#PANDEMIC

Gonna make a thread of polls for my followers because I'm genuinely curious on some things and look at using ck to spread awareness on some suitable topics. (Mental health
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That's me in the corner That's me in the spot Lights Losing my cognition Trying to think Of words On cue Like a...thing Like a whatever Oh no I've said
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Just a reminder that #essentialworkers have been working straight through #COVID19 for the past four months and still have yet to receive anything more than the initial stimulus (for those
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Correct, we don't have "gating criteria"—our core concept is that the conventional gating criteria falsely assume that everyone is at equal risk of morbidity & mortality from #COVID19. The evidence
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You know ... I was thinking today that we actually DO have a precedent for the US government ignoring, minimizing and downplaying a deadly global virus. It's Reagan, with HIV.
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Conservative thinktank AEI says that before states can move into Phase II (gradual re-opening), they must have in place the capacity "to test all people with COVID-19 symptoms, along with
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Saturday's sunlight is almost over, so let's catch up on what you missed. Here is your daily thread of Northwest coronavirus news. NEW NUMBERS Oregon confirmed 76
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Because I'm blocked, and @dr_ulanov screenshotted this thread, I'm going to say a few words about Dan Paperclip and his spurious (at best) ideas about "school choice" and teachers unions
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Debenhams protesters are being arrested after occupying the Henry St store.Protesters tell me they’ll “eat their Christmas dinner on the loading bay” if that’s what it takes to get what
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Surgery w #COVID19 series in @EClinicalMed: Sx during COVID incubation & 1st manif post-oplearningsCommon post-op symptomsvigilance & low-threshold for post-op test Outcomes, 20% deathAvoiding Sx protects patientsTest pre-op!Details#COVID19s
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By the end of this month, the staff of @virginianpilot will be moving out of our historic downtown Norfolk headquarters. Since 1937, generations of Pilot journalists have created the “daily
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There's a more general problem, hinted at but not made explicit in this piece, that the framing of pro-lockdown vs denialism is handing over analysis of the pandemic to two
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It seems to me that a lot of the economic discussion of Covid impacts and policy response is still using the wrong metaphors and models. For example, we keep hearing
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My students just completed a module titled "Liberty in the Technological State" in my Sc, Tech & IR course.Health surveillance is necessary in a pandemic but the extensive data collection
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I start by acknowledging the horrific human cost of the Corvid-19 pandemic & the dedication of our underfunded, under resourced healthcare services. My paper today is about digital tech &
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Can’t wait to see how effectiveness of this measure will be monitored https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/1107/1176560-coronavirus-ireland/ via @rte This is Denmark’s public health response to the new SARS-CoV-2 mink variant. Matc
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