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Mike Birbiglia
birbigs
Before this I couldn’t imagine a scenario where 20,000 Americans die and the president doesn’t grieve or even pretend to show empathy. We should never stop talking about how this
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Bharadwaj
BharadwajSpeaks
Until 19th century in India, there was a group of selfless scholarly Brahmins whose job was treating people during Pandemic.They used to travel village to village & vaccinate everyone without
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Abiy Ahmed Ali 🇪🇹
AbiyAhmedAli
COLLECTIVELY OVERCOMING #COVID19Over the last thousands of years, humankind has dealt with many strains of endemics, epidemics and pandemics. Many of these outbreaks hit a part of the world while
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Beatrice Cherrier
Undercoverhist
Seems important for econs (& everyone, in fact) to follow historians of medicine/epidemiology, if only to learn lessons from history of econ & epi side by side. So here's a
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Trevor Bedford
trvrb
There are effectively two #COVID19 epidemics in the US at this moment; one largely resolving epidemic comprised of non-variant viruses and one growing epidemic of B.1.1.7. Together they have resulted
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Benjamin Black
BenjamBlack
Frightening times for all #healthworkers. In #maternity & #SRH services we must continue with exceptional demands of #COVID19. A few thoughts from previous #epidemics to make our work safer for
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manvir singh
mnvrsngh
Grand narratives of history often center on interactions among ideas, polities, & Great Individuals (esp. Great Men). But one of the important & overlooked actors is disease! Here are some
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Dr Musa Mohd Nordin
drmusanordin
A brief history of EPIDEMICSDr Musa Mohd NordinChairman, FIMA Advisory Council6 April 2020 218 Hijrah / 818 ADEpidemic in EgyptEvery household was infectedMany of their governors and leaders died 228 Hijrah /
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Krittivas Mukherjee
Krittivasm
1/n India is now locked down for 40 days, a number that has an interesting history in global pandemics. Between 1345 and 1360, bubonic plague devastated Europe. The city of
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Amy Maxmen, PhD
amymaxmen
The thing that irks me about California is smugness & self-congratulatory behavior. NYC is incredibly dense & runs on public transportation. Some of Cali's cities are so expensive that only
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WorldCoffeeResearch
WCoffeeResearch
What can we learn about pandemics from looking at the history of plant epidemics? This week we’re going to dive down on coffee leaf rust, the most dastardly of coffee
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Carl T. Bergstrom
CT_Bergstrom
1. A short thread about best and worst case models of coronavirus.I've talked about how the @UW_IHME model strikes me as a best case model (at least given current data
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Peter Manseau
plmanseau
Worth noting: The "Jesus is my vaccine" crowd at the anti-shutdown rallies already lost this fight--almost exactly 300 years ago. And the most prominent Christian clergyman in America delivered the
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Wallace Kantai
wgkantai
One day someone will write THE book about perhaps the most devastating pandemic to ever hit East Africa. No, not Covid or even the 1918 flu, but the twin rinderpest
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Stephen Reicher
ReicherStephen
Will the pandemic inevitably lead to scapegoating?Does something deep in our psychology lead us to blame others for our misery.Just as the black death led to violent anti-semitism are we
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Ann Leckie ☕
ann_leckie
See, people who work service jobs have *always* had to come in sick, come in when their lives are falling apart, whatever. The folks who have never had to take
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