#Measures

Kristian G. Andersen

K_G_Andersen

Absolute knock-out paper by @SunKaiyuan and colleagues on SARS-CoV-2 transmission. A few highlights: 1. Kids less susceptible than adults, but just as infectious2. Presymptomatic spread ~50%3. Quarantine/isolation not enough in

Joseph Kabuleta

JKabuleta

SILENCE OF THE LAMBSJoseph Kabuleta’s Lockdown DiarySometime in the early 2000s, on one of my journalist travels, we were seated around the dinner table at a hotel in Dakar, Senegal,

LA Pays Attention

LAPaysAttention

Ballots are mailing out October 5th for all LA County voters! And we have just a couple weeks left to get everyone plugged into important local races. One of our

Thomas Dvorak

thomdvorak

Why lifting lockdown quickly is an absolutely moronic and counterproductive policy. (THREAD)I'm not the first to post this but given the amount of senseless & foolish columns in The Telegraph,

W.F. Thomas

W_F_Thomas

If anybody at GT (staff, faculty, or student) wants to anonymously leak anything going on, my DMs are open. Threading in info I recievedhttps://twitter.com/W_F_Thomas/status/1292667512845369345?s=19 Here's what some of the extra

Dr David Nabarro

davidnabarro

With four more narratives released in the past week (https://www.4sd.info/covid-19-narratives/) including a call for a Pandemic Emergency Coordination Council now, here are my top 6 on #COVID19 We must all

Daniel Ershov

ershov_daniel

New working paper just came out through @CESifo (joint w Steph Assad, Rob Clark and Lei Xu). We look at the effects of mass adoption of algorithmic pricing software on

Danny Boy

Care2much18

The last 5 days has seen an average of 44 cases per day in Ireland. I'll lay out how that compares to the rest of Europe - in real terms

Dr. Trevon D Logan

TrevonDLogan

Still overjoyed from receiving the @socscihist Founders Prize, I’d like to share more about why this prize proves that we desperately need diverse voices in the economics profession. To be

Wanjikũ Revolution™

WanjikuRevolt

Thread... Musing on #Covid19I wonder about the growing numbers and worry at the excitement of GOK in announcing the new number of positive #coronavirusInkenya cases. They announce it as though

AJ Kay

AJKayWriter

“Bracing for grim” is all many people have been able to do for 6 months (& counting) as they live the devastation of these mitigation measures, including:* hunger* non-Covid disease

char

BABPLEH

LMFAO rapists really out here victimizing themselves and thinking jail means reparations have been made. How tone-deaf do you have to be to say that a lawyer's letter isn't an

Farmer Thor the Scientist ™️🇺🇸🚜

JortsAndCrocs

1/8The internet is abuzz regarding the updated #COVID19 death stats, thinking that it's only 6% of deaths being Covid. Yes and no, let me break it down below. Firstly, there

Chase Woodruff

dcwoodruff

We obviously shouldn’t minimize the focus on police violence against Black Americans, which is the precipitating incident here. But it seems clear that these protests are tapping into a powerful

Elijah Sims

ElijahSims90

Day 4 of #60DayChallengeWhat is an "intellectual?" In his book, "Intellectuals," Paul Johnson gives a concise definition: "Men [who] arose to assert that they could diagnose the ills of society

Pearce Korb MD, MHPE, FAAN

drpearcekorb

The Science of Reopening with #COVID is important to me because a) I'm a scientist b) I'm a working doctor & c) I don't want people to get sick or