#Measures

Yesterday the @IrishTimes again published a #Covid19 piece that had not been fact checked. Piece by Martin Feely suggests the WHO had put forward a mortality of 0.1386%. This is
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1 Please read. Thank you.What are important & effective mitigating factors in COVID?1st, what is "a mitigating factor" in medicine?It's something that has the effect of making something bad less
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10/18/2020 NM COVID-19 Report In the early 1970s, Nixon reported the good news that the rate of increase of inflation had gone down, recorded by some as the first time
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Dr. Anders Tegnell @ Annual meeting KI&Mayo Thread with the most important findings.My own favourites: 3, 9, 11, 18 (schools) 19 and 20.1/x"Experience Sweden vs. USA""Perhaps Covid will be surprising
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101 BS THINGS TAUGHT TO STUDENTS, 1That correlation is a measure of relationship betw 2 variables. It is very rarely so.Few understand how correlation requires 1) no subsampling, 2) strict
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I'm going to say a bit more about this passage from @roddreher and how it illustrates that social conservatives are constantly *projecting* when they complain about the left "sexualizing children."
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Watching the Michigan Bureau of Elections Board meeting on CSPAN. They're about to vote on certification. https://www.c-span.org/video/?478327-1/michigan-bureau-elections-meets-certify-election-results&live God bless this one grey h
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Alexander Wendt is one of the founders of the Constructivist school of international relations (IR) theory (and a huge influence on my own work). His 1992 “Anarchy Is What States
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THREADON THE CRISIS OF HATE AND EXTREMISM IN OUR NATION.Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of scientists—in universities, pharmaceutical corporations, and research institutes alike—have dropped all of their
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ROUND TWO: RUSSIA AND RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE IN THE US (1987)--"The U.S.S.R. is very interested in influencing U.S. religious organizations and their leaders. This campaign represents Soviet awareness that such institutions
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1/30 In two forthcoming pieces, I examine #Japan's response to the #COVID19 #coronavirus #pandemic. I'll summarize the main non-theoretical points here (long thread alert!). 2/30 #Japan’s figures have always looked
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NEW: Despite a mountain of headline-worthy media departures, I believe our industry has failed to properly examine the ways reporters covering the pandemic are struggling—and what can be done about
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FG and FF parliamentary parties have been sent the framework document on govt formation, which outlines ten “missions” for the new govt: Mission 1 includes a commitment to introduce a
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COVID Update June 30: What does the Congress owe us?Time for them to support the American public through chaos. And the virus. 1/ The American public need these 4 things
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Time for patron input. Speakers will be given three minutes each, and it looks like there will be quite a few. Brent Smith, DHS student body president, calls for in-person
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When should #Schools #Reopen in the UK? This thread summarises the key points & evidence on the issue & finishes with some things the government must do before allowing schools
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