Coronavirus / Covid 19 News Sites

NYTimes Health (www.nytimes.com)

• World Seeks an End to Plastic Pollution at Talks in South Korea
• Trump’s Choices for Health Agencies Suggest a Shake-Up Is Coming
• 5 Ways R.F.K. Jr. Could Undermine Lifesaving Childhood Vaccines
• So Many Days Lost at the Doctor’s Office
• Listeria Outbreak Kills One, Prompts Recall for Yu Shang Food
• Trump Chooses Dr. David Weldon, a Former Congressman, to Lead the C.D.C.
• Dr Martin Makary Chosen to Head the FDA
• Can RFK Jr. Limit Ozempic Access as HHS Chief? Here’s What to Know

NYT Homepage (www.nytimes.com)

• Washington Curtails Intel’s Chip Grant After Company Stumbles
• World Seeks an End to Plastic Pollution at Talks in South Korea
• Trump Cabinet: Inside the Many Ideologies of His Nominees
• Hezbollah Fires Waves of Projectiles Into Israel After Deadly Strike in Lebanon
• Israel Conducts Widespread Strikes Near Beirut
• Donald Trump Thinks He Won’t Have Enough Power
• Rabbi Found Dead in Dubai in What Israel Calls Terrorist Act
• Dartmouth Sorority and 2 Fraternity Members Are Charged After Student’s Drowning

Washington Post World Coverage (www.washingtonpost.com)

• Live briefing: Director of one of last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza is injured
• Body of rabbi found in the UAE; three arrested
• In violent weekend, top E.U. diplomat pours cold water on Lebanon cease-fire
• Missing rabbi found dead in UAE; Israel blames ‘antisemitic terror’
• Fighting in Lebanon intensifies around Israel’s deepest known advances
• Director of northern Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital wounded, official says
• War fatigue deepens in Israel as deaths mount and fighting expands
• War fatigue deepens in Israel as deaths mount and fighting expands

Carol Yin (twitter.com)

• This letter needs to be read in its entirety and not just by Chinese Americans. If you’re a POC but don’t understand why you should support #BlackLivesMatter then read this piece. ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 chineseamerican.org/p/31571
• #AsiansForBlackLives ✊🏼✊🏿 twitter.com/reuters/status…
• I know, this immediately came to mind. Now that I’m seeing protests all over the world, I’m wondering if there will be any in China, especially in #Guangzhou given the number of black residents there.
• You were outraged by the #COVID19 racism faced by Asians? Then you should be supporting #BLM. #AsiansForBlackLives ✊🏼✊🏿 pic.twitter.com/jcgzgWltWa
• I didn’t create the photo, perhaps you can DM @Asians4BlkLives 🙂
• Canada never had slavery but it’s not free from systemic racism towards the black & indigenous communities. Remember Amy Cooper? She studied at @UWaterloo and is probably Canadian. This and the imagery below is why #BLMCanada protests are so important. twitter.com/eastfeed/statu…
• Are police killing black men in China? Do ppl here gun down black men? The type of racism that #BLM is trying to tackle is so much more profound than what you’re referring to. It’s also never a competition about who’s more racist and this movement is not about China.
• Been silent on Twitter after I broke down crying watching the video of George Floyd calling for his mama in the last moments of his life. But to be able to withdraw and live life as normal is a privilege. Instead I should and will be using my voice to support #BlackLivesMatter. twitter.com/asians4blklive…

8bit Investing (twitter.com)

