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I spent 8 months investigating how exploitation, poverty & discrimination drove COVID—and why scientists haven’t really addressed these issues, despite studying them for 150 years. “Where is the urgency?” asks

NEW flight report on corona transmission on flights:13 people appear to have been infected on a 7-hr flight to Ireland this summer, leading to 59 cases as passengers visited friends

Anti-mask groups are flourishing on @Facebook. Zuckerberg should see that by feeding these flames, he puts people I love -- and people who others love -- at risk of death.

The Trump Admin has frozen funds to @WHO & is ramping up threats, including a latest, vague demand to met within 30 days. “This proposal is like removing the windows

Since I covered #Ebola in DRC extensively, I've thought about this a lot. Many people didn't want to listen to me explain why community pushback against the Ebola response had

Part 2. Trump just announced he is suspending funding to @WHO while a review is conducted *THIS IS DESPICABLE* My last thread gave a timeline of WHO actions. Now, here's

Trump just announced he is suspending funding to @WHO while a review is conducted *THIS IS DESPICABLE* Let me lay out how WHO has responded to #COVID19 since Jan 5

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

(1/2) Armed group ADF massacred dozens in #Beni #DRC this month & displaced many more. Now protestors take to the streets to demand protection. "It is not acceptable to see