#Endemic

Dear Boris, A few questions if I may:1. Where is the evidence that Lockdowns work? We already know that infections were falling when we first locked down in March.2. Where
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Morning! Welcome to @pjmendez_’s Twitter takeover. First of all, I want to talk about how #RainbowMilk came to be a novel. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin #RainbowMilk was
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A thread on our new paper in which we argue..."The misuse of scenarios in climate research means that much of what we think we know about our collective climate future
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a cool idea for what the wnba could do to express solidarity instead of selling a $40 t-shirt (with none of the proceeds going to charity) with a meaningless slogan:
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Grindr: the same guys staring at each other day after day, hoping that today will be different - yet ignoring each other because not all boxes are checked, and it’s
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The two are not mutually exclusive. The big question in the issue of the proximal origin of the #coronavirus is its adaptation to the human ACE2 receptor. This means it
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I got my start in #botany and owe my #BlackBotanicalLegacy to my great-grandmother, Grace Alice (who learned her love from her grandmother). For all who know me, know she was
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There’s so much that could be said about results day. And this is one like no other. Many have said much, and said it far better. The uncertainty endemic in
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Here's a prime example of misinformation & omission of context in COVID media coverage:Today, @12News in AZ pushes a story that "These 4 graphs show Arizona is losing the fight
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How will we know when the Covid-19 pandemic is over in Canada? Has it (the pandemic, not the virus itself) been over for months now? Is what we are seeing
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Ok, took me a few days to properly process the stunning results of the Delhi serosurvey. Unfortunately we only have a press conference with a few slides telling us that
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Good point brought up by Kelly Brown on the vague messaging from @BogochIsaac, @pattyhajdu and @JustinTrudeau. Lets dig into the details of vaccine passports. 1/https://twitter.com/rubiconcapital_/status/1388649476206866433 Lets start with
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It is extraordinary that #Covid19 has turned @BorisJohnson into more Castro than Castro. By the time the remade Job Support Scheme, the Self-employed grant and the business grants terminate at
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It took seven years, yes 7, for this manuscript to finally see the light of day. Stoked to see my undergraduate thesis in print! So what did we do? 1/nhttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0237431
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Sometimes it’s useful to revisit basic concepts. We appear to have forgotten that immunity after viral infection is the rule, not the exception. “In this chapter, we highlight the principal
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Not to be a killjoy, but to be a killjoy:There's been good HIV meds for 25 yrs. Yet, the better part of a million (mostly nonwhite) ppl still die of
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