• Yeah, we rotate our limited supply of N95s as well. Fortunately we haven't had to go out into uncontrolled public locations too often. I feel for those that do and wish our gov't would finally solve the mask problem on their behalf!
• I know this isn't exactly breaking news, but #Arizona's chart looks terrible. pic.twitter.com/bHBgDcfNCm
• At least the flu will get monkey-hammered this fall because of mask wear. Small comfort but a real one.
• If you count the NE in the US totals then yes, there was a distinct first wave. If you exclude the NE then.... not really. Just a slow continual climb that is likely escalating now.
• Show them this historically accurate pic and maybe they'll come around. pic.twitter.com/6JtQ9DJICN
• N95 or above. If everyone wore one of those I think Re would definitely be less than 1. However, even a surgical mask helps. However, the *personal* protection drops quite a bit with surgical/cloth. Wear N95+ if you can find them.
• No level of gov't was prepared and they sat on their hands in January and Feb too. So, to avoid the political catastrophe of health care workers having no masks at all, they pretended masks did not help to try and minimize public buying. Ass covering, in other words.
• Well, you can round up or round down. Obviously not every gov't official went as far as the US Surgeon General. However, the issue was so crucial that I can't give them the benefit of the doubt. I think "pretend" or "lie" are accurate words for their actions. pic.twitter.com/lvUbxtGZ8Q

Isaac Bogoch (twitter.com)

Infectious Diseases physician and scientist

• Study suggests that if enough people wear masks, R can drop below 1. I’m skeptical that masks alone can achieve this, but they don’t need to. Masks are only one tool. So wear masks, but please do all the other stuff (test and trace) too! reuters.com/article/us-hea…
• Follow up: that was fun.
• He wrote this: elsevier.com/books/travel-m… But his clinical teaching was where he blended clinical skill, humanity, pragmatism, and a great sense of humour.
• Many people will remember Dr. Jay Keystone, who passed away in Sept, 2019. He was a legend in Tropical Medicine, a phenomenal clinician, gifted teacher & had the best sense of humour. He was also a dear friend. His obituary was just published in @AJTMH tinyurl.com/ycxv2jfh
• This is going to be fun.
• When you read our thread (slide #4), you can see that we predicted ~6000 cases at that time. As per Egypt's reporting to the WHO yesterday, Egypt now has 35,444 cases & 1,271 deaths. bit.ly/2Uq7eR1 I hope control efforts are successful & people remain healthy.
• Report that 57% of residents in worst-hit parts of Bergamo have antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, consistent with existing evidence suggesting seroprevalence largely reflects outbreak size & there haven’t been huge undetected epidemics in places with low burden. reuters.com/article/us-hea…
• More on asymptomatic #COVID19 infections: There was a recent review in @AnnalsofIM: bit.ly/2MNOTcd But there still continues to be issues with accurately defining "asymptomatic". A data-driven response letter, led by @mugecevik available here: bit.ly/2AoTIGl

Jonathan Rothberg (twitter.com)

Working fast on home #coronavirus test. Invented fast DNA sequencing

• 45 minutes. We have developed the world’s first nucleic acid home testing platform. Sensitivity and specificity that only nucleic acid tests can achieve. We have a goal to move the test speed to 20 minutes within 6 months of launch.
• What date and time?
• Yes. We are the only at-home nucleic acid test. It’s hard. But we like to do things me no one else can.
• I had an in person meeting today. We tested everyone first. #Covid19 is going to wax & wane. Testing makes you safer. If you want to join a team dedicated to empower everyone on the planet to be safe email us. At-home testing. [email protected] homodeusinc.com/careers?gh_jid…
• Because 3 is better than 2… Total power consumption from one external @EGOPowerPlus battery for 3 simultaneous #DWI #MRI scans was less than 1000W TOTAL! pic.twitter.com/oeXJzfCDEV
• 🤞2nd best. Nucleic acid testing >> Antigen Testing >> Antibody testing. We know that nucleic acid testing can be >95% sensitive, and >>>95% specific. Antigen #Covid test in Labs are 85% sensitive (15% false negatives). RAPID (Flu) antigen tests are ~>30% false negative. pic.twitter.com/jyTDy6Of7M
• Dangerous headline and totally misleading. Please wear a mask. Please social distance. Please be smart. Don’t mince words. If you don’t think you have symptoms you can still kill someone. More testing. Sensitive molecular nucleic acid tests. apple.news/AohlkMsAFRxGCx…
• We are building a molecular point of care & at-home COVID testing with @JMRothberg. It is vital, audacious, & demanding. We're looking for molecular biologists, engineers, & developers to help us make this possible. Join us today —> bit.ly/36Y3JWS #covid

Tom Inglesby (twitter.com)

