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AWID

AWID

Shortly we'll be joining and live tweeting from @TimesTalks session on COVID-19 and the Gender Divide, with hosts @FrancescaDonner & @Alisha__g, and special guest @nahlav, senior gender adviser, Executive Office

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

In 1970, the U.S Department of Defense gave a $10m contract to WHO reference centres in the U.S to develop a "synthetic biological agent with no natural immunity". Thousands of

Derek Thompson

DKThomp

I wrote about “test and trace" and the plan to return to normal before a vaccine.Most people understand what testing means. So, what is tracing?https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/contact-tracing-could-free-america-from-its-quarant

Trinh

Trinhnomics

Great paper by a fellow @CarnegieEndow nonfellow @FGodement on the role of the @WHO and the coronavirus crisis we are facing globally. Allow me to summarize his key pts (thanks

SEGA L'éveilleur®🚨

segalink

We abuse terms in Nigeria and render them meaningless due to our targeted connotation. There are many of such and I will pick just one for today. SELFLESSNESS...this loosely describes

@hjellebrian

hjellebrian1

THREAD. It's beginning to look likely, even probable, that we owe the pandemic of COVID-19 to lax biocontainment of bat viruses at Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).I do not say

Rachel Glennerster

rglenner

At today's briefing of Permanent Representations in Geneva I talked about the huge economic benefits of vaccines in preparation for the Global Vaccine Summit on June 4 for @Gavi replenishment

Steven Sinofsky

stevesi

Much is being said about the role of WHO and China in the pandemic (please don't say "who"…W H O). There's a misunderstanding of how WHO works. While there are

Aïcha

A__Aicha

Oui, pour avoir une immunité collective, il faut 60% d’infectés. En espérant que toute personne infectée développe une immunité.https://twitter.com/jalybadiane/status/1252301639840645120 Qu’est-ce une immunité collective? En gros, c’est lorsque la co

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

ID2020 is an organisation pursuing the implementation of digital Identity Documents for everyone in the world, as the name suggests, starting in 2020. How are they planning on implementing this?

el gato malo

boriquagato

this study finds that early cov-19 cases in the US were 80X higher than reportedthis validates what many of us has been saying for months:this disease was much more widespread/much

Ron Nehring

RonNehring

1/ INSIDE Russia, Putin’s government aggressively promotes vaccination against preventable diseases as an important public health measure. OUTSIDE Russia, Kremlin-controlled media outlets aggressively spread anti-vaccine hysteria and fear. Here’s

Alfred Kim

alhkim

(1) On behalf of all the authors and @rheum_covid, @jeffsparks and I present the consequences of disseminating rapidly assembled studies, specifically the use #hydroxychloroquine in #COVID19. Now out on @AnnalsofIM.

AlainCo #JeSuisPrometheen

alain_co

Je vais lancer un thread, sur ma vision de la suite #covid19... avis éclairés bienvenus, parce que moi, je suis juste une oreille...@cfhinor @ScornDes @BioHospitalix Initialement j'étais plutot team #ZeroCovid,

David Fisman

DFisman

Canada lost its Covid vaccine under the FIPPA pushed through by PM Harper.Political journalists: you want a scandal?Here’s your scandal.https://canadians.org/fipa-info IMO this isn't the biggest Canadian vaccine fail. 10 years

Craig Spencer MD MPH

Craig_A_Spencer

I have a really important message for you New York. Please share.Sadly I know a lot about disease-induced hysteria in NYC. This message is not to cause panic, but prevent