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Why is the Kumbh Mela universally blamed for the violent outbreak in India while the protests in the US were not responsible for a single case? Kumbh involved a lot

Twitter has now explained its decision, hours later, and the explanation is as stunning as the original act. First, it claims information whose obtainment has not been authorized - by

On February 25 I was in Vietnam, starting to worry about Covid (Vietnam looked like the most vulnerable country on earth). Had a few days to kill before my scheduled

Is this an experience people have? I don’t think I remember hearing from anyone anywhere in the world (political elites or the man on the street) that they hold the

The perplexing thing is that both Putin and Xi had their best years from 2013 to 2016 - not under Trump, who certainly has little or none of his predecessor’s

Remember when containing the spread was a moral imperative of the highest order? When even to argue for a less strict lockdown in American cities was to defend the sacrifice

What was the fundamental, systemic mistake made by Western societies that explains the virus disaster? I just can’t see that it was the lack of redundancies and fragility a la

Why has Vietnam been so successful? Because it reacted early and it reacted early because it hacked the Chinese response authorities to find out what was really happeninghttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cyber-vietnam-idUSKCN2241C

Reminder that Chinese authorities knew from at least January 3 that there was human to human transmission. @who was denying it on January 14https://twitter.com/macaesbruno/status/1247673860213874689 There seems to be some @AP

I am stunned to see serious modelers argue that we should compare infection growth in different countries on absolute terms rather than per capita You are telling me population size

More and more reports that ventilators are the wrong response to Covid and that what patients need is oxygen I wonder if the politicization of the ventilator question (as the

Wuhan hospitals were preparing for a pandemic on December 30. Read thishttps://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Q8Nn-HIRDKO6OCXFZxmzVQ On January 3, Wuhan University concludes there is human transmission Our interpretation of the events will have to