Director, Johns Hopkins SPH Center for Health Security

• @T_Inglesby nails it. Now is the time to double down, not power down. Over 20K cases per day now...and the ramifications for U.S. human and economic will rise the longer we fail to suppress it while so many of our traditional partners rise to the challenge. twitter.com/T_Inglesby/sta…
• Yes! Also not too late to surge PPE + testing reagents in the U.S. and globally. We are still in this and will be for awhile. twitter.com/cmyeaton/statu…
• Original photo was deleted but this is the photo my above tweet was referencing pic.twitter.com/3IDzv0hQOI
• National leaders and their teams should show the country how to stop transmission of Covid. CDC says: wear masks, physical distancing, no large gatherings. But here: no masks, no distance, and a big dense group? Irresponsible and need to do better. Many lives at stake twitter.com/mike_pence/sta…
• It’s still the same virus. The one that has caused 112k deaths in the US and is still killing 1,000 Americans a day. The decreased focus on it in DC is concerning. States on their own to make high stakes decisions, and not going well in many places nytimes.com/2020/06/10/us/…
• Report highlights many serious problems including: lack of access to PPE: inadequate training, knowledge, skills to allow them to safely and effectively respond to this crisis; lack of input to decision on workflow redesign, staffing, allocation of scarce resources... 2/x
• and disconnect btwn frontline nurses+ nurse execs and hospital leaders 3/x
• Cites recent American Nurses Association survey: 87% of nurses fear going to work, 36% have cared for an infectious patient w/out having adequate PPE; 11% felt well-prepared to care for a COVID-19 patient. 4/x

thelonevirologist (twitter.com)

Virologist

• Coronavirus: PPE stocks were in chaos . . . then army got a grip thetimes.co.uk/article/corona…
• Spain’s unsung heroes on the coronavirus front line thetimes.co.uk/article/spains…
• How to avoid the virus as the world reopens via @FT ft.com/content/2418ff…
• PRO/AH/EDR> COVID-19 update (251): Netherlands (NB, LI) animal, farmed mink, spread, culling zpr.io/tQBjx
• #Covid19usa: 2064677 cases (+19128) (incl. 5329 cases in Puerto Rico, 72 cases from the US VI, 30 cases from the Northern Mariana Islands, 180 cases from Guam)/115115 (+967) deaths (CFR: 5.57%) (800939 recoveries) reported by state PHD, @FluTrackers & @ProMED_mail as of 10 June pic.twitter.com/BVWY2OUfNu
• #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 : 7489477 cases (+133346) (84199 in China (excl. Hongkong and Macau) & 7405278 confirmed cases in other countries & 418102 deaths (CFR: 5.58%) as of 10 June per @ECDC_Outbreaks, @WHO, @ProMED_mail, JH CSSE & @FluTrackers. pic.twitter.com/QU2qUHC6KF
• Doctors Heavily Overprescribed Antibiotics Early in the Pandemic via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2020/06/04/hea…
• #Covid_19 in Germany: 184861 cases (+318) with 8729 (+18) fatalities reported by @rki_de, @FluTrackers and @ProMED_mail as of 10 June; average CFR per state is 4.32 (2.77-6.04)%; total CFR 4.72%; approx. 170700 (+500) recoveries pic.twitter.com/txJERPkODh

Andrew Lover (twitter.com)

Assistant Professor in Epidemiology @UMassSPHHS

• Much of it is directly applicable: ▶️ cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-r… ▶️ emergency-origin.cdc.gov/cerc/resources… as is the 2003 SARS material: ▶️ cdc.gov/sars/guidance/… #COVID19 #COVID19MA #COVIDー19 ▶️ ▶️ Time to crowdsource a rewrite? pic.twitter.com/Hztd8Srpd8
• twitter.com/AndrewALover/s…
• Boston Protesters Urged to Get Free COVID-19 Testing nbcboston.com/news/coronavir… #COVID19 #COVID19MA #COVIDー19 pic.twitter.com/mDL3b5QaQ4
• Western MA 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝘆-𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 epicurves, Jun 9 reporting. #COVID19 #COVID19MA #COVIDー19 pic.twitter.com/VHhfzv9yxs
• And 𝗹𝗼𝘄 case counts continuing. #CarefulLikeASloth pic.twitter.com/6E1lfYEozR
• And so it's entirely *plausible* asymptomatics have an equivalent, or even greater, contribution to overall transmission.
• Worth keeping in mind that WHO staff like @mvankerkhove @DrMikeRyan @SCBriand & more have been running at top speed since early Jan. Doing daily press briefings & assisting countries while under fire from all corners. They must be exhausted like all of us & need some support.
• twitter.com/devisridhar/st…

