#Pandemics

Sean Kelly

StorySlug

The reason the South is hobbled by the winter weather is kinda the same reason we were hobbled by the pandemic - GOP politicians refuse to spend money preparing for

CAP Immigration

CAPimmigration

NEW data from @amprog’s @NSvajlenka highlights the contributions of #undocumented essential workers across sectors including health care, food supply, construction, and the care economy.https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/

John Culver

JohnCulver689

1/Depending on how the chaos and incompetence of Trump/GOP pandemic mismanagement and miscommunication play out when it comes to masks, social distancing, and vaccination in coming months... 2/ it's quite

Peter Daszak

PeterDaszak

.@WHO Scientific Director @doctorsoumya kicks off Day 2 of the @rd_blueprint mtg. We're going to hear about what the key research goals for COVID are over the next 6-12 months.

Jens Boman

JensBoman

A fundamental error that some people make, including decision makers in Sweden, is to look at a pandemic as a purely biological system. If your belief is that the epidemic

Anna Gifty is on IG and says #SACE2021

itsafronomics

So... I read that Larry Summers op-ed. Frankly, I don't completely understand the whole thing, but he said something that isn't entirely true:"Unemployment is falling." Sure, but labor non participation

A girl has no name

LoudMouthedChic

Here's the thing about prison inmates in South Africa, right.1. Our criminal justice system is horribly overburdened and many matters can take months or even years to reach finality. If

PoliMath

politicalmath

For Marginally Compelling today, I started with an interview with @chrisvcsefalvay a data scientist & epidemiologist who has worked in pandemics before.If you're short on time, skip to 23:00 where

Steve Saideman

smsaideman

This is a fun tweet butthe US will need to engage in a counter-insurgency campaign against white supremacy ... just like it did in the 1990s.https://twitter.com/MattGallagher0/status/1350141040343265284 When a counter insurgency

Elaine Doyle

laineydoyle

We have had 5,573 positive swabs in the last 24 hours.Allowing that Quality Assurance will eventually discard about 5-10% as duplicates or otherwise invalid, that's about 5,000 new cases of

Terry #SlavesNoMore

America1stGal

Cloth masks—dangerous to your health?The widespread use of cloth masks by healthcare workers may actually put them at increased risk of respiratory illness and viral infections and their global use

Justin Bariso

JustinJBariso

"Offer as much flexibility as possible."Microsoft's new 6-word remote work policy is brilliant. Here's why.A thread Facts: Your employees aren't just workers, they're individuals. Real people with different workin

Joshua T Monrad

jtmonrad

Our paper "Promoting versatile vaccine development for emerging pandemics," with @JonasSandbrink and @EnergCh, is now out in @Nature_NPJ Vaccines!We started this research in June of last year, so it's exciting

Lakshmi Krishnan

TheLakshmiK

I've been thinking a lot about a great question that came up in conversation b/ween me, @DrChelleMD, @AJohnsonHist on a webinar hosted by @eben_kirksey. We were discussing historiography of 1918-19

AQ

Evollaqi

It's questionable whether this is true. But let's suppose it is.The only silver lining to this pandemic – and the only accomplishments of any society not in the few which

Hetan Shah

HetanShah

‘Epidemics are social as well as biological phenomena.’ My @nature piece on the importance of social science and humanities in tackling our big global challengeshttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00064-x Very helpful crowd sourc

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