

Gordon Emmanuel

EmanThinks

Thread Alert... Great article. I will just touch on a sentiment that continues to arise in many of these pieces about Force Design. That being, “what about the other contingencies

Brandon J. McKoy

Brandon_McKoy

Seeing some folks say that "ReOpening" will allow us to go back to normal, but I'm not understanding why that's anyone's goal. The "normal" we had before this was a

Shashank Kumar

SPoK44

1/n #Coronavirus and #InternationalLaw: I think by now developments in several fields show that international litigation cannot be a substitute for negotiations. 2/n The efforts of international lawyers seeking answers

Sulome

SulomeAnderson

If only there were a country in the same geographical area as America that we could look to as an example of how to handle this pandemic with minimal loss

Ed Elliott

Ed1Elliott

1/ I decided to look back at some of the UK's National Security Strategy documents from recent years to see if anything stood out about how the a pandemic such

Matt Malkus

malkusm

1/ @BallouxFrancois - I am curious if you have examined other aspects of the 1889 Russian flu pandemic, which you mentioned here. There are several similarities to #SARSCoV2 which I

Tony Yates

t0nyyates

Quick thread on covid19, debt and fiscal policy. 1. Parking the government debt indefinitely is not an option. The old random walk result presumes that govts don't have fisal limits

Aneel Bhangu

aneelbhangu

Unknowns around SARS-CoV-2 + surgery (not in order):1. should SARS-CoV-2 patients undergo surgery? @CovidSurg data suggest it is about the patient risk, not the specific operation. Recent tweets highlight we

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

I have never done anything like this in my life. I’ve played no role in politics beyond voting. I didn’t pick this fight. Merely the uncovering in recent days of

Vivek Murthy

vivek_murthy

If an EUA for #COVID19 vaccine is managed like today’s convalescent plasma announcement, we are in trouble. We need to know the process for evaluating safety/efficacy is based on science

Robert Wiblin

robertwiblin

I'm worried that Vitamin D is the new facemasks.We have all of this suggestive evidence that Vit D might have a big impact on COVID19. An ordinary person hears this

DRI International

DRI_Intl

Starting the @columbia_ncdp Q&A:@ChloeDemrovsky: What makes a mega-disaster different from a regular #disaster? @jeffschlegel: Disasters so large they disrupt the systems designed to respond to them Where human development/activity also

Hercules Mulligan's back b/c that energy is needed

johnvmoore

Wokies think "Earn this vote or lose" is a viable strategy. As I said yesterday, if Joe Biden loses HE WILL STILL LIVE HIS BEST LIFE, just like Hillary is

Lori

2Sly4i2

The fact that I have NO plans to get the vaccine is neither related to Trump nor my being a Christian. I have no plans to get the vaccine because

A.M.

bhalomanush

Depending on which numbers you look at (infections or deaths), these lag 2-3 weeks, and up to 4 weeks. It takes time for these measures to take effect. April was

David Madden

davidjmadden

Housing inequality is fuelling the pandemichttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/12/virus-hitting-hardest-modern-equivalent-victorian-slums?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other There are periodic moments in housing history when the ruling class discovers that