#Pandemics

Ed Conway

EdConwaySky

How does one reconcile this with the fact that case growth was actually SLOWER than in that "worst case scenario" (on basis of pretty much every measure inc @ONS survey)?As

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JR_38MUFC

A thread on “Positive Tests”..... With cases seemingly on the rise at an alarming rate, and media hysteria driving people into almost accepting another lockdown, I thought it would be

Debbie Yee

debyee29

I just discovered (thanks @hunrachel) about the growing gap in publication submissions in the past month since the covid-19 started (links below). Moral of the story is: we need to

Victor Adeyemi

VictorAdeyemi

ACTS OF GOD AND COVID -9Hurricanes, famines, volcanic eruptions and other natural disasters are known in statutes as ‘Acts of God’. Wherever this started from, it represents the worldview about

The New York Times

nytimes

President Trump was slow to absorb the scale of the risk the coronavirus pandemic posed to the U.S. and to act accordingly, our examination of the administration’s response revealshttps://nyti.ms/2Vmt6MH Dozens

Danny Boy

Care2much18

One-stop thread for my sanity on how I view certain issues that crop up, as opposed to Groundhog Day rehashing the same points in 30 different threads. (-Wash your hands

Heidi N. Moore

moorehn

Why do liberals say things like this It is possible to despise Trump for his concentration camps and also criticize B*den for pandering to minority voters and there is no

Paul Poast

ProfPaulPoast

#COVID19 poses a global threat to health. So why is there no comprehensive, multilateral, cooperative response to the threat?Is it because of...- Leaders?- State characteristics?- The "Structure" of the International

Stop Funding Fake News

SFFakeNews

THREADGoogle is profiting from & funding misinformation about the Presidential election.We estimate that 6 sites are making over $3million from ads placed there by Google.Here's how major brands are inadvertently

snarke

snarke

Welcome to today's #COVID19 #Briefing! Are you ready for the Friday edition of the #Trump Gong Show? Because I'm not! So apparently part of the reason for the #Covid19 #Briefing

Center for Countering Digital Hate

CCDHate

NEW: Google is making millions of dollars from websites spreading misinformation about the Presidential Election.It’s time for @Google to stop profiting from and funding dangerous lies.Here’s what we found #no2misinfo

Dylan Scott

dylanlscott

Coronavirus has created another kind of crisis for primary care doctors and their patientshttps://www.vox.com/2020/4/27/21231528/coronavirus-covid-19-primary-care-doctors-crisis I talked with @DaniaPal, who has chronic pain from an autoimmune conditi

Ana Mardoll

AnaMardoll

Speaking as someone who was homeschooled well, but has spoken with a lot of people who were homeschooled poorly, I think it would be LESS disruptive to cancel school for

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. Three weeks ago, everyone was bashing the University of Illinois for having the audacity to run an in-person semester at a large state school by developing an in-house testing

Emily Deans MD 👻

evolutionarypsy

Doctors in 1918 tried high dose aspirin, quinine, arsenic, camphor oil, digitalis, strychnine, Epsom salts and castor oil, and when none of these helped, fell back on bloodletting. They had

Phil Bak

philbak1

Some math for perspective:*There are approximately 124 million taxpayers in America*Every Trillion dollars spent equals $8000 per taxpayer*National debt is 24.2 Trillion, almost 200k per taxpayer*The 2.3T Fed announcement Friday