#Virus

Only 288 COVID-19 cases & no deaths. How has #Vietnam with over 97 million people, limited resources & 1,400 km land border share with China, done it? Using a war
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#COVID19 Uk/Sweden modeling comparisonSweden has chosen not to lockdown based on different assumptions on the number of cv patients who will end up in intensive carehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/03/coronavirus-swedish-experiment-could-prov
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KUWAIT and how it’s people are handling Corona virus breakout, THREAD: EVERYTHING in Kuwait is shut down, schools, uni, malls, barbershops, restaurants, shops, clinics, etc.. The whole country is on
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Our third free coronavirus webinar, “Coronavirus Conversations: Club Operations Part 2,” is about to begin. Follow this thread for updates. A recording of the webinar will be posted for those
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Sometimes this pandemic - and the way it's handled here - puts me deep in my thoughts about past crises I've witnessed and covered in Mexico. Not so much a
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A short thread on this new Working Paper "Counting the missteps of the U.S. Federal Government's handling of COVID-19" . This is me w Nancy Krieger @_christiantestaJarvis Chen, L Davis,
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Thread with links to papers on health problems from masks1. Headaches: subjects wearing surgical masks experienced an average 4.9 days of headaches in 77 days compared to 1.3 days for
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The textile industry in my belt ran an extremely devious scheme called "sumangali" where young girls would join as apprentices in mills/looms/garmenting units, stay in hostels & only paid a
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I started writing about Arkansas food in 2007. It has become a mission in my life, but it started out as an act of desperation. I honestly thought writing about
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Jikook as a h^^py virus — a cute thread having fun each other uwu the smiles this is the cutest photo they’re so cute
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THREAD: Read til the end.Let me be clear, I am not a Biden fan at all. He is corrupt, a liar, suffering from dementia and in my opinion a pedophile.
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Just for a moment, let's ignore the shenanigans which Trump's team has planned for the days after the election. Just for a moment, let's treat all things as essentially equal.This
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THREAD: #Azerbaijan is using public health emergency for political retaliation to punish legitimate speech. @hrw documented 7 recent arrests on opposition activists on spurious disobedience & breaking lockdown rules https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/
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Thread: Dalits in US tech companies say caste discrimination from upper castes at work is rampant. I explore the manifestation of India’s centuries-old caste system in US MNCs, in the
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The US president moving to ban the export of vital medical supplies in a global pandemic feels like a bit of moment in history...https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-03/trump-invokes-act-to-prevent-equipment-from-being-hoarded The take fro
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covid panics have become as regular & predictable as moon phases or cicadasas we're coming back into the "mistaking more testing for more cases" part of the cycle, let's see
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