#Pandemics

David Fisman

DFisman

A thread...great news on the vaccine front this week, but perhaps a good time to remind folks that this is NOT the new normal, and that pandemics have a beginning,

Genesis Health Consulting

GHC_Ideas

Q2: What must be true when we think about kids returning to school? #covid19 Please include A2 and the chat hashtag #GenesisPlayCafe in your response 1 Several papers and guiding

Eggnik

EggNik

Don't get distracted. Novel coronavirus sure isn't.It's aiming to thrive, to win. It figured out how to reach the globe through a ubiquitous large-in-number mammal species that is good at

WeAreSatϕshi

sovereignmonkey

Everything you need to know about #COVID19 but your government is too afraid to tell you.Get some sunshine on your skin.Eat vitamin D rich foods, and/or supplement.Wear a mask if

Christiana Zenner 💌

christyzen

There’s a lot in this NYT oped about Notre Dame (U’s) insistence to re-open in person. Colleges are adjudicating many goods and risks at present. But this argument: YIKES.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/opinion/notre-dame-university-

Fatima Syed

fatimabsyed

My friend's brother is in the ICU in Pakistan from Covid. She was meant to fly out yesterday but all flights to India/Pakistan were cancelled.Meanwhile, I have received 8 DMs

WorldCoffeeResearch

WCoffeeResearch

What can we learn about pandemics from looking at the history of plant epidemics? This week we’re going to dive down on coffee leaf rust, the most dastardly of coffee

Glenn Greenwald

ggreenwald

Freddie deBoer, an exceptional writer who has spent the last several years treating mental illness, spoke to @jessesingal about how Twitter can foster those pathologies, exacerbate them, & amplify their

Ahmad Al-Rashid ✪

ahmadalrashid99

Thread:I was an asylum-seeker, I’m a refugee now! I find it very disturbing, disheartening and difficult to keep reading, watching and listening to peopel dehumasing peopel like me! I try

Kurt Eichenwald

kurteichenwald

The insanity of this piece aside, theres no better proof of the incompetence & dishonesty of Navarro than his new op-ed in USA Today. He makes sweeping statements with links

Linton

antlin2016

1/...TRUMP EVIL kids in cages, interference with prosecution of his friends, the majority of the tax “cuts” to him and his wealthy friends, (and I’m an accountant) 2/...I’m telling you

Ralph Cerchione

Dry_Observer

From a speech allegedly by then Defense Minister of China, Chi Haotian, about eliminating the populations of America, Australia and/or Canada with biowarfare.“Would the United States allow us to go

Tom K. Wong

TomWongPhD

NEW: Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, the centuries old immigration-disease trope is being used to change immigration and asylum policies. What does the empirical evidence show? Findings below

Jeremy Hunt

Jeremy_Hunt

Hospital acquired COVID-19 remains a major problem as it STILL accounts for 15% of COVID hospital patients: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/973495/S1147_CO-CIN_dynamic_report.p

Bobbette From Brixton

WhoTheFIsDis

I’m going to do a thread on how Jamaica is going down a slippery slope with their housing developments and these exorbitant prices, and what we can learn from Portland,

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

All over the world, the authorities are closing down parks and trails—but that's unsustainable, counterproductive and probably even harmful. Instead, we should adapt to the pandemic and retool them for