#Reopening

The global scramble to thwart COVID-19 has a vast blind spot: sub-Saharan Africa. We have a story on this today, but to understand the problem, consider the following data points...
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Are u at (local, regional, nation) government position & u don't know how to spread fear properly?Do u rule on a media channel & ur audience isn't showing the proper
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I can't stop thinking about this: public health research shows you can't stop ppl from engaging in harmful behaviors, but you can help reduce the risks. like, you can't stop
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Dr. Trump touts unproven and potentially dangerous drugs: "Erythromycin, which will kill certain things that you don't want living within your body. It's a powerful drug ... what do you
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Are you seeing a list of draconian-seeming CDC “guidelines” for opening schools circulating? Are people commenting that the CDC is out of touch, that it’s never going to work, that
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Here is an updated version of my infographic providing data that shows masking young children in school is impractical and not backed up by research. All 52 citations are in
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1. One consistent theme in FL is the lagging for Biden American Latino voters. We're dealing w small samples so all we can do is lend theory to it. If
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A thread on how to support people in the shielding group in this period after coming out of lockdown. The shielding period DID end at the end of July, however
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NEW: In the future, widespread antibody testing could lead to "immunity certificates," which would let people who have already been exposed to the virus return to public life.But the hope
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I would very much like this to be true! But I'm not entirely persuaded that the data referenced in this article is robust enough to support the headline.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/schools-arent-superspreaders/6166
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Is it Assur to have a Minyan now?With moves towards reopening across the board, it is worth reflecting again (as we did 2.5 months ago) on different views on the
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Thinking this Memorial Day about American civil religion and something it seems we’ve lost over the last few years – something essential to who we once liked to believe we
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king solomon famously offered to cut a baby in half to ascertain which of 2 claimants was its true mother.no real mother would accede to such a thing.would that we
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Controversial view (& w/the requisite I’m-not-an-epidemiologist preface): If Rt really is approximately 1 in states that are reopening, then that strikes me as a powerful argument for shutting things down
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1. I'm having difficulty reconciling your repeated claim @DCPSChancellor that "this is the least disruptive plan" w the facts: 1. Prk-5 teachers will be moved around to teach grades &
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1) Republicans and Dems have ideological differences around the coronavirus crisis, but there is also a big gap in how the virus is hitting red and blue counties. New story
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