Jody Lanard MD (twitter.com)

Former WHO senior pandemic influenza comms advisor

• Point taken: YES, an independent scientific advice group. I am drawn to idea of former excellent high-ranking government officials of both U.S. parties, since they would be standing in for the current muzzled high-ranking US officials. But that's just my notion.
• At least 2 doublings before "lockdown", NY leaders were urged by health officials ("urged" is too weak a word) to impose targeted, layered social-distance measures, such as cancelling large gatherings and closing schools. Delay was contemptible. How can DeBlasio sleep at night?
• NOT overlooked by CDC. Years ago, it developed sophisticated communications capacity, much of it around pandemic/epidemic/outbreak issues. It developed superb crisis communication training and capacity. Not perfect, but great. (Dec. of interest: I helped.) It is being muzzled.
• Once again I propose a Shadow COVID Cabinet, with devoted experts like @DrTomFrieden and @ScottGottliebMD holding regular call-in pressers with top science reporters (and others as well) to update and advise the public. UK has its Shadow SAGE group. US should do this too.
• Once again I propose a Shadow COVID Cabinet, with devoted experts like @DrTomFrieden and @ScottGottliebMD holding regular call-in pressers with top science reporters (and others as well) to update and advise the public. UK has its Shadow SAGE group. US should do this too. twitter.com/LawrenceGostin…
• Experts and media: try to be METICULOUS re: whether you mean "asymptomatic" vs "pre-symptomatic" in discussing/reporting alleged findings. Similarly: the word "case" usually needs further explanation: case of disease? case of infection? etc. I give up on rate/ratio usage... twitter.com/gmleunghku/sta…
• And let's add "prodromal!"
• Thoughtful post by Peter Sandman. I don't always agree with him, but he's always worth reading. Wouldn't say we were wrong so much as we're learning-that's nature of public health. Contaminated surfaces may be important, including in superspreading events. bit.ly/30yWlAn

ɪᴀɴ ᴍ ᴍᴀᴄᴋᴀʏ, ᴘʜᴅ (twitter.com)

virologist. scientist

• This is what happens when you drift out of your "lane"?
• Be like pic.twitter.com/5BGxzmdWOf
• Stay in your lane you, you.... scientist! 😁 pic.twitter.com/mr9GKE2Lsr
• Wow wow wow. Tegnell got plenty of credit. He was abundatly arrongat at the beginning, making fun of those who were more conservative. And there were studies about 1918 flu available - harsher lockdwons —> short term pain, long term gain. news.mit.edu/2020/pandemic-…
• Is that what was going on???
• "On Tuesday, the government reported 1,043 new cases, a single-day high for the country" "Indonesia has one of the lowest rates of coronavirus testing in the world" Easing Pandemic Restrictions in Indonesia’s Capital Triggers Concerns @Diplomat_APAC thediplomat.com/2020/06/easing…
• Meanwhile, over the border (which remains closed): pic.twitter.com/YghVTijTBI
• 🙂

Nicholas A. Christakis (twitter.com)

