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The widely-shared NYT story Trump admin's meddling with the CDC has really worrying claims unsupported by the science. It should make multiple corrections. No, it is not "normal" or okay
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Friendly reminder: check your spam folder at least once a week. Spam is a wicked problem and while algorithmic classification has gotten fairly good, it will necessarily miss stuff. Important
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Some families can manage to keep their kids learning and less-stressed. Others, with less resources, won't be able to do so. I suspect the ones left behind will pay a
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Those COVID apps some colleges are trying to force students to download? Worse than useless. You know what else is worse than useless? Bringing the students together for a few
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I do not understand the logic of the graphs in this (NYT article shared with alarm) article at all. At best, they're uninformative, but at worst, wildly misleading. Percent share
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I want to highlight that there has been a lot of work by black women documenting *exactly this* this for years. In addition to @digitalsista, please look for (and credit
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Remarkable that a media person can write "Do you think a single person outside the Beltway gives a hoot..." without realizing it means that so many of in media failed
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Well. So this happened.As I told @benyt, I feel charmed that I get to do this: do my best to call things as I see it regardless of considerations of
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"Now that she's in the media spotlight." Oh, my. "Now that you've, accidentally and inexplicably landed in the spot that I deserved, but was unfathomably denied, perhaps because I'm
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Important piece on immediate-result paper tests for COVID. Too often, media describes them as "less accurate." Wrong framework! They're useful in detecting contagiousness—not mere presence of virus which can show
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We urgently need to focus on ventilation. Six months into a respiratory pandemic, we're still not given sensible and practical guidance against short-range aerosol—airborne—transmission of COVID. I wrote about the
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Enough with the beach-scolding! It's not scientifically-sound and it's counterproductive. It's a virus—not a moral agent geared to smite people who dare enjoy themselves. Six months in, we *know* most
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