#CORONAVIRUS

Julia Marcus, PhD, MPH

JuliaLMarcus

I've been thinking about the widespread concern that masks will promote a "false sense of security." We've learned a few things from #HIV prevention and #harmreduction that I think should

Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

xandvt

Footage of the brutality & protests in the US is horrific: more examples of the terrible injustices that led there. But the really appalling vision of America right now is

Keri Blakinger

keribla

#BREAKING Today, a group of physicians & med experts wrote an open letter to death penalty states asking them to give up their execution drugs: Doctors need them to treat

Max Roser

MaxCRoser

The situation in the Czech Republic is now looking extraordinarily bad.Left: There are now 856 confirmed cases per million per day. A rate higher than what we've seen almost anywhere

Alec MacGillis

AlecMacGillis

This is a really good and important @dwallacewells piece on the deeply counterproductive lack of nuance and candor in a lot of the public-health messaging on coronavirus:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/american-public-health-experts

Barbara Malmet

B52Malmet

Good luck getting re-electing on the bodies of dead Americans. Good luck getting re-elected with staggering numbers of unemployed Americans. Good luck with your image #DonaldDeath. Mark Meadows + former

🎻🖊️DeMisty D. Bellinger

DeMistyB

1. Have serious/not smart person questions: If we have recommendations for institutions to open up and social distance, how do we get to the space of distancing? How do we

Shells Advertising

ShellsAdInc

The British coffee & sandwich chain .@Pret is offering all .@NHSuk staff free hot drinks & a 50% discount of all food.Take a bow.This thread will explore the good the

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

ThreadOn this Memorial Day, let me talk about what I think is going to happen.@realDonaldTrump declared a state of national emergency, remember?How will Trump deal with THIS?https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-coronavirus-chicago-

Ian Millhiser

imillhiser

1) I'm seeing a handful of left-leaning lawyers argue SCOTUS' decision in RNC v. DNC, the Wisconsin election case, was defensible & maybe wasn't that bad. So I want to

PSN London

psn_ldn

This morning, the government announced plans to release people on temporary licence (ROTL), supposedly as a reaction to the pandemic. Whilst this may seem like a step in the right

Jaemark Tordecilla

FireQuinito

In his speech tonight, President Duterte claimed that he gave a solemn speech at the beginning warning Filipinos against the novel coronavirus. But in February 2020, after the first case

Broadway Cares

BCEFA

The free stream of Celebrating 25 Magical Years of @disneybroadway to raise money for @BCEFA's COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund has been canceled. Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/theater/broadway-cares-disney-fund-raiser-blocked-c

Kiera Feldman 😷

kierafeldman

Happy weekend. Plz remember that social distancing does not mean hanging out w/a friend 6ft away. Covid is likely transmitted by breathing/talking alone https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/02/health/aerosol-coronavirus-spread-white-house-letter/index.html6ft

Tee-Nee

TiniBlues

'I won't go back to work until it's safe for me and residents' - The desperate story of a care home workerhttps://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-were-wearing-bin-bags-to-protect-ourselves-the-desperate-story-of-a-care-home-worker-1197

Eric Lipton

EricLiptonNYT

Trump, after wrapping up another weekend at his Virginia golf club, apparently preparing to highlight an unproven coronavirus treatment in a reality-show styled kickoff of his RNC convention week.https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1