#CoronaVirus

This story abt how the #ICAFarmville covid outbreak is bc DHS wanted to police #BlackLivesMatter demonstrations in DC is really wild and upsetting. Thread 1) On Jun 1, DHS
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New Orleans city officials will be holding a press conference to discuss a "public safety plan" ahead of Sunday's Saints game in the next few minutes. I'll be live-tweeting in
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Follow along with @equitablegrowth as we tweet key highlights from @HBoushey's testimony. Tune in at 3 pm ET!https://twitter.com/JECDems/status/1288883073128566789 The most important economic uncertainty facing your constituents and our
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Dem leaders like Pelosi dragged their feet on immediate, real substantive aid while the economy was in free fall, routinely centered “small businesses ”, leaned on confusing UI (and barely
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In what seems to me a stunning & revelatory coincidence, the same photo-licensing agency responsible for the first images of JonBénet Ramsey is also responsible for the first images of
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(1) The @nytimes updates its United States Excess Deaths analysis based on August 22nd CDC Dataset updates.CDC Reported Deaths: 176,188CDC Excess Deaths: 246,588CDC Undercount: 70,400 (+40.0%)NYT 9/10 Reported Deaths: 190,714NYT
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One thing I don't think is fully appreciated is the fact that Republicans in general, and Trump a fortiori, have no idea what causes recessions. If they've even heard of
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We're not doing any of this because a lot of people were going to catch a cold. We're not destroying our economies and societies because a tiny number of people
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What sends Ross off the deep end is that racial equity is being raised in the vaccine allocation discussions. Once we talk race, then it's politics for Ross, and he
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Tips for communicating when wearing a face covering. Pay attention, give time and you'll do just fine.Here are some things I've learnt from others. 1.Face a person when you talk
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When I was in Australia in mid-2020, a number of people asked me if the Chinese were concealing a coronavirus outbreak. While I think the numbers around the initial outbreak
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When it came down to vaccines, majority of the world found out that Pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, (US) and Astrazeneca (UK) are local companies first before they
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EXCLU: The mayor, police have repeatedly blamed a court shutdown for the explosion of gun violence rocking the city — but firearms cases are making their way through the criminal
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A long thread about test positivity: Tracking positivity is important. Unlike number of tests, positivity is linked to the number of infections out there. It can help give us a
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The $2,000 direct payment thread of key events:March 17th: Bernie Sanders proposes "monthly direct payments of $2,000 for every person in the country" until the pandemic ends. 1/9https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/18/bernie
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Our paper demonstrating far-field aerosol transmission on the Diamond Princess cruise ship is fully peer-reviewed and published. 1/nhttps://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1357075767016910848 The NYT covered our work in July when the preprint
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