#Outbreaks

More problems for global meat giant, and consistent law-breaker, JBS -http://www.foodandpower.net/2019/01/03/jbs-shortchanges-nebraska-ranchers-violating-the-packers-stockyards-act/ JBS yet again breaking rules - this time selling adulterat
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COVID Update November 19: Here’s the idea. It’s a 3 pronged patriotic appeal here for Americans: #BarBonds.Buy bonds. Save lives. Save businesses. (And eat and drink.)1/ We are at a
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Fellow disaster researchers I offer some hope--major outlet news coverage of the compound pandemic-hurricane-wildfire-social justice disaster seems to have absorbed some of our core conceptual premises and empirical findings! 2.
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With the election behind us, it’s time for the US to summon its best, unified effort to contain COVID. So many have been at that since the start, w/ heroism
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JAW DROPPING—a sitting US Senator @SenJoniErnst just peddled **2** #COVID19 conspiracy theories in a row! @joniernst says she’s "skeptical" of deaths, was "really curious" about a debunked QAnon theory &
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The Greater Manchester lockdown was announced on Thursday evening 30 July with a suggestion that new laws were incoming. It is now Monday morning 3 August and as yet no
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BREAKING—The first confirmed case of #monkeypox in the United States this year just confirmed in a Boston individual who recently travelled to Canada, officials said, as concern rises over the
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We can't understand the present if we don't understand the past.This thread will show you the history of death and disease outbreaks in Sweden. All source data is available for
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Alright alright alright folks we've got some COVID data!Testing scale jumped WAY up over the weekend, while the positive rate continued to fall, which is great news! The CFR also
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Dr. Brent Roussin and Health Minister Cameron Friesen presser has begun. Winnipeg TP rate is 6.3% today. Two week change coming, Roussin says. Calls it a sacrifice. Says need to
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In addition to being a fairly nasty respiratory virus, #COVIDー19 can invade the central nervous system and/or cause profound neurological disease. Another reason why MORTALITY is not the only statistic
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THREAD: I know it seems like I'm banging on about it constantly, but the reason I asked Matt Hancock about these local lockdowns *again* today is we still really have
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One of the things I love about my job is that I learn so many new things with every story. That was particularly true in my reporting for this story
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#Thread: 6 mo. ago we launched a #COVID19 Hotline to document abuses in ICE prisons. Since then, we’ve received over 10k calls. We just published our latest report analyzing data
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ThreadAre flights "safe"? This is a question that I have been asked dozens of times by friends/colleagues/mediaThis week, @cdc_eidjournal published a couple of reports of #covid19 transmission on flights- https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid
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Dear medical profession: please get your act together on this. It’s been a few hundred years. You’ve had more than enough time.@AmerMedicalAssn needs to speak out against this behavior, for
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