#Pandemics

Hugo Dante

HugoDanteJr

These takes are misguided/dishonest. They don’t recognize that what is historically a major strength of the US, federalism, is not conducive to effective pandemic response. Pandemics require centralized and uniform

Virginia Heffernan

page88

Anyone know what became of this impressive April 2020 vow — and the $1b?https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/technology/jack-dorsey-donate-1-billion-coronavirus.html Thanks to @felixsalmon, quick data on Dorsey’s big gifts: $15m each to C

MikeP

UK_Optimist

Thread from an eminent Professor of Medicine...."When I learned my trade at med school we were taught that pandemics spread in waves through populations.First wave killed a lot of people, then

Matthew Lesh

matthewlesh

The biggest untold story of 2020 is that Moderna took just 48 hours in Jan to develop a 95% effective vaccine. It then took 11 months for vaccinations to begin

Greg Dworkin

DemFromCT

what if ... hear me out... there are no undecideds with trump and his numbers stay this way? what if coronavirus gets worse and the economy stays the same or

Lev Taylor

levvity

In every country, when things get bad, the upper classes tell a story to blame Jews and push away blame from themselves. In Russia, the Tsarists put out a fake

Rakyat: Faten

twt_malaysia

TOP 8 POINTS IN COVID19 PRIVATE-PUBLIC INTEGRATION by Dr Low Kah Pin @gynaepenangDisclaimer: I am a gynae, NOT public health expert,NOT epidemiologistNOT infectious disease specialistNOT covidologistBut here's a few things

Danielle Belardo, MD

DBelardoMD

When are we going to start talking about the fact that this pandemic was caused by eating animals? If it’s not this zoonotic disease, it will be the next one.

June Girvin 😷

ProfJuneG

Who is writing the post-Covid Nursing strategy? I assume someone must be and I am requesting the following to be included:1. Staffing ratios for: RN to patient; RN to other

Gary Paul Hermit ‏ن

enternoon

Can't give details but I'm about to go into a work situation where I'm very likely to get the Rona. The reason I'm saying this is NOT to look for

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

There's increasing medical consensus that indoor spread of covid takes place through floating aerosol particles. If your environs are warm and dry year round (like my place in San Fernando

Rob Richards, DSc

NonselfMutation

1/4 Research in tertiary education - a thread - Every now and then the question is raised as to why research is conducted by tertiary education institutions. For the life

Diane Marie

DianeMariePosts

I perceive that the Conservatives and their pet punditry are purposely engendering anxiety about the vaccine. There is *no* silver bullet for this pandemic. This isn't going to be the

Presbycast🎙️🎤🔊🎶🍕🥩🌮

presbycast

We look forward to a future where states will just be numbered (not by order of admission, duh) but randomly, because equity. Counties, too, will be numbered. Or maybe states

Charlotte Clymer 🏳️‍🌈

cmclymer

This month, 19 years ago, a terrorist tried to detonate a shoe bomb on a flight to Miami. It happened 3 months after 9/11, and it's why we still remove

Erik Angner

ErikAngner

Now that factory farming is implicated in three of the greatest threats to humankind – global pandemics, antibiotic resistance, and climate change – it is very hard to defend consuming

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