#Risk

“Out of 220 countries and economies, 194 have now started vaccination and 26 have not”, says @DrTedros at #covid19 @WHO presser. “Of those, seven have received vaccines and could start,
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Hi world. On Friday, March 27, I began experiencing symptoms of COVID-19, including a pounding headache, diarrhea, shortness of breath, and a sore throat. Taking no chances, I isolated myself
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1) Montreal nearly crossed a long-sought threshold Monday for the most ideal conditions to reopen schools. The city lowered its #COVID19 incidence to about one case per 100,000 population in
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Senator Burns: So let's go through this one last time, Director Turing. Am I correct in understanding that there were NO humans in the control loop when the satellite made
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Wisconsin GOP officials knew concerns about public health risks and voter disenfranchisement, yet they wielded power in courts to force state to hold primary in pandemic.Thread will document many of
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Great article in @sciencemagazine about alerting thresholds for earthquake early warning (EEW): https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6468/957. The authors say we need more social science research on EEW systems. #ShakeAlert agrees! (1/10) @Cal_
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PLEASE SHARE - Coronavirus Update It has just been confirmed that all of London will be moved into Tier 2 Covid level restrictions, including #Carshalton and #Wallington, meaning the risk
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Read this before you come to conclusions!Yesterday Central government released the first installment of Central share of State Disaster Response Mitigation Fund (SDRMF) to State governments during 2020-21 Some of
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Understandable yet very depressing scenes in Spanish Arch tonight.I'll try to address a few issues here, and dispel a few myths, without attributing blame to young people.Some of the misinformation
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@mikemadowitz and I had a productive conversation about this data.It turns out, the disparity in marriage employment *counts* is mostly an artifact of something else going on in the household
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New important thread.Explored: Rockefeller communique on #contacttracing, Verified (UN) guide on #vaccine #communications, insights via #vaccine Confidence Project, & a Behavioral Insights report. Today> special report from Oct 15 20
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A thread about marijuana. I am not the first person to write about this. I won't be the last. I am not even the first charismatic, reformed, politically liberal
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just a reminder that doctors have confirmed that there is literally no feasible medical reason that you would be unable to wear a mask. yes, it may be uncomfortable, but
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Worth reading / rereading - on the risks of gain of function research from 2014 from The Cambridge Working Group #covid19 #GainOfFunction http://www.cambridgeworkinggroup.org/  “Whenever possible, safer approaches should be pursued
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1/ I have been asked extensively during interviews and by the public about my own personal decisions during this pandemic. I never answer questions like "which air cleaner should I
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Economist here. This is extremely wishful/partisan thinking. The economy is in ruins totally because of the mitigation. Synchronized mitigation in locations with no community transmission.https://twitter.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/131674648
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