#CORONAVIRUS

Billy

BillyArmagh

My friend told me that friends of theirs invited them over for a dinner party last week. My friend was like, nooo, that’s a bad idea, coronavirus is spreading fast

Rappler

rapplerdotcom

Ken Abante, a former chief of staff for the strategy, economics, and results group at the Department of Finance, asks the government to #SpendFasterToStopHunger. WATCH #RapplerTalk:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL2Q17FxXCg&feature=youtu.be Ken

Steven Sinofsky

stevesi

More deaths, no benefit from malaria drug in VA virus study https://apnews.com/a5077c7227b8eb8b0dc23423c0bbe2b2 #science The thing about this is if it happened to be a "cure" it was totally for random

Mike

FactsDoMatter4

Don buys Trump’s BS about “nobody knew”.From Feb.26th:On Tuesday, a top official from the CDC said the agency expects the virus will begin spreading at a community level in the

COVID-19 watcher

2019nCoVwatcher

NEW: Turkey has confiscated at least 150 ventilators that were on their way to Spain from China. The ventilators were ordered by the Spanish regions Navarra and Castilla- La Mancha.Turkey

Atila Iamarino

oatila

Saiu o primeiro estudo que vi projetando como/quando podemos sair do problema da COVID-19. Lerei com mais calma e comentarei, mas as conclusões já são tensas (segue fio): projetam distanciamento

Will Fithian

wfithian

The authors said they used “ci means” in Stata on the 0/1 variables (test - / test +) for the 3330 participants, and they don’t know how the weights were

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

So it took a few days, but the media seem to be realizing that the anti-quarantine protests aren't a real grassroots uprising; they're Potemkin populism staged by right-wing billionaires 1/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-co

Medact

Medact

BREAKING: New research reveals the true impact of the #HostileEnvironment on childrenIf children were being deterred from seeking care before the coronavirus crisis we have no reason to think this

Crankster McGee

EvOutWest

Small Thread, history repeating: I read this over at NPR about Ammon Bundy/Idaho and opposition to state efforts to curtail the spread of COVID-19. The piece mentioned hard right GOP

Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon

RepMGS

A powerful op-ed from @kadidakenner. She is right. “The elderly, the poor, those with pre-existing conditions, and especially communities of color who are disproportionately affected have felt the weight of

Lisa en direct 🌏🌍🌎

ActusPays

Bon sens et religion...Un thread sur le sujet.https://twitter.com/Sciences_Avenir/status/1229362202920017920?s=20 Dans les campagnes du Bangladesh, les villageois ostracisent les femmes dont le mari a péri tué par un tigre du Bengale.https://twitter.

Ketan Joshi

KetanJ0

What we're seeing play out with the repeated, completely unstoppable 'discussion' of BLM protests and COVID19 is extremely reminiscent of the 2010s-2015s era where media outlets helped politicise climate change

Michael M. Parker

Mr_MikeParker

I ate my @EconWheaties and I don’t think we can even begin to understand the transformational effect of the current economic and public health crisis and the future of our

Aaron Rupar

atrupar

Rudy Giuliani is on Fox News preaching nihilism about medical science "He's not asking people to take risks that he doesn't take," Rudy Giuliani claims of a president who has

CitizensAdvice

CitizensAdvice

Nearly 1.4 million people have no access to welfare safety netOur new #NowhereToTurn research reveals around 1.375 million people in the UK have #NoRecourseToPublicFunds — meaning many face destitution and