#Strains

Ezra Klein

ezraklein

First episode of my new podcast is up! It's with @Vivek_Murthy, co-chair of Biden’s coronavirus task force, and you can listen to in full here. But I want to pull

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ This smart 2006 paper discusses the uselessness of lockdowns, masks, and school closings during epidemics.More shocking: the lead authors are @T_Inglesby @JenniferNuzzo (two leading members of Team Apocalypse).What's changed?Not

Ben Alpers 🗽

Ben_Alpers

There are at least two things that distinguish the contemporary GOP from far-right, ethnonationalist parties in Europe: 1) the GOP is (in theory and practice) anti-majoritarian; 2) the GOP remains

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

If you want to come up with a prior* for the possible long-term dynamics of SARS-CoV-2, there are two recent papers that I think are useful... (*Prior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_probability) 1/ First,

Sanjiv J. Shah, MD

HFpEF

#HFpEF pearl of the day: Bike stress echo is very helpful in the evaluation of HFpEF. In 1 test you can diagnose HFpEF (E/e') and evaluate for CAD (WMA), health

Jeff Fischer

FoolJeffFischer

1/ Current landscape: A safely-proven Covid-19 vaccine is not likely until 2021. Vaccinating the world will take more than a year. Some 40% may not get vaccinated. Covid is here

Bill Fitzgerald

funnymonkey

Another day, another person publishing a think piece using flawed and biased data as a reason to put teachers, kids, and their families at risk.A few things worth noting. First,

Fiona Russell

Fiona_M_Russell

#COVID-19 & schools- there have been recent papers from Norway & US & Australian data have found that school mitigation measures prevent onward transmission & that schools are unlikely to

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

John Hayward

Doc_0

That post-9/11 "moment of national unity" was a LOT shorter than we like to remember.We didn't really "come together as a nation." We learned we have common enemies. It didn't

Simply Biochemistry

SimplyBiochem

1) THREAD: The evidence FOR & AGAINST the new UK SARS-CoV-2 variant being more transmissible than the original, making it a new strain. 2) In order for a variant to

Gina Bates

hilltopgina

Speciesism thread No3. Vivisection10 facts out of 100s1. It is estimated that at least 192 million animals are used for scientific purposes worldwide.#EndSpeciesism #govegan 2. This figure includes an estimated

Timothy Wilcox

PreCursorPoets

The sonnet form remains very much in use and is well esteemed.We can look back to Shakespeare's as one of the heights of not just poetry, but English literature overall.

People's Archive of Rural India

PARInetwork

On #WomenFarmersDay, a photo story on the incredible hard yards that women put in each day in agriculture. The landowner here in Anantapur is standing tall while the row of

Paul Romer

paulmromer

On Thursday, @EzraKlein published an important column with discouraging news: the new variants of the corona virus will make it far more difficult to end the pandemic and return to

Aaron Kheriaty, MD

akheriaty

1/ The terms “fascism” and “anti-fascism” are continuously bandied about today. But those who use these words the most seem to understand them least, such that today’s self-styled anti-fascists paradoxically

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