#Countries

Amer Bisat

abisat

1/7. Warning: a geeky thread on #EmergingMarkets “original sin”. There is a seemingly unanimous view that local currency borrowing lessens EM vulnerabilities and allows countries to engage in counter-cyclical policies.

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

1/ Another Friday evening, another moment to reflect. And mourn. And be angry beyond words.CDC COVID-VIEW comes out on Fridays. It’s a refreshing break from the amateur, uninformed epidemiology from

David W. Higgins

higginsdavidw

There's a lot of scaremongering going around about nursing homes.Claims that residents are being "left to die".A few points on that...1/ The first is that there clearly *are* issues. The

Simon D. A. Clark

Sunkensie

Interesting new preprint on diagnostic uncertainty - a higher quantity of COVID19 tests will probably do more harm with poor test targeting (eg. contact tracing) i.e more "no test is

Kingsley Moghalu

MoghaluKingsley

Some years ago, while I was Dep. Governor in charge of Financial System Stability @cenbank, a very big politician from northern Nigeria told me: "Dr. Moghalu, I first got to

𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍

jvipondmd

OK here's what I really think. 1/https://twitter.com/jvipondmd/status/1387519641799462914 "The notion that there is a direct linear relationship b/w restrictions and viral spread is not the experience of this pandemic." Refere

Kaal Chiron काल्किरण

Kal_Chiron

1. This is COVID-19 progression data of the world projected on a log scale for 23 days2. Y-axis is log-scale. Plotting started when COVID cases crossed 200 in any given

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lunekang

a thread on dia de los muertos and what it is for non mexicans dia de los muertos directly translates to day of the dead in english, however the celebration

Majola kaJolinkomo

yomgqashiyo

I’m always reluctant to advocate for graduates because SA graduates don’t know the country they live in, they don’t understand the challenges it faces and how they can contribute in

Megan Konar

MeganKonar

How does trade impact the environment?A thread collecting papers that address this question. Emphasis on research using causal inference methods.Please let me know what papers should be included![THREAD]1/n Is trade

ivainashe

ivainashe1

Well what I am appreciating about this pandemic especially in Africa is that,these corrupt politicians in my view are exposed for their tomfoolery. How incompetent they are all these years.

Shannon Kowalski 💚

skowalski

The US just called for a vote on the outcome document of the ESCAP #Beijing+25 Ministerial review. It's absolutely appalling after days of negotiations that they would do this. They

Amy Thurlow

athurlow

Because I'm raging about a flagship show on a big streaming platform trying to offer basically a bag of fruit snacks as pay for their SC and because not that

Andrea Herd

AndreaHerd2

CHINA HAS BEEN THE CENTER OFVIRUSES SINCE MERS, SARS, EBOLAAND CORONA VIRUS...WHEN EBOLA OUTBREAK IN CONGOI WAS monitoring this. WonderedWhy it took World Health Organization.So long to make it an

mike schussler

mikeschussler

I do not know enough but I know stats well enough. The peak of the epidemic in the world seems over for now. In the USA total deaths is not

Lewis Darko

DarkoLewis

I tweeted this a few days ago out of pure emotion, disappointed @NAkufoAddo for not saying anything about #EndSARS . I’ve given it some thought (and a bit of