#Transmission

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docrussjackson

When we're exposed to terms like 'woke', 'snowflake', 'cultural Marxism' or 'identity politics, we're experiencing 'weaponised narrative' - designed for speed of transmission, virulence, & exp

Diego Bassani, PhD 🏠😷

DGBassani

Denmark has been used as a talking piece for those suggesting school reopening has minimal risks. Let's clarify what exactly Denmark did to achieve minimal risk: First, some context. Denmark's

Luis Garicano

lugaricano

Some economists advocate for the cancellation of public debt held by the @ecb. This is political madness. The cancellation has no economic rationale and would fuel hawks, while the ECB

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

VACCINES can work!Another #COVID19 phase 3 vaccine trial reports awesome results. This time, an estimated 94% efficacy95 COVID19 detected: only 5! in the vaccine group and 90 in the placeboBut

The Profit Jesus

jesus_profit

1/ Been reading a lot of nonsense on the environmental cost of #bitcoin . For years people have rolled out arguments that $BTC consumes the same amount of power as

Krista Haase

ms_k_haatic

@richardzussman @MrJoshuaMcLeod It been said BC school plans align with other provinces and then Alberta was brought up as an example. It was said teachers and advocates are splitting hairs.

Amy Maxmen, PhD

amymaxmen

Azar just released a delusional, alternative history of Covid testing in the US. I’m mad because our testing failures allowed this outbreak to blow-up. We can’t fix our system if

Anup Malani

anup_malani

I'm excited to see our Karnataka sero-prevalence study out in @JAMA_current today. This is part of a longer chain of surveys we've done to track and understand COVID in India

Katie Kedward

katie_kedward

Some thoughts on the Dasgupta Review and what central banks & financial supervisors can draw from it in terms of nature-related financial risks.A thread of key quotes:https://twitter.com/katie_kedward/status/1356526288333377536 From the

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eliowa

Thoughts on the Pfizer vaccine news (from someone enrolled in the trial)First, there is light at the end of this tunnel. Thus, the "natural" herd immunity plan is unethical. If

Ben Babcock

Hey_BenB

So who's up for supporting the "#energydabate"? What's that you say? Oh, that's the process whereby legacy oil and gas companies harness the support of environmentally-minded folks to accelerate their

Megan McArdle

asymmetricinfo

Seeing a lot of this circulating on the right, so let me explain why folks are worried even though it is not literally true that every ICU bed in the

Peter Daszak

PeterDaszak

Taking part in the @WHO @rd_blueprint Global Research & Innovation Forum today. Here's a comment from @DrMikeRyan: "Countries w/ govts that communicate complex science directly to the public, & use

A.M.

bhalomanush

As we wait for vaccines, let’s not forget drugs. We still need effective drugs against SARS-CoV-2 (and other coronaviruses that will infect humans in the future).There is an approach that

Lizanne Foster

MovingParadigms

Schools are being kept open not because of the need for educating students, their primary function, but because #bced performs a social safety net function in the provision of food,

Tim Harford

TimHarford

Will it ever end? In November we were celebrating the announcements of several effective vaccines. Now hospitals are overwhelmed and the global death toll is climbing twice as fast as

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