#Pandemic

On Point

OnPointRadio

Today: Risk distortion is a problem when it comes to public health. How do we understand what the real risks are? What's the right way to communicate risk without overselling

Francis Hoar

Francis_Hoar

Surprise, surprise. The Year Zero idea that we can end a pandemic through vaccination - which has never happened before - has feet of sand. Every other respiratory pandemic has

Adrianne Russell

adriannerussell

It's seems our impulse is to say "Once COVID's over I'm gonna see a play or musical or the ballet or go to a museum, etc" and not even think

Reed Hundt

rehundt

1/ failure of government: "in March and April, Congress passed an unprecedented $3 trillion in economic relief to combat the coronavirus pandemic and the recession it caused. Since then, Congress

Thijs

notmobydick

Am I correct in the assumption that allowing the virus to spread among the "young and healthy" with stronger immune response means allowing for the conditioned emergence of variants even

Swenson

daswenson

As I see folks are honking about Trump era ethanol waivers and ostensible *demand destruction* of some 4 billion gallons of ethanol, a short thread.1/ First, we see that just

Jay Hulme

JayHulmePoet

I don't want to get embroiled in Anglican Twitter Discourse but it's important to note that while a second lockdown is definitely not ideal, it is not the end of

Constant Vigilance!

silverwoman04

This piece on NPR this morning ends with a woman asking men to ask their partners for one thing to do each day to help. A man who asked me

James Caulfield Entertainer

JamesCaulf

Imagine you were born in 1900.When you're 14, World War I begins and ends when you're 18 with 22 million dead.Soon after a global pandemic, the Spanish Flu, appears, killing

Parveen Kaswan, IFS

ParveenKaswan

Today is Earth #OvershootDay. It is a day when we already consumed all the biological resources that Earth can renew during the entire year.Now we need 1.6 #earths to meet

Esther Rockett 🚀

EstherRockett

Attention #strandedAussies: I've just blogged an in depth analysis of figures showing that @ScottMorrisonMP gov flight caps are a disproportionate response to #COVID19Aus made worse by negligence #auspol https://estherrockett.com/2021/0

Jason Furman

jasonfurman

Some confusion about the term "pent up demand".Short version, should distinguish btwn:"Excess savings" (which we know households, in aggregate, have)"Pent up demand" (a hypothesis that people will buy more this

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

It is the duty of infectious disease epidemiologists advising governments to err on the side of caution. They advise on (or rather warn about) the risks of worst case scenarios,

Gigi Sohn

gigibsohn

WATCH: @EnergyCommerce hearing on how to get every household in America connected to #broadband. The right topic 4 the 1st E&C hearing in 2021.https://energycommerce.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/hearing-on-connecting-america-br

Jonathan Husband

jonnyhusband1

I listened to @bbc5live this morning in absolute despair.People ringing up to say the govt has done a good job during this pandemic.People accusing others of being doom mongers for

anne marie, certified vampire researcher

cherrizard

a year ago when we were first hearing about COVID, I expressed concern about it - and was told by nearly everyone I was overreacting and it wouldn’t come to

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