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The CDC says that “less than 10%” of Covid transmission occurs outdoors. Which sounds like a lot of outdoors transmission. If anything close to 10% was correct, it would mean

Does it make sense to wear a mask outdoors most of the time? Short answer: No. The science doesn’t support it. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/22/briefing/police-shooting-putin-russia-blake-bailey.html?referringSource=articleShare There a

A thread on a Justice Barrett and a new Lochner era — in which the Supreme Court becomes an even more aggressive opponent of corporate regulation and oversight... In her

Explicitly refusing to answer a question is rarely smart or sustainable in politics. Remember Elizabeth Warren and the question about private health insurance? She eventually answered it, and the delay

When people - including political allies - feel comfortable defying the president, it's both a sign of his weakness and a cause of further weakness. It means others have decided

There's a growing push among public-health experts to encourage people to go outdoors. It seems to represent a new stage in the virus response.(Thread...) When the lockdowns began almost two

The country’s cities — historically the nation’s engines of opportunity — often exacerbate inequities today. We've got charts. (1/n)https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/13/opinion/inequality-cities-life-expectancy.html The average life exp

My first reaction to the news that the coronavirus seems to have spread more widely than known (eg 20% of NYC residents) was optimism. But my conversations with epidemiologists made