#Outbreak

My “businesses I’m boycotting list” is getting longer every day. If you’re interested I’ll add businesses to this thread. This coronavirus crisis is shedding the light on bad companies. @ASOS
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[THREAD - Taiwan geopolitics and WHO]A lot of people on my feed have been sharing about Taiwan vs the WHO. Let me offer my two cents on the situation, as
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Well done to @GeorgeLeeRTE for doing a detailed piece comparing Ireland and Sweden .Important that we have this debate.A few comments on the piece and my own views on
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1/7 The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is changing life for all of us. You may feel anxious, stressed, worried, sad, bored, depressed, lonely or frustrated in these circumstances.You’re not alone. Here
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Here's a thread with a selection of great journalism on #COVIDăƒŒ19 from around the world. Please share and feel free to add suggestions at the end #Covid_19 1. @nytimes has
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Hungary acted early, imposed a strict lockdown and was declared a great success. I can’t resist quoting again Pyotr Chumakov:“Right now the dynamics of the epidemic is different in different
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1/ It's very important that LMIC governments and country experts start modelling the potential impact of COVID-related decreases in health service use on indirect deaths *now*.https://twitter.com/GdnDevelopment/status/1245943874960240641 2/ Lack
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THREAD: Inter-agency task force holds media briefing on the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic Facebook https://bit.ly/3dSEAA3  Live stream http://cnn.ph/1LXc9jG  Free TV ch. 9, Cignal ch. 10, Sky Cable
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Wow. Trump appointees in HHS privately touted their efforts last year to block or alter scientists’ reports on COVID-19 to more closely align with Trump’s "more optimistic messages about the
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A few days ago, I pointed out that while testing dynamics are totally different in the 2nd wave vs the first wave in Europe (meaning that we cannot compare absolute
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My family is suspected to have corona infection so they are kept in quarantine at a ashray gray in Khurja, Uttar Pradesh near Ambedkar Park Madar Darwaja.The condition of this
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Spent some time this week surveying Connecticut's current COVID testing system.It's made it clear to me how disastrous Trump's refusal to build a national testing plan has been - even
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April 24, 1861. San Francisco, California. Brigadier General Edwin V. Sumner relieves Brevet Brigadier General Albert S. Johnston and assumes command of the Department of the Pacific. Johnston had already
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The health min has been sidelined, with Modi, in his characteristic way by centralising the response.The govt is hiding a pandemic in plain sight, & has painted a target on
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To fight the coronavirus China is undertaking its biggest experiment yet in rule by data: an app that automates quarantines. Alibaba software, using unexplained data, now decides whether millions can
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(1/12) Big thread with 16 diagrams to investigate the “dry tinder” hypothesis (mild preceding seasons affecting future mortality). We begin with a deep dive into the Nordics – in short:
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