#Reallocation

Dr. Sonali Vaid MD MPH

SonaliVaid

Thread of various #covid19gaps & #covid19questions related to the public health & humanitarian response & planning that I have posted over time. . Pick any to work on or

Winnipeg Police Cause Harm

WpgPoliceHarm

Thanks to all our new followers after today's police board meeting. Something we get asked a lot by media and politicians is....you don't mean defund ALL of the police do

Tim

timgburns

Car use will be back to normal levels by the end of July (based on increases seen over the past month). This could happen even faster as lockdown is lifted

Chris Masterjohn

ChrisMasterjohn

Why is PPE considered first for medical personnel?It should be considered first for the massive labor force that should be reallocated to making more PPE. That way the medical personnel

Defund Charlottesville Police

defundcpd

Dear C-Ville City Council Members, The police violence on the Charlottesville Downtown Mall on July 8, 2020 represents one of many reasons why the community is calling C-ville City Council

are you a disease modeler?

Sister_Bettina

NGO’s - are donors/grantees/philanthropists who fund your organisations also supporting you with the impact this Coronavirus pandemic has on your operations? Are they cutting funding? Asking for justification of spending?

Jason Furman

jasonfurman

Contrary to the increasingly widespread view, I think the U.S. reliance on unemployment insurance is likely to be a *better* way to maintain employment relations than if we had partially

Tomas Hirst

tomashirstecon

The U.K. should not be ending the Job Retention Scheme right now, but since the government continues to go down this route despite clear evidence that the pandemic is not

Pen Bennett

PenEngineer

@JaalaPulford meet my kids, shopping by bike. Safe on albeit too narrow shared paths! We enjoy travel (no car). We don‘t enjoy streets with unsafe speeds/no protected bike lanes. Please:

Tomas Hirst

tomashirstecon

The 100% guarantees became necessary because getting loan funding to the worst affected sectors via commercial banks with risk limits required it. The choice over what to do next (allow

Fred Destin

fdestin

1/ How's venture activity? @yanroux has just published a great survey of 64 Euro & UK venture funds - key takes below. 2/ Predictably the venture market is slowing -

Dr. Allan McDougall

phdhpe

[THREAD] I’m going to be sharing stories about the resident doctors whose lives have been impacted by the @Royal_College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada’s decision to postpone its Spring

Ben Casselman

bencasselman

So, here's where I am on the #JobsReport right now:First, we should never read too much into any one report, *especially* in moments like now when so much is changing.

Matt Clancy

mattsclancy

US GDP per capita growth averaged 2.25%/yr in the back half of the 20th century, but only 1% so far in the the 21st century. Is this evidence of recent

Brad Setser

Brad_Setser

Central banks around the world sold well over $100 billion in long-term Treasuries in March. Those sales came when private U.S. investors were also selling. The dollar's role in

yeven yump

yumpasaurusrex

Thinking about how as of 2010 71% of Native American individuals are living in urban areas... Did y’all know that Baltimore specifically is one of the largest urban Indian communities