Sterling Professor of Social & Natural Science at Yale. Physician

• Intriguing nudge from Twitter. @R_Thaler @LiamDelaney2020 @JonahDispatch twitter.com/TwitterSupport…
• The Vice President appears to have his unmasked supporters closely packed, but he himself is more than six feet away? twitter.com/notlarrysabato…
• Swiss police investigate boy, 8, over toy banknotes | And they are even more humorless than you can possibly imagine. Not the ⁦@TheOnion⁩ but bait for ⁦@FreeRangeKids⁩ theguardian.com/world/2020/jun…
• The protests of spring must be converted into votes in November. It will be hard. It will be unfair. But if we are successful and elect good people it will be the last time. New legislators can change unfair procedures. No more Wisconsins. No more Georgias. Get ready. Vote.
• In practice, 50-a — a law originally intended to shield good cops from vigilantes — protected police officers who habitually engaged in misconduct for decades. nyti.ms/3f8ATpJ
• Just the umbrella, or the whole shebang?
• The difference between actually fighting the pandemic versus doing a photo-op, perfectly captured: cnn.com/2020/06/10/pol…
• Yes! This thread 👇🏾 twitter.com/RachelBarkow/s…

Cate Cadell (twitter.com)

China correspondent @Reuters

• There's been a lot said about the merits of China's bureaucracy during #coronavirus lockdowns, but in a country that can ID-link a billion+ humans to tracing apps overnight, an accurate unemployment figure remains elusive - good read by @EmilyZFeng npr.org/2020/06/08/868…
• One of the defining experiences of being in China during #coronavirus is seeing the normally invisible surveillance and human registration requirements spring into action - here's how in.reuters.com/article/us-hea…
• And for more on how China reopened a mega city, check out this great graphic by @ReutersGraphics @AditiHBhandari and @SimonScarr graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-CORONAV…
• Particularly fascinating is how testing in the city ramped up in the past weeks. It's not antibody testing to see the true historic spread of the virus, but tests for live infections even as cases dwindle to naught. As one virologist described it, a "very costly piece of theater" pic.twitter.com/156sgNrHNn
• Wondering about asymptomatic #coronavirus carriers? Me too. Our great Asia colleagues pulled together a run-down. Keen to hear from more experts about the big scientific aspects us laypeople are missing (DM me!) reut.rs/36UzzDU
• This is a really great story, filling in another vital info gap in the early #coronavirus outbreak, and countering both Chinese & U.S. assertions with smart reporting apnews.com/3c061794970661…
• The WHO experience is also a microcosm of China diplomacy. Just try madlib this line from the story into any situation -> "______ debated how to press China for _____ and _____ without angering authorities, worried about losing access and getting Chinese _____ into trouble."
• As Shenzhen's manufacturers move inland or overseas, factory workers' rock band 重D音, is making music about migrant workers' lives in crowded dormitories, loneliness, the threat of injury, and romance. reuters.com/article/us-hea…

Amesh Adalja (twitter.com)

Infectious disease MD working on pandemic policy, emerging infections, preventing bioterror

• In this ⁦@CAStinchcombe⁩ ⁦@SELFmagazine⁩ piece I am quoted about how to think of #covid19 social distancing as states relax enforced social distancing self.com/story/social-d…
• In this ⁦@Miguel_NTD⁩ ⁦@news_ntd⁩ television interview I discuss #covid19 and protest transmission risk mb.ntd.com/officials-urge… mb.ntd.com/officials-urge…
• In this ⁦@AnnaHuntsman_⁩ ⁦@ideastream⁩ ⁦@WCPN⁩ radio interview I discuss how tear gas and pepper spray used on protestors may magnify #covid transmission risk ideastream.org/news/ohio-lawm…
• In this @KrystinaAlarcon @foxnews video interview I discuss the protests and #COVID19 foxnews.com/media/could-ge…
• At about 1215 pm eastern I’ll be discussing the latest on #covid19 on @MSNBC with @mitchellreports
• On new COVID outbreaks, @AmeshAA: "We're not nearly as bad as we were back in March but we want to make sure hospitals are equipped-that they have enough PPE, mechanical ventilators, & that contact tracers in health departments can deal with new cases." #AMRstaff
• “IDSA has recommended that sepsis without shock be removed from SEP-1, because the evidence supporting the effect of immediate antibiotics on survival is strong for septic shock and weak for sepsis without shock.” infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com/home/topics/se…
• “A novel antiviral class shown to be at least as safe and efficacious as oseltamivir but given via a single dose would be an important progression in the treatment of influenza” cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspecti…

Trevor Bedford (twitter.com)

Scientist @fredhutch , studying viruses, evolution and immunity.

