#CORONAVIRUS

DHEC announced 1,002 new confirmed cases and 2 new probable cases of COVID-19, and 6 additional confirmed deaths.This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 25,666, probable cases to
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Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, is updating the nation on the government's efforts in tackling the virusFollow the latest updates:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/04/12/politics-latest-news-matt-hancock-gives-coronavirus-update-death
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Learn how to (not) flatten the curve from eminent Pakistani journalist Sabir Shakir.Per him 𝟱𝟬𝟬𝗸 patients tested coronavirus positive out of the total 𝟲𝟬𝗸 tests in Pakistan. Making it an
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My favourite coronavirus supply chain fact - there is a massive glut of potatoes because while the British love to eat them, they only do so in the form of
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i'm a cosigner on a loan for a relative who has lost income because of covid-19. I was DREADING calling sallie mae. but I just got a 3-month forbearance. didn't
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Thread on current #coronavirus data courtesy of @covidtracking to put things in perspective: The US is approaching 31 million tests. 8% have come back positive, and that includes states like
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1/? Being asked this question a fair bit... so... personally, I think the best way is to just try and do them - and look up the answers for the
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Three members of Congress are demanding answers from the White House about VP Pence's Chief of Staff, Marc Short, after @CREWcrew caught him participating in meetings with companies whose stocks
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#Coronavirus resources for #charities thread: The CTG website now has a range of resources available for charities that have been viewed thousands of times. Links are collated in a central
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@councilofdc is doing everything right. Meeting remotely for the first time in its 45-year history, the D.C. Council on Tuesday unanimously passed its second emergency COVID-19 relief bill, a measure
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1/5 Smoking Bat points to WIV again!Thanks @CarltheChippy update from Bill Gallagher claims to have identified source of spike protein in SARS-COV-2 as Bat Coronavirus HKU9 isolated from a Rousettus
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We've recently seen journalists and experts make recommendations based on the weird “no evidence” construction, only to later find out they were wrong.It feels like the same type of reasoning
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1) A review of the White House response to the Coronavirus outbreak.... IN JANUARY, before most were paying attention. 2) In **2018** President Trump established a National Biodefense Strategy specifically
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How can we help them? How can we help people in prison this is beyond fucked up.https://twitter.com/forevaakhaee/status/1247463183541047297 This article has lists of things to do to support incarcerated people. https://www.papermag.com/help-incarcera
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1. A few tentative thoughts about supply chain risk and the lessons from coronavirus so far. 2. One popular takeaway I've seen has been that global supply chains are bad,
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It seems like in wealthy Western countries with bad outbreaks of COVID-19, total excess mortality is about 1.5x higher than confirmed COVID-19 deaths. Quick thread on how I think about
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