#Preventable

Jason Abaluck

Jabaluck

COVID was a preventable disaster. Many ideas existed that could have helped that were not tried because no one had an incentive to test them. The government can provide incentives

el gato malo

boriquagato

this is exactly what many of us were predicting back in march.the knock on effects of lockdown are not just economic.it's going to kill more people than covid.this is an

Lauren Peace

LaurenMPeace

Things are dark right now. I’m so happy to have fellow journalists and friends out there grinding away and working to tell stories that matter. It makes it all a

Amy Maxmen, PhD

amymaxmen

Deeply honored to have won a @AAASKavli Gold Award for my feature @NatureNews It is a profile of @Tedros & @WHO as they tackled #Ebola in DR Congo. It foreshadowed

John Tulloch

JT_EpiVet

New Paper Alert! #OpenAccessDog bite hospital admissions triple in adults in last 20 yearsLargest ever epi study into dog bites in UKhttp://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-81527-7Huge group effort, lots of thanks and love to

Rachel Hardeman, PhD, MPH

RRHDr

5:30 pm I celebrated w/ my husband @EmedinaEduardo who received the #CovidVaccine after caring tirelessly for #COVID19 patients for months. 8 hours later we laid together in the darkness mourning

Human Rights Watch

hrw

Happy #HumanRightsDay ! Here’s a thread of courageous and inspiring moments from an extremely difficult year. Share your inspiring moments in the replies below. https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/12/10/inspiring-stories-human-rights-day-2020#I

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

On March 10, 2020, I addressed the question, "Could Covid kill 1 million Americans?"/thread I recalled my first meeting with President Obama @BarackObama. It was in the Roosevelt Room of

Nathan T. Kearns, Ph.D.

NathanKearnsPhD

New Publication AlertSummary: Trauma-related stress induction after acute alcohol consumption (.06% BAC) increased willingness to drive, while lessening perceived likelihood of getting in an accident and being pulled over by

Christopher Glyer

cglyer

2020 was full of major cyber events. Here is an end of year #ff thread of some of the most impactful people and research that I leveraged in my work

Jennifer Brea🦒

jenbrea

I agree we shouldn’t dismiss brain retraining—some people do benefit/there is a there there. @julierehmeyer explains the dangers of extrapolating from individual “success stories” and what is pernicious about programs

Ruth #BLM

FullofRuth

Let’s carry this fiasco onto the world stage and look at the damage unfolding there. The visible destruction of American democracy and the rise of fascistic thinking in America legitimizes

ash mogg

ashmogg

For #RecoveryMonth , I want to take a moment to touch on the way that shame, stigma, & discrimination contribute to the oppression and marginalization of drug users. (1/?) Stigma

Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos

DrVivianS

THREAD.What I love most about @DrFullertonMPP & her team () is that they won't respond to me but instead they go around me to those in my circle in the

Afrah Nasser

Afrahnasser

It’s brutal what’s happening against civilians in Yemen. I don’t know how much more suffering civilians can tolerate. Life is already hell in Yemen. The designation would have disastrous ramification

People's City Council - Los Angeles

PplsCityCouncil

Jokes aside about how the earthquake was an act of god to smite valley electeds for being exceptionally awful, it was a grim reminder of how fragile our disaster relief

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