#Virus

Edward Russell

e_russell

For those seemingly surprised about the tanking U.S. air travel recovery, let’s review the situation (thread).From the outset, @IATA director general Alexandre de Juniac was calling it the “biggest crisis

Megan

WeRWorld

When I signed up for this account, I wasn’t sure if I was going to talk about covid-19. But the events of today kind of mean that I have to.If

Jack Pilgrim

jpilgrim91

New preprint with @TheLadybirdman @Baylism and @sio_stef describing which tissues a Rickettsia bacterium is present in within the pesky Scottish Highland midge! https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.06.23.166496v1 (1/7) Rickettsia are

Torsten Bell

TorstenBell

Lots of pub based excitement today. Evidently what's been announced will make a big difference to immediate economic output. But we need to be really careful about how we think

Laura Phillips 💙

LauraPh222

BBC's global reach increased by 11% yr on yr in 2020 to 468.2m people a week:the highest number ever. BBC News accounts for 438.4m of the total with an annual increase of

John Harwood

JohnJHarwood

“I don’t think Obama’s smart,” Trump told Woodward. “I think he’s highly overrated. And I don’t think he’s a great speaker.” Trump added that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un

Thinker

Thinker24631623

@C_Somos Uses a misleading spin of a title in this article. Says 7 out of 10 support this when in the article it’s clear only 45% support it and 55%

Daniel Firger

dfirgs

Thread on new @CFTC #climaterisk report. Here are the highlights: First & perhaps most importantly, this report was a) commissioned by a majority-Republican federal regulatory agency and b) represents the

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

The response to the 1918 pandemic had some remarkably familiar features, as described in this 2010 article (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862334/#__ffn_sectitle). For example, there was debate about the effectiveness of mask

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

There is media bias around discussing an elimination strategy- which is considered 'unrealistic' or not possible in the UK- where the rhetoric from govt & its advisors has been 'acceptable

Amir Attaran

profamirattaran

I'm writing a tweet thread on what I think COVID in Canada in 2021 will look like. Short version: the next months will be much worse than anything yet--we are

Trinh

Trinhnomics

Hello. Today is 30 December 2020 & let's look at the year in review of asset performance. Here is a chart of key equity indices in 2020 in USD. Looking

Michael Thomas Cucek

MichaelTCucek

#Japan - #Covid_19 OK, folks, calm down (apologies here to Herr Maslow).First, there is at least a five day lag time so whatever the number is today, it is the

Peter Foster

pmdfoster

Remember the government wanting to "follow the science"? It is remarkable how far it is ignoring scientific advice on this new ultra-infectious variant of #Covid-19 by keeping schools open... both

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/5In Spain, as in much of the rest of the world, the dis-saving of those left unemployed by Covid-19 was more than matched by increased savings among those who continued

Alan Baxter

AlanBixter

COVID-19: Where are we now #51.Victoria has had an outbreak of COVID-19, going from no new cases on the 9th of June to 108 yesterday (5th July), and an increase

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