• I never saw sequencing results from these putative PCR+ samples from France in Dec. Do you have a link?
• Thank you!
• I saw this at the time. No sequencing reported in this paper just the PCR result.
• Very impressive work! I especially like how you're able to take a collection of individual introduction events that will have large uncertainty, but look for large-scale statistical effects in distribution of TMRCA etc... Connection with force of infection seems clear.
• “Angsting” is a good way to put it. There’s a general debate about conducting science over Twitter. This particular question is so high stakes that it highlights this issue further.
• Thanks! I should read this more carefully, but generally it’s seemed clear that initial reductions in Rt mapped well to cell phone mobility data. I believe open question whether increased mobility via cell phone data will also mean a return to higher Rt.
• Total over the coming weeks / months. Again, this can be reduced by cutting these transmission chains.
• You get to 54k with R0 of 0.95 from 3000 + 2850 + 2708 + 2572 + etc... for 50 generations representing this cascade.

Andrzej Leszkiewicz (twitter.com)

My #COVID19 dashboard/report: http://avatorl.org/covid-19/

• You're sponsors of terrorism! I feel taste of lead and blood in your products.
• @Danone You're sponsors of terrorism! I feel taste of lead and blood in your products. pic.twitter.com/1ge9XB2Spm
• #PowerBI #COVID19 mymbas.microsoft.com/sessions/02164…
• Putin's bitches love bloody Russian money
• Twitter trends. Soros 558K vs Musk 137K. Something is wrong with this world. pic.twitter.com/B4StMez6DJ
• if someone is talking about Soros look for Russian tourists Petrov and Bashirov. They are closer than you think.
• Russian bots
• Number of tweets about a person doesn't depend on my preferences.

Scott Gottlieb, MD (twitter.com)

Resident Fellow @AEI . Partner @NEA . Contributor @CNBC

• Congratulations to @PatrickConwayMD on this prominent new role where he will continue to make important contributions to public health. twitter.com/PatrickConwayM…
• “There’s certain parts of the country that look pretty hot right now,” Dr. Scott Gottlieb says about coronavirus spread in places like Arizona and Texas. cnb.cx/37fSxVZ pic.twitter.com/Vgp0YCDihN
• Texas shows rising daily Covid cases and rising positivity rate -- a concerning pattern. They report total daily hospital census but do not appear to separately report total daily new hospitalizations, however selected medical centers do, including Texas Medical Center in Houston pic.twitter.com/GbTrmwLoFT
• We’ve updated our tracker at aei.org/covid-2019-act… to include a 14 day rolling average of local risk index (LRI) and positivity rate ratios per county pic.twitter.com/pCT5qrY9ab
• FDA Biologics Chief Peter Marks: I'm going to say something that's a little controversial here. pic.twitter.com/tElLKhNQqn
• FDA's Marks likens vaccine capacity to an oxygen mask on an airplane. "You're going to put on your own first and then we want to help others as quickly as possible. We do see a lot of collaboration." #BioDigital #covidvaccine
• The latest Covid19 model from Morgan Stanley (which is closely followed by investors) shows an epidemic doubling time of 60 days and an epidemic that is continuing to slowly expand nationally; while many states show outbreaks that are growing more quickly. pic.twitter.com/GpFNouYfwN
• Temperature screening alone could provide a false assurance related to covid infection. One recent study of patients presenting in New York showed about 70% of those sick enough to be hospitalized for Covid19 didn’t have fevers on triage at the hospital. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Helen Branswell (twitter.com)

Sr writer, infectious diseases @statnews . Conspiracy theory free zone

• Missing live music? (who isn't?) #ANightForAustin is serving up some fine performances. #COVID19 anightforaustin.com
• Did a coronavirus write this? pic.twitter.com/chlEuna9Pp
• #Ebola in Equateur Prov., DRC: @WHO says the case count is still 12 cases (9 conf, 3 probs) & 8 deaths. Two are health workers — always sad & bad. Some of the cases have died in the community; again, bad for transmission. Some cases in Bikoro - very remote, challenging to reach.
• The story notes the mink farms are being phased out. Must close by 2024.
• Another victim of #Covid19: the Netherlands' mink farms. @martinenserink on the spillover of the virus from people to farmed mink —  and back, at least twice. sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/c…
• Hi. It's unpublished data. @mvankerkhove referenced it in last Friday's @WHO Covid press conference. See screen shot for that portion of the transcript. pic.twitter.com/509HUDccVe
• It isn't gone. #Covid19 #SARSCoV2 washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06…
• Thanks.

