#Testing

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

COVID Update September 19: SCOTUS edition.A massive impact on our ability to fight the pandemic and on those effected by it depends on the Court. 1/ COVID-19 is a brutal

Ari Paul ⛓️

AriDavidPaul

I’ve posted about covid19 a lot over the last few months, but never commented on if we should shut down the country or when we should re-open, because I didn’t

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

A big fall in the number of new cases and deaths per day with accompanying announcement of a vaccine will likely be the #OctoberSurprise. #COVID19 1/ The likely fall in

Peter Todd

peterktodd

Thread on shocking exponential growth, yet still fails to understand exponential growth.If your small interventions fail to stop growth, ~everyone is infected anyway. Then your small intervention has a small

Davy Carter

DavyCarter

I’m going to say something in this thread probably to my own detriment that I know won’t be well received by many. Nevertheless I am going to do it because

Kaushik Basu

kaushikcbasu

The virus will be around for some time. Social distancing/lockdowns are a must but we also have to slowly allow trade, exchange & markets to function. Otherwise there can be

Eric Kennedy

ericbkennedy

This is a really problematic headline that misunderstands & misleads about what's going on.A short thread about why counting is surprisingly hard (both in COVID and elections!) and why this

Secret Headteacher

secretHT1

My @educationgovuk Manifesto for Change:1) Stop treating us like idiots. We are professionals and deserve the respect as such. 2) Don’t take us for granted. We’ll make it work, because

Cynthia Mulligan

CityCynthia

NEW: Ontario has 411 new #covid19 cases, a 6.6% increase (yesterday it was 8.3%)Hospitalizations: 691 - up 18 from yesterdayPatients in ICU - 257 - down 3 from yesterday Patients

Joris Meys

JorisMeys

Interesting preprint of a Yale study comparing saliva swabs with the golden standard. Looks promising to speed up sampling and make it less intrusive. (Via @awyllie13 )https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20067835v1#disqus_thread Key fi

KariMe ~LadyToma~ COMM OPEN

KariMeMeli

Lately I'm feeling like I'm going nowhere with my life, I can't draw at all and I feel always sadI had to skip uni for this year and when I

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sobearanogil

Liza Soberano using her platform to speak up on societal and political issues.A thread Liza on the ABS-CBN shutdown and after the house hearing on the network's franchise renewal. Original

Farzad Mostashari

Farzad_MD

1/ We have heard about a number of potential breakthroughs for COVID response- large scale/cheap testing, immune therapy, vaccine progress. But when it comes to "getting eyes on the outbreak"

Mike Guss

GussRuralWA

Today in the pages of @TheNVIndy @orrinjohnson declared the coronavirus epidemic to be over, and said it was time to get back to normal while praising @ChuckMuth & his Weekend

wolfgang merkel

merkel_wolfgang

Corona 3: competition of regimes?1/4 Different pol.regimes,states, countries are acting differently in the Covid-crisis with diff. results.Does the pol. Regime matter?Autocracy vs democracy? Confucian societies vs lib. societies.Autocratic China prev

Chao Pup - watch the Sonic film - #SavedTheExpanse

chaoaretasty

Ok so there's a lot of talk on this and rather than copy pasting I want to get a single short thread I can point people to.To get the obvious