#CoronaVirus

Buffy Wicks

BuffyWicks

President @BarackObama shared these words of wisdom with mayors today“Speak the truth. Speak it clearly. Speak it w/compassion. Speak it w/empathy for what folks are going through. The biggest mistake

Los Angeles Times

latimes

Here’s why a COVID-19 vaccine could end up costing you a small fortune.From @Davidlaz:https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-04-21/column-coronavirus-drug-pricing When you’re pricing a drug relative to its “benefits,” rather than its actual prod

Dan Lamothe

DanLamothe

The Pentagon plans to dispatch the Navy's Blue Angels and the Air Force's Thunderbirds in a multi-city effort to "champion national unity" amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to defense officials

Alexandre Afonso

alexandreafonso

Applying for unemployment assistance amidst the pandemic:Germany: apply online, money on bank account within 6 days.US: 4 days to reach someone to explain what the procedure is, application has to

Sebastian Huluban

HulubanS

Great, but it was Joseph II that transformed ‘militar grenze’ into a sophisticated intelligence rampart : “The sanitary cordon that Emperor Joseph I built along the Habsburg-Ottoman frontier was one

Sierra Club

SierraClub

THREAD: Are you (or someone you know) in danger of having your utilities cut off during the #COVID19 pandemic? Tag @sierraclub to share your story (or DM us!) and we

Mike Crawley

CBCQueensPark

BREAKING: The number of #COVID19 tests Ontario completes daily is actually *dropping* steadily over the past week. The targets were 5,000/day by late March and 19,000/day by 3rd week of

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

Some things worth noting about this. 1) it really does look like a reinfection if the sequence is that different and typical of what is circulating in Spain 1/nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/health/coronavirus-reinfection.html 2)

CTG

realsnacktime

I have a media pet peeve as an experienced cross examiner. Media invariably asks people, “what do you think of person A saying X?” Recent example asking gop what they

Amee Vanderpool

girlsreallyrule

Trump announces “hold” on money going to "China centric" WHO: “They missed the call. They could have called it months earlier...they should have known. And they probably did know.” This

Megan McArdle

asymmetricinfo

Yeah, I've seen several people confidently stating "Humans have never successfully made a coronavirus vaccine", which just isn't true; we have them for animal diseases. And we've never had such

Adam Crafton

AdamCrafton_

PL taking calculated risk on participants lives. We know this as PL medics outlined 100 concerns & a CEO says training protocols based on “supposition” rather than “scientific facts”So what

Calvin Starnes

CalvinStarnesOG

So, I'm sure at some point you've heard some version of "the yearly flu is more deadly that the coronavirus."I knew this couldn't be right since a lot of those

Caitlin Rivers, PhD

cmyeaton

All proposed plans for reopening, incl ours, rely on testing + contact tracing. The US is at ~ 1M tests/wk. @ashishkjha thinks we need 3.5M/wk minimum. Others wants several times

balajis.com

balajis

The New Zealand strategy is a strict lockdown till no new cases, then test and trace until vaccine or treatment.The let-it-rip strategy means letting people get a novel virus with

The Telegraph

Telegraph

How coronavirus is worsening Britain’s racial wealth gap*a thread*Since coronavirus hit Britain, BAME people have been more likely than most to lose their income, fall behind on bills or have