#Pandemics

Matt Ridley

mattwridley

Thread on the new strain of SARS2 in the UK.It's more than just a single mutation: 14 non-synonymous changes and several deletions.https://virological.org/t/preliminary-genomic-characterisation-of-an-emergent-sars-cov-2-lineage-in-the-u

Scott Forbes

lsf58

#mbpoli #MOFA My takeaway from the current round of bargaining between the U of Manitoba and UMFA. UMFA was never up against just the U of Manitoba: given what Pallister

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

DrTedros

Global health is not a charity, it’s an investment for all people everywhere - in their well-being, equity, livelihoods & futures. Here is my conversation with my sister @DrSenait on

Anosognosiogenesis

pookleblinky

So, longcovid occurs in at least 30% of cases. We know this.One common post-viral outcome is chronic fatigue.Encephalitis lethargica epidemics erupted in the wakes of the 1889 Russian Flu and

Louise Norris

LouiseNorris

1. It may be Christmas week, but there's still plenty of new health insurance news. Here's my latest overview: https://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2020/12/23/the-scoop-health-insurance-news-december-23-2020/Follow this thread for a

Amy Baugher

AmyBaugher

1- My dream for public health is that we will stop being embarrassed & apologetic about ourselves. We believe that population-based strategies can improve health and fight disease. This is

Michael “In A Move Likely To Anger China” Mazza

mike_mazza

Brief thread. A few random thoughts on this...On W.H.O. Trip, China Refused to Hand Over Important Datahttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/world/asia/china-world-health-organization-coronavirus.html?smid=tw-share 1. It's time for the WHO

Fury

HooaFury

History of PANDEMICS4 Big PandemicsTHREAD1 — The Black Death"By far the deadliest recorded pandemic, the Black Death probably originated somewhere in Asia in the 14th century. By 1347 it had

Matt Glassman

MattGlassman312

I often have pretty libertarian instincts about things, but a lot of what I’m seeing in regard to the pandemic is just nonsense, a miserable version of libertarianism that doesn’t

Ed Yong

edyong209

Here are 10 pandemic pieces that I'm especially proud of. 1) On how it came to this.https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191/ 2) This one from March--the first of the really big pieces, ab

Dani

xodanix3

Being a homemaker is a job. The day that we learn to separate this labor from gender and marital status is when we can move closer towards actually compensating ppl

Jordan Ellenberg

JSEllenberg

This viral post is correct that you need to think about COVID in the US as a bunch of regional pandemics; but it's not Simpson's paradox.https://twitter.com/mbeckett/status/1278750652160634880 Simpson's paradox would be

Sara

indymeansindy

There is a brilliant thread (at end of my thread ) which explains very well what I have been trying to say for months.Please can I encourage you to read

Andrew Tabner

AndrewTabner

The #CERAStudy studied levels of distress & trauma in 5440 doctors working in anaesthetics, emergency medicine & intensive care during the peak of the first wave of the pandemic. The

BuzzFeed News

BuzzFeedNews

No one was prepared for the coronavirus pandemic.But after a long 2020, here are 13 things about the virus that we didn't know at the start of the year. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zahrahirji/13-coronavirus-facts-2020?bftwnews&

Sonya Childress

SonyaChildress

Some news. This Feb I stepped into a two-year role as Senior Fellow with Perspective Fund, where I’ll conduct field-building research & advance new initiatives to support social impact media

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