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Good morning in sad, jealous tweets. All schools in Taiwan have been open since February. They did not listen to China or WHO in January and immediately masked up and
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Can we please have a talk with the photo editors? ENOUGH WITH THE BEACH PICTURES ruining articles. Beaches are one of the least risky environments. Indoor bars and restaurants. House
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"Increasing evidence has shown that asymptomatic individuals can spread the virus efficiently, and the emergence of these silent spreaders of SARS-CoV-2 hascaused difficulties in the control of the epidemic."https://twitter.com/Er
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We hear a lot about polarization. And then there's reality. Poll done after the unrest shows *only* 4% says Chauvin, the police officer who killed Floyd, should not have been
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I keep seeing deep legal analyses of Trump's executive order on social media, wondering if it might hurt him and what Twitter might do. But hey, *look* over here. Trump's
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I've seen many stories/tweets about two hairstylists who exposed 140 people by working for *eight days* while symptomatic. One, this shouldn't happen. Two, where's the follow up? Is anyone actually
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For months, New York sent more than 4,300 recovering elderly COVID patients back to nursing homes because of a Coumo directive. I don't get how this isn't the biggest news.
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I had a discussion about high-end coffee machines and looked one up on phone (not buying one!). Only FB app on phone is WhatsApp. Went on computer (guest mode on
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Amazing study, supporting droplet (rather than aerosol) as key means of transmission. One asymptomatic person infected 10 (out of 91) at restaurant—but *only* if they were in direct line of
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Today both France and Spain (two badly hit countries) have come out with seroprevalence numbers. (France is a model, paper linked below. Spain was representative sample/survey of 60K; I don't
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They found six new cases in Wuhan so they’re planning to test eleven million people over the next ten days. Neither number is a typo.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-wuhan-idUSKBN22N24F So I guess that clears
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Another crucial study showing how dangerous indoor situations can be. An alarming 94 (out of 216) people on the same floor in a call center in Korea got infected—an attack
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