#Deaths

Wendell Potter

wendellpotter

Amid America's #COVID19 disaster, I must come clean about a lie I spread as a health insurance exec: We spent big $$ to push the idea that Canada's single-payer system

Jeremy Berke

jfberke

The House Rules Committee is meeting to discuss the MORE Act now. Follow along:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=furxtOp42xo&feature=emb_title Rep. Woodall says he opposes the MORE Act, but when state and federal law are in

The Stranger 🗞

TheStranger

Our childish obsession with seeing family on holidays is going to kill our families in record numbers. (1/7) People don't respond well to scolds because they don't enjoy others treating

J.B. Handley

GenRescue

1/ this thread is a repudiation of Fauci’s absurd pronouncement that we need 90% for herd immunity. He’s simply a vaccine salesman. Start w reading this by Doshi of BMJ.https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3563

Max Roser

MaxCRoser

Humanity’s history is a battle against the microbes. And for most of our history we were losing very decisively.My new post – and visualization – on how vaccines allowed us

Malgorzata (Gosia) Gasperowicz

GosiaGasperoPhD

YYC NE has an extremely high new case rate (100/100 K, growing exponentially). It has a super fast doubling time of new daily cases: 1.5 weeks (AB 2.5 weeks).Everywhere in

Fr Gary Waddington

GaryWaddington

Covid19, the Church and Lockdown THREADI am genuinely torn. Sacraments are not an 'optional extra' in the smorgasbord of worship. The Eucharist is the 'source and summit' of the life

Khrisha Shah 😊

KhrishaShah

Can the authorities and media start sharing daily death counts and infection counts and hospitalisation counts from every other disease and cause, both for this year and past years so

alex kershaw

kershaw_alex

Closing the gap. Amazing photograph taken today of Major Vivian Currie, with pistol on left, closing the Falaise Gap. The image is said to be the only one from WWII

Michael Rosen

MichaelRosenYes

Just in case there are people who want to make me into a lock down zealot, I'll just say that I don't know anymore than any other non-expert whether that's

John Burn-Murdoch

jburnmurdoch

Two great papers out today on how to improve compliance with restrictions and thus make real, lasting inroads against viral transmission, getting us out of the tunnel faster.Turns out the

Lyndon G

LyndonGeorge1

Thread: After reading this article I decided to visit the pharmacy and meet with the pharmacist. I wanted to know why he didn't speak with the reporter, give context and

Mark Harper

Mark_J_Harper

The start of the Oxford/AstraZeneca rollout is excellent news and will provide reassurance to so many. AZ’s chief executive has said they can produce up to 2 million doses a

Chris Hopson

ChrisCEOHopson

26/42 Are there any national datasets that accurately capture what is going on? The brilliant @jburnmurdoch has highlighted number of admissions into ICU. The message from his animated chart (click

Shane Crotty

profshanecrotty

1/ This is one of the most interesting pre-prints I have seen this past month. I consider this study in two parts.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.03.367391v1 2/ In the first part, Nussenzweig and colleagues

David French

DavidAFrench

In today's newsletter, I did a deep dive into the web of court cases that created the conditions for Breonna Taylor's death and make future deaths like hers inevitable. The

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