#Effectiveness

Back to #crisis #communicaton basics: During crisis and disaster the public wants to know what's going on. Many may be directly impacted by the event(s) and there may be public
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‘Gao Fu told a conference in Chengdu on Saturday that the country was examining two routes “to solve the problem that the efficacy of its existing vaccines is not high”.’https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3129053/china-
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Let's talk B117 and why I don't think this variant is going to deter our progress. What are 3 things you worry about with a variant? 1) Increased transmissibility; 2)
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It is peak American transit to assume that planning decisions that raise ticket prices and repel low-income riders are inherent to train tracks, and that equity requires an entirely new
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When the #COVID19 lockdown was imposed in India in March, leading public figures & journalists spread the prediction that over 3-500mn Indians would be infected and upto 2mn would die
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The letter from the treating physician for the US president is emblematic of “VIP medicine”. Almost none of it is a good idea even on its own, and no one
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In 1975 & 1988, Roy G. Saltman, master's in electrical engineering from MIT, wrote 2 very interesting articles for NIST (his employer) on computerizing vote-tallying. His conclusion in 1975 could
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A brief thread on my personal thoughts on the utility of "very soft" martial arts.I "am" a white belt (entry level novice) in traditional karate and judo, based on lessons
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Cloth masks can carry virus and in universal practice are meant to protect others from you. Here’s a simple design for one with added filter. Pull out filter, wash mask,
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I love @99piorg. I think the podcast gives us so much about how to think about the world around us......which is why I'm so troubled by hearing @romanmars promoting fearmongering
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What is Nudge? And Nudge design?1 - Nonmanipulative by design. It aligns with a 'beneficial behavior that the individual would like to adopt'. It's not done to people. 2 -
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Just got off the phone with US President @realDonaldTrump. We had a very constructive discussion on our health responses to #COVID19 and the need to get our market-led and business
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What does lockdown mean and its implication for fiscal policy & related govt policies https://egrowfoundation.org/research/lockdown-economics-fiscal-policy-during-pandemic-crises/ 2/lde https://egrowfoundation.org/research/growth-implic
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1/10 Great working with @DChalloumas88 on this systematic review @BMJOpenSEM. Thanks also to @TendonGlasgow @LornaPaul and Grant Syme for all their input. https://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/bmjosem/6/1/e000760.full.pdf 2/10 There has been s
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since singapore is making tracetogether mandatory for everything starting from june, this thread is worth readingthe tl;dr is that voluntary contact tracing has become mandatory and is being used as
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After the lockdown. We saw its effectiveness. Number of Corona virus cases increased but not that much. So the only way was for only essential workers to keep going to
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