#Preparedness

The central idea behind this piece on why the US failed so badly to control the pandemic is that it fell under the combined weight of a multitude of weaknesses,
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Hello does anyone want an extremely long thread with thoughts on global covid vaccine manufacturing, brought to you by delaying hoovering the house? (This is a rhetorical question I'm not
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That woman was 111-year-old Foon Hay Lum (no relation) and she was an advocate who fought for a formal apology and redress for the Canadian government's racist Chinese head tax
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Very excited to unveil a white paper I’ve been working on: “The American biomedical research enterprise in a post-COVID-19 world”. http://rescuingbiomedicalresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Report-Final.pdf 1/ This was a months-
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Bear with me in this thread but I'd appreciate your thoughts. I've picked up on the fact that #Trump & Pence are intentionally pretending that no force is being used
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THREAD: Last night I had the unpleasant sight of witnessing one of the key obstacles to progress in Bosnia. Unfortunatley that obstacle is the cohort of fanatical SDA supporters who
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New from me in @GDI_Policy: Climate change is bearing down on the residential real estate market--and another housing crash is just over the horizon. If policymakers don’t step up soon,
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1. Now that the debate over whether or not lockdowns make sense in a context like Pakistan's (with good arguments on both sides) has been rendered moot by the government's
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(thread)1. The 1918 Influenza epidemic was dubbed the Spanish Flu. Check out the recommendations. Did you know that the CDC recreated the Spanish Flu in 2005?? 2. STATEMENTUnmasking the 1918
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A thread of quotes and sentences that stood out to me from books Ive read.Feel free to DM me for details of the books etc. 1) It taught me
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Back to reporting after ~4 weeks of battling the virus, being a caregiver to 3 in family, finding hospital beds, labs, struggling to seek info about hospitalised parents. All this
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As governors develop plans and timing for reopening, its useful to take stock of where the US is compared to other countries dealing w/ #COVID19, and to examine some key
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A few further thoughts.The reason the White House is suddenly flipping out about this is that they're realizing the die is already cast, and it will be very, very damaging
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We couldn't predict #COVID19, but CDC scientists did predict a pandemic and our lack of preparedness. My new @PLOSONE paper with @UCSJacob has important findings that inform decisionmakers actions now.
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1/ @man_integrated the following is a conversation w/an MD friend of mine regarding SNS, VMI, ICS & NIMS.This might be a bit long. So Once More with Feeling let's educate
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1. This article has been circulating in recent days. Written by an "expert", seemingly well-researched, yet sloppy with facts and highly misleading. This (long) thread explains why. It's for anyone
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