#Epidemic

1. Last week Pres Trump in a tweet instead of saying history said "HUSTORY" was it a nod or a mistake? After a bit of research, let us assume it
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Off the top of my head thread on (modern) scholars of plague in the Middle East (apologies in advance/add more!) Starting with Michael Dols, who wrote the first comprehensive survey
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tl;dr sec #30* @csima @Scott_Helme on securing your home network* @libber lessons learned from running Facebook & Uber's #bugbounty program* @0xdabbad00 gotchas in setting up isolated networks in #AWS* @alsmola
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I do not know enough but I know stats well enough. The peak of the epidemic in the world seems over for now. In the USA total deaths is not
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Here's a Twitter thread on published & upcoming podcast episodes on #COVID19, that I've had the privilege to record and learn from. 1. @kiranshaw on how India is gearing up
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cannot say this enough: #ACTUP is one of USAs most important political movements; and for us GenXers, it’s probably the most important one of our lifetime.too many of us would
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An important read on a "paradox" of calculating the R. The overall R is useful to determine whether we have an epidemic, but the failure to recognise that it's actually
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HUGE. **Rapid** 15 min tests approved by @WHO—a bold & right step for #COVID19. Akin to home pregnancy tests, rapid antigen tests better than PCR where labs scares & lag
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1) I'd like to deal with this thread as there are a lot of misleading assertions about the possibility of a civilization collapse triggered by the climate and ecological crisis.https://twitter.com/NiranjanAjit/status/1387373159435829249
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I'll start this off by saying I hope and pray for a swift end to the pandemic, and am deeply concerned for all those currently in the line of fire.As
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Today I'll be live tweeting (Chu et al. June 1, 2020), the best systematic literature review on the effects of masks, distance, and eye protection that I am aware of:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)311
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A partial list of warnings that Trump and senior admin officials received months or years before impeachment:https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1244992608423890955 In Jan 2017, a week before Trump takes office, Obama staffers run a
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There’s often a moment in the third act of a Hitchcock thriller – “the big reveal” – when the scales fall from the eyes of the hapless central character &
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It's the first Monday of Eastertide here in Hong Kong, a lovely, sunny, breezy day with incredibly nice air quality, and around the world people are dying of a novel
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Today is #IDEVAW2020, and this year has been marked by increasing violence against women globally in part due to pandemic lockdown measures.Mainstream organizations established to protect women are failing as
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The data is trickling in, and it reveals disproportionately high rates of both #COVID19 infection as well as mortality in Black communities. This is an epidemic within the pandemic. A
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