#Measures

With the US election ramping up, the question we often hear ramps up with it: 'why write about the US vote? Why would Canadians care?' Well with a neighbour that
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Donna Farber is an immunologist who studies the immune response to respiratory viruses, lung immunity, and human immunology. The COVID-19 and Immunology webinar starts now! Follow along #FarberCOVID19 COVID-19 symptom
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Simple classy ways to style white shirt and blue jeans combinations for ladiesA thread https://www.ipecblog.com.ng/2021/05/white-shirt-and-blue-jeans-combinations-for-ladies/ White shirt and blue jeans combinations for ladiesWhite button s
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Another American journalist writing on Sweden, proving he doesn't have a clue what he is writing about. An article full of prejudices, false comparisons and twisted facts. @nytimes @petersgoodman.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/busin
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Whenever we're told about the policy of nationalization we're mostly told of its failures particularly in former socialist states.However many proponents against nationalization will almost never tell you about how
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Iceland is planning to reopen its borders June 15. It will require all visitors to take a covid-19 test, agree to a two-week quarantine or present official documentation of a
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I want to step back and give some thoughts about the Coronavirus developments this week and some sense of the 3 months ahead from my perspective. Context: I am an
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About two months ago I raised 5 questions I thought were important in determining how debt relief initiatives (esp. DSSI) will work for resource-rich countries. Here is an update on
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I've spent the last couple of days learning about what other densely populated South Asian communities are dealing with when it comes to COVID-19 and I'm finding a lot of
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If you feel like you saw a version of this movie in 2017, you're not imagining things. Trump/McConnell have installed lots of right-wing judicial loyalists who may be eager to
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Epidemiologists claim that B.1.1.7 is far more transmissible than the historical lineage. In this post, I look at what happened in France and argue that, while B.1.1.7 initially had a
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Russians are masters of disinformation. Don’t fall for their lies on social mediahttps://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article246096855.html “The goal is to manipulate and divide humans because it sells. “We just provide a space f
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So, some of those following me may wonder why I’m so concerned about British politics and in particular the way the UK govt is handling #COVID19 I’ve been a frequent
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Seems important for econs (& everyone, in fact) to follow historians of medicine/epidemiology, if only to learn lessons from history of econ & epi side by side. So here's a
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This is a thread on India's responses to the #Covid_19 pandemic. Ranging from relief and stimulus packages in response to specific challenges that India faces, plus confirmed health/epidemiological information from
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A [THREAD] on Morocco sending medical aid to fellow African countries Flashback: In April 2020, HM King Mohammed VI had two telephone conversations with Presidents HE Alassane Ouattara, of Côte d'Ivoire,
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