#Pandemics

Adam squires

adsquires

COVID can be airborne, in floating “aerosol” particles. We know how these particles move, and how long they stay in the air. What does this mean for minimising risk? TL;DR:

Eric

EricsElectrons

Some are under the impression that bringing up the achievements of Newton or Shakespeare are “shaming those with mental health” or “insensitive of various inequalities.”This is why I think the

Femi😷

Femi_Sorry

I'll be totally honest.I shared this article many times since 2018 to show that, based on the highest medical consensus, those who supported No-deal Brexit were trying to kill 1000s

ShaileyPrasad MD MPH

shaileyprasad

Criticizing the @WHO is a lazy excuse, a convenient way to shift the blame. Effective functioning needs good structures. Pandemics are the best example of why we need WHO to

Adam Hamdy

adamhamdy

1. The @Ligandal antidote to #SARSCoV2 has been getting a lot of attention, but some people are having difficulty understanding how it works and what makes it so promising, so

Ann M. Little

Historiann

Far be it from me to sympathize with Cotton Mather, but reading about the Boston smallpox epidemic, I'm sympathetic to Cotton Mather. In advocating variolation, he was targeted by Bostonians'

Alex John London

AlexJohnLondon

1. My new paper with @kimmelmanJ is out at @ScienceMagazine. “Pandemic Research Exceptionalism” is the idea that the urgency of a crisis warrants lowering #research standards. We argue against this

Joseph Santini, PhD 🇵🇷🏳️‍🌈

jrscoyote

Right now Zoom doesn’t offer captioning in breakout rooms. It’s interesting thinking through the impact. Breakout rooms are usually for discussion, dissection, dissemination, application - interaction, a lot of the

Freya Holmér

FreyaHolmer

I'm a little tired of people fetishizing sweden's way of dealing with covid-19 as something to look up to when the number of deaths per day it's about as bad

Kayleigh🧬•

KJAOrchard96

This is so fucking embarrassing. I can't help but feel quite sorry for people like this. This lack of education will delay a return to the 'freedoms' they so desperately

Ananth Krishna Subhalakshmy

Ananth_Krishna_

Yet another controversy is brewing regarding the allocation of Disaster Relief Funds to Kerala - which is a lower ₹157 crore compared to higher amounts other states received. Is this

Russ Jones

RussInCheshire

A major purpose of a Central Bank is to stabilise the economy. When the economy is going too slow, borrow to speed it up. When it overheats, tax to slow

Dr Louise Raw

LouiseRawAuthor

Pandemics- great levellers?If so, it’s puzzling that it’s invariably the poor who die most.In 1665 after the ‘Great Plague’ broke out, Charles II ordered the mayor and aldermen of London

Putey Pute

putey_pute

How often have you seen people saying ‘Nicola, can you run the U.K. please’ recently? The comparison of Sturgeon to Johnson is an extremely thick-minded one, lacking in critical thinking

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Last summer, I did an interview with the Singularity Blog podcast (my last interview was all the way back in 2012). As is my wont, I got to talking about

Dennis Jernberg

dennis_jernberg

#Spanner #amediting update (for once): Thanks to the "qrazy" turn of the altmed set, Sia's "uncostumed" superheroine sisters Charlie & Desiree now have a Berserk Button: "q-wackery".Charlie: Quack?Desir