#Pandemics

Kaal Chiron काल्किरण

Kal_Chiron

Rcvd this beautiful post on WA from a friend. On depression from Hindu perspective. By Pankaj Saxena ————Depression is the absence of Dukkha. Once again going back to the days

Joseph Allen

j_g_allen

The middle seat is not the problem.The lack of gate-based ventilation is.In 2013 I led work on this Nat'l Acad of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report:"Infectious Disease Mitigation in Airports

Richard Spoor

Richard_Spoor

In today’s Sunday Times:On pages 1&2 the ANC’s RET faction argues that connected cronies who have been in the “tendering business” for years are being unfairly targeted as rent seeking

Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician)

jeremyfaust

2020 will be the deadliest year in modern American history.We will see >3 million deaths for the first time ever.In fact, well over that number.Join me for a thread on

Jack

Jac5Connor

1/ I lived in Beijing during the 2008 Olympics and this was exactly why i got worried early.This was during H1N1, and between that disease and the olympics, I was

Dannah Dennis

DannahDennis

Compiling a list of #Covid_19 readings for my Intro to Anthro students - they agreed that while they wanted to stick primarily to the topics outlined in the syllabus, they

Voting Down Ballot is My 💚 Language 🗽

ProfJSCarberry

Hasn’t @SenWarren shared that plan? Updated repeatedly?https://twitter.com/barackobama/status/1253046061091950593 The Plan in Januaryhttps://elizabethwarren.com/plans/combating-infectious-disease-outbreaks?s Demanding accountability from private pris

CSIS

CSIS

1/ The entire world is consumed by the rapid spread of COVID-19. @CSISHealth experts Steve Morrison and Anna Carroll look at what a post-COVID-19 world might look like and what

Matt Ashby

LessCrime

I've posted a new article pre-print (currently undergoing peer review) on @socarxiv on how police calls for service have changed during the pandemic in ten large US cities https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/h4mcuThread with

Montana Skeptic

montana_skeptic

1/ More on the very bizarre $TSLA & $CVNA (Carvana) connection... 2/ First, as a reminder, we see used Model 3 cars listed on Carvana at prices that exceed the

Femi😷

Femi_Sorry

Never forgetAug 2018:British Medical Association says Brexit would weaken our NHS and No-Deal would makes us more vulnerable to pandemics.Mar 2019:Johnson pushes No-Deal Brexit.3 Mar 2020: North Italy on lockdown

James Doeser

jamesdoeser

As some of you know I spent much of 2019 working with a Wellcome Trust project called Contagious Cities https://wellcome.ac.uk/what-we-do/our-work/contagious-cities As you can imagine I've been thinking about whether to

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

The report by the ‘Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team’ has been released on March 16th (https://tinyurl.com/tcdy42y ). Now that things have calmed down a bit, I felt I should produce a

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

COVID Update May 24: Sunday is the day when my threads are different. They are less newsy. They are less popular. But they are dedicated to the 100,000 people we’ve

OUTy Street

outystreet

Hello :) We will be live tweeting our first annual LGBT rights lecture The inaugural lecture is by @JonathanCoopr https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/event/learning-love-again-ghosts-viruses-past-present-and-future. .@UleleB introduces OUTy St

Danny Boy

Care2much18

I understand where you're coming at this on the mental health issues, but comparisons to Sweden need a little bit more context. More generally, the premise that "prevention isn't better