#CORONAVIRUS

ProPublica

propublica

...the hospitals become a vector for infection and you lose the frontline people. Or worse — If you need them to handle a second wave of infections, even a smaller

Rachel Baxendale

rachelbaxendale

.@VictorianCHO said today of workers moving between hotel quarantine, aged care & public housing between July 27 and late August: "It was never one where you could just step in

Zhou Lab

ZhouLabUCR

Researchers have identified microscopic features including a unique furin cleavage site that could make the pathogen more infectious than the SARS virus @DrEricDing https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00660-x More information on the furin muta

Ben Ward

Benjamin_P_Ward

The UK parliament’s development committee @CommonsIDC has just released a strong report on the #Rohingya crisis [thread] https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/98/international-development-committee/news/146583/rohingya-refugees-are-b

Frank Quattrone

FrankQuattrone

Adm Mullen “I think the firing was a really bad decision,because it undermines the authority of the military commanders who are trying to take care of their troops and significantly

Linda 🥀

lindanewnham

This is the Facebook post of an expat living in Japan. She's describing her personal experience of guiding another expat friend through the task of getting medical attention for a

Ananyo Bhattacharya

Ananyo

1/ Some thoughts on medium/long term 'exit strategy'. I can't see one without significant drawbacks if, as seems likely, relatively small proportion of population infected with #coronavirus. Very happy to

Liverpool Critical Care at Aintree

CriticalCareAUH

1/This account was created in the summer purely to celebrate good news stories and positive feedback about our unit. We were proud of our team and how they had responded

Alasdair Munro

apsmunro

"If there's one thing we learn from history, it's that we don't learn from history"A new study from India looks at #COVID19 contact tracing And now reported, "[children] transmitted the

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

Great piece about how Japan beat coronavirus without hysterically destroying its economy or society: no lockdowns, no mass testing, no universal masking required. Two main steps - discourage clustering in

Michael Otsuka

MikeOtsuka

A thread on the impending, foreseeable @UniversitiesUK car crash: Cases have been surging since the re-opening of schools & the call to return to work in early September. 1/10 With

Montaigne

Montaigne01

Who is Carl Bergstrom? Carl is the guy who claims to be “calling bullsh*t” in data analysis, but is all too happy to stoke fear among parents and kids based

Phil McCann

phi1mccann

A review's found the plans for an #HS2 hub in Crewe are "unviable" in their current form because of coronavirus. @CheshireEast is looking at building it in phases instead, so

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

I hate this line of thinking (AnYtHiNg CaN HaPpEn NoW BeCaUsE TrUmP! 2016! 2020!)https://twitter.com/julianzelizer/status/1245729822694875136 Here's how Andrew Cuomo could be nominated. Joe Biden drops out. That *could* happen. He could

Julia Belluz

juliaoftoronto

In March, governments across Europe imposed targeted #covid19 lockdowns in hard-hit communities, followed by nation-wide measures.Today, it's March again in Europe. Except this time, we had 8 months to prepare.https://www.vox.com/215145

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

COVID Update May 26: 100,000 people have died from COVID-related causes.These deaths have been largely alone, not properly mourned, without notice, discounted, under-counted, and preventable. 1/ When my dad passed