#PANDEMIC

Kate

Knhannah

Kia ora @TVNZ I have a little thread for you: our @PunahaMatatini research report which we released yesterday investigates the prevalence and nature of COVID-19 disinformation and conspiracy in Aotearoa.

Sangxa

sangxa

“Health minister Zweli Mkhize is said to have “lost his cool” with allegedly incompetent Eastern Cape health officials this week.” “He visited the Nelson Mandela Bay district on Wednesday. The

Tanya Selak

GongGasGirl

Hi @BillFawcett I can hear you in Wollongong for the @AAGBI webinar! Covid-19 dilemmas. 1000 signed up. @doctimcook Sarah Armstrong. @traumagasdoc Robert Wheeler. Robert Tobin. Supporting, informing and inspiring. Quite

Dave Wasserman

Redistrict

Without wading into the modeling wars - a debate I see as mostly fruitless - guess I'll try to summarize why I think the presidential race is more like "Lean

Matt Ridley

mattwridley

Thread on the origin on the virus.Many media outlets including the @thesundaytimes are speculating about whether the virus leaked from the Institute of Virology in Wuhan (WIV). Please note this

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 101This week, it felt like we entered a new phase of Covid. In March & April, we had panic, lockdowns, and surges… in certain places.

This is fascism and I reject it.🆘

benFranklin2018

Another horseman has arrived?https://twitter.com/suilee/status/1217729717874216961 It’s getting worse.https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1219343502582132736?s=20 https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1219343502582132736 If it’s airborne and human to human, and

Reuters Graphics

ReutersGraphics

1/13 The killing of George Floyd in May sparked worldwide mass protests against racial injustice and brought to the forefront the systemic racism that Black people face on a daily

Nitin Sethi

nit_set

#Thread. Hey friends. Have a short story to tell. About journalism. A dream. Some thoughts. And a plan. Will you please stay with me till the end?I urge you to.

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

Blair is urging world govts to massively increase testing both in scale & frequency everyone & often. This is preposterous. Those with a good knowledge of immunology know with a

Jen Heemstra

jenheemstra

Vaccines usually take over 10 years to develop, test, and mass produce. But, scientists predict we could have an effective vaccine for Covid-19 by early 2021. How is this possible?

Brendan Nyhan

BrendanNyhan

The Trump administration is about to learn that you can't BS your way past a disease. Viruses don't care that you are denying reality and falsify your claims when you

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

5/19By 1500 BC, the first Veda had been written. This was the first written record of a civilization's practices, both religious and otherwise. Here we find references to plenty of

Anna Moyer

annagmoyer

Thread: Books, articles, and podcasts that have helped me in my (ongoing) work to be antiracist. I'll start with the things I know before adding links to resources I haven't

Shayan Sardarizadeh

Shayan86

NEW: I've spent the last 3 months investigating the rise of QAnon in the UK and Save Our Children rallies up and down the country. I've spent hours in their

Dr Vyom Sharma

drvyom

1/ Victorian lockdowns continue largely because #covid19aus transmission persists in health/aged care.Excluding these, our 14 day avg daily cases = 2.9If only we knew these settings were drivers of transmission,