Jon Stokes (twitter.com)

Ars Technica founder. Later WIRED, etc

• twitter.com/jonst0kes/stat…
• Serious people are now talking "America’s Civil War." From this piece: the Antonio Gramsci quote: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” prospect.org/politics/ameri…
• absolutely devastated after going down to pitch in at the capitol hill autonomous zone organizing tent only to find out the anarchist commune already has an L2 AWS cloud solutions engineer
• If the protestors burn down my copy of Mage Knight then Imma strap up and Boog. Daddy's headed to the Ice House... pic.twitter.com/KS62TSYasE
• theconversation.com/covid-19s-dead…
• the resulting shape is a spiral.
• For reference, the top end of this estimate is an entire year's worth of officer-involved killings of all types for all races in the US. twitter.com/trvrb/status/1…
• Astonishing document: conference call between mayor and Chicago aldermen, anguished that businesses they begged to get into their wards burn down, fearing they'll never return. Swearing, tears. news.wttw.com/2020/06/05/wha…

@Covid19 (twitter.com)

• What happens to US states with rising cases and swamped hospitals, no political will for reissuing Stay at Home Orders and re-closing businesses and no public will for masking, isolation and quarantine?
• and no public will for isolation and quarantine, even if people are tracked and traced
• thread twitter.com/chrislhayes/st…
• With 39,797 Covid deaths Brazil is now on the verge of overtaking UK as place with second highest official death toll. I suspect history will judge Bolsonaro even more harshly than it will Boris.
• .@GYamey & Dean Jamison @TIME: "The hard truth in the U.S.’s sobering death rate...is that a great many of those deaths were preventable. Countries that took swift, coordinated action have been largely able to avoid the worst effects of the virus." tinyurl.com/ydas7p85 #COVID
• And if we don't want the death rate to continue to rise in the US, continue social distancing, masking, avoiding large gatherings, avoiding extended time in public indoor spaces. This isn't anywhere near over. twitter.com/PeterNeumann11…
• The U.S. has now reached 2 million coronavirus cases. The U.S. has 4% of the world's population but 28% of all Covid cases. More than 112,000 people have died in the U.S. from coronavirus, more than in any other country in the world. reuters.com/article/us-hea…
• I'm tired. So I'll just say this once and keep retweeting: We can't have a "second wave" if we're not done with the first wave. We're not out of the COVID-19 pandemic yet, friends.

Naval (twitter.com)

Internet Philosopher & Investor

• What book is that?
• Ah yes, time to dig back into it. Thanks.
• Yes, just don’t lean back so you don’t fall asleep.
• Taking a break.
• 100% truth. Your mind is an ever-producing thought machine. The world is an ever-producing noise machine. The older I get, the more I realize that success just means peace from both.
• Fake News!
• Well said.
• pic.twitter.com/Z4OAu16foJ

Balaji S. Srinivasan (twitter.com)

Taught bioinformatics at Stanford

• I’m not bullish on this specific project :) I am interested in the fact that autonomous zones in the West are now being discussed.
• COVID roundup - Studies critiquing HCQ were themselves fake - WHO finally recommended masks - WHO messed up statement on asymptomatic spread - Piece on long-term effects in Atlantic Reminds me of the Gartner hype cycle. Ignored, attention peak, ignored — and then it comes back? twitter.com/jonst0kes/stat…
• Complex topic, but defunding the police is on a straight line with defunding the state. And declaring an autonomous zone is on a straight line with creating a startup society. If you take something down, you should build something better. Revolutions are judged by their fruits. twitter.com/joshuapotash/s…
• Many people want a blank space to experiment, to start new things, to begin from a clean slate. The internet is the closest thing to a frontier today. But can we reopen physical frontiers? Can we do so peacefully, to create new ways of living, without the baggage of the past?
• Yes. But the internet means that we can build startup societies online with less downside in case of failure. In particular, with VR architecture & virtual currency one can create functional digital cities. The ones that succeed can then be materialized into the physical world. twitter.com/arnoblalam/sta…
• I am bearish on this particular project for that among other reasons, though we’ll see what happens. But the concept of autonomous free zones in the West is important, and they have injected it into the conversation.
• “Nation-states are a Western invention, naturally vulnerable to Western influence. Civilizations are an alternative to the West.” twitter.com/macaesbruno/st…
• An addendum to @MacaesBruno piece is that while the physical world fractures into competing civilizations, modernity continues online in the form of the global internet. Digital globalism, physical localism.

