#CoronaVirus

Sara Danner Dukic

saradannerdukic

It’s difficult to get our minds around exponential growth because it’s largely invisible to us, even though we’re surrounded by it in our daily lives. (Mold grows exponentially. And yeast.

#TechStoa

techstoa

Seen distributed on Facebook and Reddit at a minimum. A thread:January 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just

Gabriel Pogrund

Gabriel_Pogrund

EXC A whistleblower at the National Shielding Helpline tells how call centre staff mock the disabled - and have so little training that vulnerable people are hung up upon

Daniel Levitt

daniellevitt22

Prof. Michael Levitt @MLevitt_NP2013, #Nobel laureate from Stanford:"I think lockdown is a very crude, medieval-sounding phrase. I think closing schools, closing business and places of work is not such a

Governor Mike DeWine

GovMikeDeWine

I want to talk about a change in @CDCgov guidance on how we report #Ohio statistics. While we will follow the guidance, we want to make sure we show data

Eric Garland

ericgarland

Beijing pushes very close to acts of war by cyberattacks on America's ability to protect its people from COVID-19. Partnering with Iran makes it look even worse.https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-iranian-hacking-may-be-hampering-search-for-coro

Ken Opalo

kopalo

Gates Foundation to focus entirely on coronavirus via @FT https://on.ft.com/3eRToiT While this is great in some respects, it’s a reminder of the perils of aid-dependence. You lose agenda control. And

The Marshall Project

MarshallProj

On March 19, Aubrey Melder, a Senior Officer at the federal prison in Oakdale, Louisiana, transported a sick prisoner to the local community hospital for tests. He spent six hours

Petitions Committee

HoCpetitions

"Walking fast along the street is just as good as bicycling in the park". @DHSCgovuk Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Jenny Harries told us that people shouldn't, and don't need

Peter W. Singer

peterwsinger

Thoughtful Response by @intelwire to our essay on the positive side of dystopian fictionhttps://slate.com/technology/2020/07/dystopian-fiction-coronavirus-pandemic.htmlThink our primary divergence would be 1) categorization (what is in it o

Yascha Mounk

Yascha_Mounk

A big unanswered questions about COVID-19 is the true infection rate. How many people have already had it?As testing ramps up, there are reports of random samples and/or antibody tests

azcentral

azcentral

#BREAKING: Arizona Gov. Ducey orders bars, gyms and theaters to close at 8 p.m. tonight; large gatherings restricted, school start delayedhttps://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-health/2020/06/29/arizona-coronavirus-update-from-g

Dr. Leta Hong Fincher 洪理达

LetaHong

Angela Merkel “has done what Mr. Trump has not. She has been clear and honest about the risks with voters and swift in her response...A trained physicist, she has followed

Christine Elliott

celliottability

For each of the past two days, Ontario’s public health units are reporting fewer than 100 cases of #COVID19, with 88 cases on Monday and 91 today. Combined over the

Ian Miles Cheong

stillgray

Is Frum wrong?https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1247710789181595648 The litmus test is pretty simple. If the deceased would've lived if they didn't get the coronavirus then they should be counted as a coronavirus death. The

Larry Sanger

lsanger

SOME NEWS OF THE DAYA few of my picks...my annotations are at the bottom of the thread.1/ Trump tweets that he ordered Navy to destroy Iranian gunboatshttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-tweets-that-he-ordered-navy-to-destroy-iranian-gunboats/