#Covid

Thought of the day: I've seen a couple of well meaning but clueless white people say that covid-19 is the great equalizer. That couldn't be further from the truth. This
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This is what keeps me up at night.1 in 10 women in Canada "very concerned or extremely concerned about the possibility of violence in the home" during COVID. Men's violence
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(1/13) Very excited to regroup with (extended) @IDMOD_ORG ers: @BMAlthouse @WengerEdward @joel_c_miller @svscarpino @LHDnets @all_are with inputs from @famulare_mike. This is a draft on super spreading events, stochasticity and heterogeneit
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Canada needs to stop denying the public release of race data about Covid 19. We need this information public to help SAVE LIVES. Fraud means to HIDE INFO too. This
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THREADThere is a growing hunger in #America for healing; not only from ghastly #Coronavirus pandemic, but from toxicity, strife, tribalism, and dysfunction that are corroding our national community. People want
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1) HOW TRUMP CAN ADJOURN CONGRESS #QANONHUGE!!! Trump just hinted about ADJOURNING CONGRESS. This thread explains the EXTRAORDINARY POWERS that Trump will have during any CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS to make rapid
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6 hours = how long TikTok users use the app per week. Also, WAU has grown 27% since early March (appannie)Why does TikTok grow in lockdown? Fast entertainment, feeling of
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What if we had a better metric for communicating the risk COVID-19 currently poses to society than case numbers?The R number and deaths also have big flaws (more )What if
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Today's COVID-19 update is scheduled to start in a few minutes. It will be live-streamed here: https://novascotia.ca/stayinformed/webcast About to start. Strang gives latest numbers. Strang: we're still doing more per
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India's true mortality rate from #COVID19 correctly measured almost an unmeasurably small 0.017%. The lockdown which threatens to unleash a humanitarian/economic disaster is not backed by science or evidence. PM
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Capitalism is the only system that allows for the disparities we’re seeing highlighted right now. The ability for offenders to buy their way out of prosecution and for white people
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A recent investigation into #SouthSudan’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered multiple allegations of corruption. (Thread) https://twitter.com/anticorruption/status/1380492553364107265 #SouthSudan is among the countries that h
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Rising vaccination rates mean #COVID19 case numbers will fall a lot even before reaching herd immunity. And sooner than you might think. That’s because cases decline via exponential decay. My
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I don’t think this article is paywalledIMPORTANT read@Apple & @Google released software to track COVID-19“allows health authorities to build apps that use Bluetooth technology to notify users who come in
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Barrett casts the fifth vote to lift COVID restrictions on houses of worship in NY. Roberts dissents. The new five-justice ultraconservative majority takes shape for the first time.https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/133194379404082380
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Yesterday, May 26, the http://worldometers.com  website documented more than 100,000 Americans who died of Covid-19. I write this thread as a way of describing to anyone who might read this
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