Michael Mina (twitter.com)

Asst Professor of Epidemiology & Immunology & physician @ Harvard School of Public Health/Medicine

• Still seems like any time we talk about IFR it should be our responsibility to clarify that this comes from an enormously skewed distribution. If 60% of all deaths in MA have happened in Nursing Homes (true), I think this is relevant when interpreting the IFR.
• Why the world needs a Global Immune Observatory for viruses in a time of pandemics. With @CJEMetcalf and Bryan Grenfell, @JeremyFarrar, Adrian McDermott and Danny Douek elifesciences.org/articles/58989
• Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright talks about his new novel about a fictional pandemic that hit a little too close to home. But first: Epidemiological developments and news on our real pandemic. @michaelmina_lab @lawrence_wright wnpr.org/post/facts-and…
• Now is your chance to have your COVID-19 questions answered by experts @JustinLessler and @michaelmina_lab! Post questions for the next #EpidemiologyCounts podcast. @BryanDJames twitter.com/societyforepi/…
• Couldn’t agree more.
• A Global Immunological Observatory to meet a time of pandemics doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…
• 1/6 Some very large, densely packed crowds at protests yesterday. Although outdoors WAY less risky than indoors, and although the vast majority of people protesting wore masks, crowding and large numbers increase risk of spread. pic.twitter.com/GioowsM4oV
• In light of the retractions it's worth remembering: Peer review is one imperfect part of the at-least 4-part safety net that keeps science functioning. Layer 1 is basic ethics among investigators: don't make up or misrepresent data.

Abraar Karan MD (twitter.com)

doctor @brighamwomens @harvardmed | working on #COVID19 epidemic response

• "As doctors, this is the time to speak up and step up. This is not about politics. This is not about preserving the status quo, or being afraid to ruffle feathers. This is about life and death." @AbraarKaran @IngridKatzMD @harvardmed @BrighamWomens go.shr.lc/2A8f1fl
• Health departments usually will have this information, but not sure that it all gets reported to the media. I help w/ reviewing some CDC investigations as well, which usually end up in their Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, but there is a notable lag obviously.
• This is important. We need to follow case investigations out further to assess whether these events led to large outbreaks. We then need to piece together which characteristics are and are not linked to so called “super spread”. Read this⬇️ twitter.com/zeynep/status/…
• More evidence/data likely in favor of masks. Also need to study carefully what other characteristics may have been relevant in terms of the layout/physical spaces; individuals; as well as NPIs. twitter.com/zeynep/status/…
• Longer thread below— 7-day average at peak levels is not a good sign. Need to also measure this against number of tests being run, look at % positive tests to understand more clearly. More thoughts as well on short-term + longer-term strategies #covid19 twitter.com/abraarkaran/st…
• Longer term efforts that must happen ASAP but may take more time: •scaling up testing/decreasing testing turn-around time for PCR •scaling up tracing efforts, potentially speeding up using digital platforms/reducing time between exposure—> quarantine
• Not sure- will need to look at that data more closely. Remember that deaths will lag. Deaths will be slower to show up as long as healthcare capacity is there to keep people alive.
• If I had to focus efforts quickly on two things, they would be: •masks, esp in high risk situations/ for vulnerable people (ideally higher filtrate than regular cloth ones) •avoiding crowds/closed spaces/close contact settings (Japan 3 C’s approach) to stop superspread