#Transmission

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

Many Africans have a strong dislike and distrust of Western medicine, this is after decades of abuse by Western medical teams, doctors, international health organisations and pharmaceutical companies. Here are

✍️ Rachel McArthur

raychdigitalink

#Dubai press conference begins FYI.https://twitter.com/DubaiOneTV/status/1248234300006256644 HE Humaid Al Qatami (DHA): "The time it takes for someone to recover from #coronavirus depends on their pre-existing conditions, immunity etc."[We

Jose-Luis Jimenez

jljcolorado

A2.(1) Major historical error in 1910 became paradigm: + correct observation (ease of infection in close proximity) was misinterpreted as being due to ballistic droplets+ Stated that aerosol infection was

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

One of the things I love about my job is that I learn so many new things with every story. That was particularly true in my reporting for this story

Jon Hawkes

JonHawkes275

A really interesting presentation at January's #IAVEvent was the Leonardo DRS Mission Command Expeditionary Command Post (MC ECP) concept. A case of new automotive power generation tech enabling a rethink

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ariadneslament

An important read on a "paradox" of calculating the R. The overall R is useful to determine whether we have an epidemic, but the failure to recognise that it's actually

Elizabeth Stokoe

LizStokoe

Following our consultation on 21.8.20, inc. with @UniversitiesUK @UCU @timeshighered @nusuk, @IndependentSage's statement on Universities is published today. For a #ZeroCovid university and Covid-Safe Student Experience, our key recomme

Stephanie Kelton

StephanieKelton

Yesterday, @jasonfurman tweeted out my NYT piece on the Biden infrastructure proposal. He claimed I had ignored the most obvious way to deal with any inflationary pressures that might arise—i.e.

Rachael Bedard, MD

rachaelbedard

I really want schools to open, and also really think the benefits of doing so in our current context outweigh the risks. But “we just don’t surrender” is an insane

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

On what data has @educationgovuk made this decision? ONS data Easter showed clear increases in positivity among primary & 2ndary school children before Easter. No data following Easter, given schools

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

For months, New York sent more than 4,300 recovering elderly COVID patients back to nursing homes because of a Coumo directive. I don't get how this isn't the biggest news.

pierre haski

pierrehaski

[thread] À propos de l’OMS et de son attitude vis-a-vis de la Chine : en 2003, pendant l’épidémie de SRAS, le gouvernement chinois avait caché l’existence de cas dans la

Marijn "i before j" van Putten

PhDniX

I've been reading through the long-awaited new book by Shady Nasser "The Second Canonization of the Qurʾān".There is a lot of marginal transmissions of readings that surprised me, but Šuʿbah

Ishaan Desai

IshaanKDesai

Hi @PhilMurphyNJ @NJDeptofHealth @LtGovOliver:My mom is an #NJ postal worker. She goes to work daily to serve our state. Keeping her & others safe requires more robust systems to test,

Marijn "i before j" van Putten

PhDniX

Here's a very nice infographic on the development of the canonization of the Quran by @NaqadStudies. In the comments an interesting discussion developed on what "Semi-canonical Qurans" means and how

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

Graphs like the ones below scare me. I can't see how one can spin this as anything other than a disaster in the making. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html People often complain that I'm