#PANDEMIC

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NeolithicSheep

Ok so during OIF the chemical weapons detector went off twice. One of those times I was on the internal comms circuit listening to the forward and aft lookouts beg

George Taiaroa

georgetaiaroa

George here, with a brief summary of our revised preprint; the first native RNA sequence of SARS-CoV-2 using @nanopore, and a data-driven inference of genetic features and evolutionary rate. 1/12https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.05.9761

Janine Gibson

janinegibson

Free to read: FT analysis by @ChrisGiles_ suggests UK’s coronavirus death toll could be as high as 41,000https://www.ft.com/content/67e6a4ee-3d05-43bc-ba03-e239799fa6ab?segmentid=acee4131-99c2-09d3-a635-873e61754ec6 See this excellent thread for the

Somya Lakhani

somyalakhani

Helpline aside, journalists need supportive, empathetic newsrooms & editors, who have your back, who care for your well-being, & don't rush you back to the field after you've fallen sick

Andrew Petrosoniak

petrosoniak

I'm fascinated by how we can leverage evidence to inform behavior change. A thread based on literature & our #design of spaces & processes in high-stakes environments @AdvPerformHD @HumanFact0rz @ASPphysician

John Greenfield

greenfieldjohn

THREAD: I probably shouldn't be giving this garbage oxygen and clicks but, sorry, I can't help myself, this is the most entertainingly stupid anti-urbanist op-ed I've seen this side of

Carolyn Cannuscio, ScD

CarolynCannu

The pandemic brings a strange mix of conviviality (outdoor street dining in November) and deep mourning and loss. Last night I walked through the city and saw so many ppl

Stephen Reicher

ReicherStephen

COVID cases spike to 3000 a dayGovernment blames young people realxing and partying and endangering everyone else.This is so wrong and so counter-productive.Here are four reasons why First, it is

Alix ☕🐵 COMMISSIONS CLOSED

justThemys

There's something both very useless and very cruel in teens anti yelling "get a job" (or "do your taxes" "go vote") to pro-shippers. Like let's focus on the job one,

Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv

BandyXLee1

What rebuke will the American Psychiatric Association suffer? When it came out that the American Psychological Association facilitated torture during the Iraq War, it was scandalous. But now the APA

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

A brief summary of the very precarious situation we are in now, and why we have a very narrow window to act in the UK. If we don't act now,

Todd Lowdon

tlowdon

Despite abundant recent research & accumulated knowledge, Birx claims "asymptomatic, silent spread in the community" is driving the pandemic (start @ 4:30). She urges expanded surveillance & more testing to

Oni #BraylaStone Blackstock

DrOniBee

A White woman colleague who I hadn’t heard from in some time contacted me *urgently* abt a project abt minoritized trainees that I co-led *several yrs ago*. She was *now*

shirinvossoughi

shirinblue

a global pandemic is not pearl harbor, is not 9/11. War metaphors continue breathing life into the American arrogance that helped lead to the very large number of people currently

Friends of Parkwood Surgery

ParkwoodFriends

‘Coughs and sneezes spread diseases.’That slogan was a US public health message used during the Spanish Flu Epidemic. It’s a message which remains just as true 100 years on, during

Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions

mynamesnotgordy

What I learnt on the Twitter this week:1. O'Toole says Ontario's Health Minister Trudeau isn't doing his job.2. CPC outraged about federal spending. Provincial Conservatives demand more federal money. Hospitals