#Pandemic

1/ Public health advocates, we are no longer living under the Trump administration and we need to reset our imagination.To not do this is to let cognitive inertia allow us
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In his 3rd @mastersofscale #RapidResponse, restaurateur @dhmeyer takes us on a searingly personal journey, through the pain of renewed layoffs, the start-and-stop innovations in kitchens, the fragile hope that keeps
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'In Tempetes Microbiennes, Patrick Zylberman, a professor of History of Health in Paris, detailed the complex process through which health security, so far at the margins of political strategies, was sneaking
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To put it simply, today’s COVID-19 numbers are shocking. Not only is this the highest number of new cases reported since the onset of the pandemic, but the double-digit positivity
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The central idea behind this piece on why the US failed so badly to control the pandemic is that it fell under the combined weight of a multitude of weaknesses,
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Even before today I was thinking about how much the Trump era (unsurprisingly for the b-roll president) has been shaped by visuals of masses of people. It starts with (the
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Retail sales data for June, from the @ONS, a thread . (All the hard work of @StatsRhian and team.) Retail sales had a good June, growing around 14% compared to
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Joe Biden is opening up a Special Enrollment Period for the ACA marketplaces. Here's aon why this a BFD! 1/https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/01/28/fact-sheet-president-biden-to-sign-executive-orders-stren
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Exponential growth is difficult to understand. There are several strange features which don't 'feel right'. It can lead to misunderstanding, and as a pandemic follows exponential growth, it helps to
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CareTech, one of the biggest private providers of children's homes and foster care, has published its annual financial report today. Prepare to get very angry (thread, 1/). While the rest
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At the Atlantic, the peerless @sarahzhang has been leading our coverage of COVID-19 vaccines. Here's a thread of her amazing work. 1) A great big-picture look at the Moderna &
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"Never bet against human ingenuity"A thread From a conference call with Stephane Bancel, CEO of Moderna1. mRNA is a game-changing technology which will massively reduce drug development time (to
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Started as a reply but then got to good not to post:Do capitalism and racism work together to harm people? Racism and capitalism became entwined when Portuguese created race based
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This is story needs to be shared.As I've said countless times, Albertans elected a Premier who lacks basic empathy. And he associates with a crew of similar people. Alberta's moderates
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When we shifted into pandemic time, I began counting the days. I decided that day 250 would be the halfway point, despite (& because) I could not know that. Today
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1. Negative Media coverage of C19 has fuelled hysteria and misinformation. Help combat the negative news trend - share this positive information.Good News about Covid19 **The case fatality rate from
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