#Deaths

THREAD: 1/6 The individualization of COVID risk is a political strategy the government deploys to distract from the reasons why we're in this mess to begin with, and to redirect
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Sorry @ilhousegop. You're not helping matters with your report on COVID19. Let me show you why, & how you might put your political pull to better use to actually help
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Honestly I think my main problem with the overusage of the dragon balls is that it takes away the emotional impact of character deaths and stuff, in the original Dragon
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1/ Spent the evening slicing and dicing the @onthealth COVID19 case-by-case database. Found here: https://data.ontario.ca/en/dataset/confirmed-positive-cases-of-covid-19-in-ontariohttps://data.ontario.ca/en/dataset/confirmed-positive-cases-
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1\ An urban legend that refuses to die is the idea that "BIPOC patients are more likely to die in childbirth" and that this must reflect systemic racismThis idea is
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I know that COVID-19 has a lot of us thinking about systems, and the ways they are oppressing and failing so many people in this country. I’ve been thinking how
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but you're allowed to be disappointed about something being cancelled or delayed because of the pandemic You can know intellectually that social
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While it may appear that Sweden’s approach is dramatically different from US or other countries that have “lockdowns” on paper, in reality there is lots of movement of people in
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But in absolute terms, the number of known cases in the South is growing quickly and — because of the larger population in the region — seems very likely to
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Lot of talk on the scale of under-reporting of deaths in India in this Covid19 wave. My research on the 1918 influenza outbreak in India placed it as 3x i.e.
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1) Our superspreader president has blood on his hands, and so does the Republican Party 2) A new study from Columbia University lays the deaths of tens to hundreds of
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The government has been criticised for delaying its lockdown measures after it was suggested that the faster implementation of restrictions in Ireland significantly reduced the number of deaths.https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/irelands-swift-a
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1000 souls lost in the UK today... 2000 in the US... all covid deaths. That’s not calculating the other natural & accidental/unnatural deaths that happen every day regardless of covid.Stay
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During the 1918 influenza outbreak, San Francisco closed non-essential businesses.Cases went down and they quickly reopened, thinking they had won.But then deaths DOUBLED after they prematurely declared victory. Many refused
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This @FT analysis of the mistakes leading up to lockdown makes the same mistake the Sunday Times analysis did — it assumes the critical error was not locking down earlier.https://www.ft.com/content/aa53173b-eb39-4055-b112-0001c1f6de1b
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My dad is in Brooklyn volunteering at Woodhull hospital, it's been converted into a COVID center. He's a Pulm/Critical Care physician. He's the only one. 3 respiratory therapist for 70pts
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