#PANDEMIC

Tonight, despite nearly 200 more comments against the strong mayor proposal than for it, the council “decided” to put it on the ballot.Most voting for it never touched the often
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Why is it so rarely noted that forecasting is actually crucial to informing all kinds of policy? Traditional social science and policy research is great for understanding what happened in
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Social Media outrage over inadequate healthcare is pure chicanery. Every person who is complaining about healthcare has had access to healthcare all these years and has availed of that merrily
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Brian Lamb explains the difference between "open as in thought leader" and "open as in helping students". There's a lot of inside baseball in this but for anybody in edtech
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another one another night done i also taped the mask to my nose so it wouldn’t fog up my glasses if anyone is interested i’ll continue this thread
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CONFIRMED: Nevada Department of Corrections ordered hydroxychloroquine after @GovSisolak banned non-hospital doctors from prescribing it. This statement is from NDOC. Thread (1/X) NDOC ordered the drug for those currently taking
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Know R0If it’s 1, it continues to spread.The greater than 1, the greater it spreads. R0 for SARS-Cov-2 is abt 3.Precautions such as masks, esstl activities
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And let's check in with NC Policy Watch's #COVID19 coverage:Attack infected GOP TreasurerLobby to release prison inmates Use pandemic to attack GOP What a ridiculous blogging outfit #ncpol Here's your
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I want to be excited for the future. I really do. And I have several reasons to be. I have an okay income again, working on several projects, I want
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Crash course on SARS-CoV-2 strains:The virus has a surprisingly low mutation rates but scientists believe that this is bc the virus has already been "optimised" to infect humans so little
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Shortly, Gov. @GavinNewsom and @CACorrections will announce that they ended two private prison contracts ahead of schedule and claim victory against mass incarceration.It's not just a hollow gesture. They just
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How would an entrepreneur likely think if he/she/they were elected to run India? (A thread) I strongly believe that by the 2030s we will witness start up personnel take part
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This is a great example of post-Cambridge Analytica data reporting that just fails to do the issue, the concerns or the public policy issue any service whatsoever.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/12/uk-government-using-confidential-patient-
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Since s on furin cleavage sites (FCSs) are now in fashion, I thought I should do one too.The S1/S2 FCS insertion in SARS2 (the covid-19 virus) is super interesting because
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Never have I hated a photo of myself more and it’s the feature photo of a @washingtonpost story!! It do be like that (a thread)https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/07/13/college-health-centers-problems/?arc404=true Jokes asi
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We’re in the middle of a pandemic and a lot of us will be dealing with unexpected loss and/or supporting someone dealing with unexpected loss, more specifically bereavement so I
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