#Studies

So - re testing capacity, we have a % each day carved out for patients and symptomatic people who need a test and a % for outbreak support, screening in
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SOMETHINGS WRONG WITH MEI judt finished watching nuggts prank vlog and naiinis ako. And hindi ko alam kung bakit. irld if it is inis or inggit but i assume its
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Genuine question: How many cases of COVID are we catching with the temperature checks or screening questions at the door to medical centers?It sort of feels like a "Thing We
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Today, this new preprint from John Ioannidis (of "Most Published Research Findings Are False" fame) went onlineAlready up to Altmetric of 541Let's do a rapid peer-review on twitter 1/n 2/n
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why the phrase “theres only 2 genders” doesn’t make sense anymore— a thread so let’s just point out the obvious, gender ≠ sex. gender is a social construct whilst sex
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1. My new paper with @kimmelmanJ is out at @ScienceMagazine. “Pandemic Research Exceptionalism” is the idea that the urgency of a crisis warrants lowering #research standards. We argue against this
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Can I get real with y’all for a second? I question being open about my faith because I fear opinions of others, but I used to share my take on
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several months back, the danes undertook a large, randomized, controlled mask studyit has been completed for some timethe lead investigator says they will publish it "as soon as a journal
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River Saraswati, Rigveda, Mahabharata and Our Civilization. Saraswati has been a point of discussion when we look at the antiquity of civilization. It has been concluded that gradually drying Saraswati
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Apparently the UCD Confucius Institute under the label “The Irish Institute for Chinese Studies” can hire permanent faculty to teach at UCD and nobody in university management seems to think
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If you're under 50, your odds of dying if you contract COVID-19 is ~0.013% or 1 in 8000. This is similar to the odds of dying in a car accident
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Disability studies folk: What are some of your favorite recent pieces (books, blog posts, lectures) on disability (loosely defined). I'm revising my syllabus, and am especially looking for material on
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Asked by @mkraju why he was promoting the use of hydroxychloroquine, the president said, “If you look at the one survey, the only bad survey, they were giving it to
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Statistically speaking, a home invasion or using your gun to defend your family is significantly less likely than that someone will use the gun to kill themselves or someone else,
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People either care that you’re dying, or they don’t. It’s not rocket surgery. We keep finding new language to describe some pretty simple shit. It’s not necessary. And it’s deliberately
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My latest paper, for @IRPP: “Reimagining the Canadian Federation through an Urban Lens.”TL;DR Canadian cities don’t need new constitutional protections. They need a new intergovernmental infrastructure. (thread)@UrbanPolicyLab @munksc
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