#PANDEMIC

People are allowed to be both in favour of doing whatever it takes to stop this pandemic AND devastated at the idea of another full lockdown. They’re not mutually exclusive.
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Spoke with Miami U president Julio Frenk today. He said Miami has had zero positive tests in last 3 rounds of testing. Some other tidbits... (thread...) Frenk is former Minister
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How to Stay Safe at the Protests and Riots (A Thread) Firstly I would like to, again, comment on what’s happening. Black Lives Matter a l w a y s.
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bitches will be like "why cant i get anything done why do i feel like dogshit" and then willfully forget that we are living through a literal pandemic, the fascist
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THREAD: You wanna know why I’m pissed off for the Class of 2020 entering the legal profession right now? It has been made clear that they don’t care about us.
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love how since instagram hasn’t been doing much about reported accounts because of the pandemic, there are now a bunch of anti lgbtq accounts that post severely offensive content aimed
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The Human Mortality Database, jointly run by UC-Berkeley and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany, is publishing weekly mortality rates by age group for the US and
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Dalberg & Agami are hosting a series of webinars that bring together leading voices working in & around the justice system in #India to consider both the short-term impact of
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“It seems like they’re passing off the responsibility for controlling the outbreak to individuals and individual choices,” said Ellie Murray, an epidemiologist at Boston University. “A pandemic is more a
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A thread. For you #twitterblades digging out the board for a ‘lack’ of investment. What is it you actually want? @Saudi49er and the board have:1. sanctioned £100m+ of loan fees/transfer
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Tomorrow, New Caledonians are gonna get their 3rd attempt at independence; their 2nd under the current settlement. If it fails, they've only got one more shot at it in 2022,
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There are really two pandemics working against us simultaneously:COVID-19OLIGARCHY-1%One can be dealt with sensibly.The other is actively exploiting the current systemic shock, consolidating power, preventing humane solutions & must be
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Pennsylvania Health Secretary moved own mother out of a nursing home during pandemic while directing infected patients into themhttps://www.abc27.com/news/pennsylvania/pennsylvania-health-secretary-offers-guidance-governor-insists-on-gradual-reopenin
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I’m sending 4 emails this morning to scold people for not turning up for bookings made yesterday. That’s 10 people over the course of yesterday evening, when we have a
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We are now at 10,000 deaths in the UK: never forget that this was preventable.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/12/uk-coronavirus-deaths-preventable-government-account?CMP=share_btn_tw Cast your mind back four weeks. Remember how it
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#hamiltonmusical hit B’way in 2015 just as my separation and divorce were becoming real. A refrain I heard a lot was that my career was done, because I had
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