#EPIDEMIC

I am pretty sure that the standard operating procedure on planet earth is to use people's hopes to control them by denying those hopes and then attaching conditions to achieve
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OK! I keep getting an ask from folks who are reading through the lockdown: Which book of yours should I read first? My answer has generally been, "IDK, what kinda
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I've had it with Republicans and their "pro-life" hypocrisy.They're "pro-life" until children are born & need things to live.They're "pro-life" until needed to wear masks in a pandemic. They'
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On the @SWAtlasHoover front, there’s a fascinating story to be told that @Stanford and particularly the @HooverInst has been a hot spot of covid misinformation from basically the beginning of
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The moving goal posts and lies of #COVID19 deniers:- It's just NY problem, the rest of us have nothing to worry about.- New cases are low around the country anyway.-
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I want to get a bit serious about the @WHO's dismissal of lab escape as a potential origins of the covid virus.I'm keen to see their full report. However, the
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1/ TL:DR - @who published a massive review/meta-analysis of interventions for flu epidemics in 2019, found "moderate" evidence AGAINST using masks. (They actually missed the 2015 Vietnam study, yet another
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1/n A tweetstorm about a little-discussed factor that’s destroying American health: vegetable oils. 2/ Something bad is happening in American health, and I don’t mean just COVID.https://twitter.com/jwmares/status/1224821330933096454?lan
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Proposal: Let’s end the segregation of accidemic disciplines (a thread). A lot of teachers are enamored w/ their subject areas, but what if we stop separating classes based on academic
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100 days of lockdown have completely changed how we live and interact. We’ve all had to adapt how we learn, work, shop, keep fit – and how we connect with
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Latest modelling re: #COVID19 in #BC shows epidemic curve as of February still not flat enough to warrant easing current public safety restrictions. More details coming this hour from Provincial
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A quick thread for peeps who'd like tore-imagine the great spectre of 'Depression'.Guys, this won't be a thread for the overly-sensitiveor easily-offended.cont. We've repeatedly seen @POTUS make lemonadeand cocktails out
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My tour of presidential biographies has reached Ronald Reagan, #40 (I am stopping at Bush 41 at the entirely arbitrary boundary of "latest dead president"). Reagan was a sincere, charismatic
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1/9 Weekly epi roundup: US lagging in control, surging in cases. Only the Northeast is at all reassuring, and those gains are at risk. Reopening schools is getting much harder.
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An explainer thread (often I feel I am pitching these to journalists as much as anyone else) on COVID this month. Context: I am an expert in one area (human
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1/ In this thread i will explain why nearly the entire medical & scientific world has everything backwards regarding SARS-CoV-2 & why over focusing solely on virus itself & what
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