#Healthcare

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

Lockdowns are unlawful and should never be attempted.But imagine if ebola (with a fatality rate of about 50%) suddenly becomes highly infectious, would lockdowns be justified then? 1/n Politicians are

Cristen_WRTN🔴

Cartersmom04

Thread on Federal Regs SARS-COV-2 diagnosis, reporting, policy changes and yes, masks which will include OSHA policy. Time is past to stop pointing fingers and understand how policy affects Healthcare

Atul Gawande

Atul_Gawande

NEWS: Important UK study of severe COVID risk by occupation. Healthcare workers = 8X risk vs non-essential workers.Social care (eg child/elder care) = 2.5X Transport =2.2XFirst responders=1.6X Teachers = 1.4X

Housing Works

housingworks

Yesterday, on #WorldAIDSDay @NYGovCuomo released a statement congratulating himself on his successes toward “bending the curve” of the #HIV epidemic. It was misleading at best. https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/world-aids-day-governor-cu

Daryl Sturgis✊🏽

darylsturgis

We've spent 4 days debating if Defund the Police was a bad political slogan and not talking about the fact that 58% of white voters gave a thumbs up to

🚩Shepherd🏴

NeolithicSheep

Time for the latest news from Pfizer trial land! I described the fever, chills, body and joint aches, and fuzzy head and the nose laughed and said "well that pretty

cartosocialism

cartosocialism

Biden announced he intends to appoint former US Rep Xavier Becerra to HHS. I’ve been seeing him lauded as a single payer supporter, so I decided to look into it.

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

A perspective on COVID from a sunny, crisp London house, in a break between zoom calls. Context: I am an expert in human genetics and computational biology; I know experts

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 142Medical Grand Rounds today, available here https://tinyurl.com/y5qo5kp7 . Today, a far-ranging discussion with @ashishkjha, one of the smartest, most thoughtful people I know in healthcare, and

UCWVA

UCWVA

What does an understaffed hospital system in a pandemic look like? UVA can tell you. A few days ago, UVA Med Center activated a policy which increases nurse/patient ratios in

Andrew Lee

andrewleedr

Lots of debate as to whether schools should open & are safe to open in light of the current situation. One factor is our risk appetite / tolerance. Do we

Inxsy Sparks

InxsySparks

“They” are Patriarchal White Supremacists. They do not want equality. They want the legal and societal right to control EVERYONE else for their personal benefit. Patriarchy is as much of

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pseudo_sapiens

All the people talking about contract farming merits, you do realize that for that to happen the premise is a contract. So basically first the kisan (who is not law

Jo Maugham

JolyonMaugham

And the PPE hits just keep on coming. £14.28m to a company that specialises in the "Wholesale of sugar and chocolate and sugar confectionery" https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:293557-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0 I mean, I t

THE FORUM

imperial_forum

It’s been a difficult year for all, but The Forum, Imperial's policy engagement programme has achieved an awful lot – with thanks to our amazing @imperialcollege community and external partners.

Jaevion Nelson

jaevionn

If we look at the management of the pandemic in Jamaica and are being honest, we did fairly well compared to several countries--some with way more resources than us. There

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