If you’ve time to watch this it’s Brice Aylward talking a out how China has dealt with COVID-19. Explodes myths. Young people die without obvious risk factors; the mortality rate is 1-3%; not clear schools need to shut & each day counts. youtu.be/reVadDRwy_A

These Australian researchers have just worked out how the body fights coronavirus #coronavirus abc.net.au/news/2020-03-1…

The Australian #COVID19 modelling was published today. My thanks to James McCaw (James McCaw) for checking this thread. I’ll do two threads - one explaining the results and how we might interpret them; and another to try to explain how these models work. x.com/peripatetical/…

This Easter weekend will be different to any others before. You mustn’t go to holiday accomodation or a BnB. Don’t visit relatives or friends or have them over. It’s hard. But if we drop our guard now, all our hard won gains will be lost. #StayHome #SaveLives

Some sports are slower. More about the strategy.

1. Not an epidemiologist 2. Overstates swimming pool deaths by a factor of 100 3. Auto accidents, smoking related deaths and swimming pool drownings, while tragic, are not contagious

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What a wonderful description of the Doherty Institute COVID19 leadership group - not only recognizing their deep expertise but also their mutual respect and teamwork. Thank you Damien Brown! Glad to have you part of the team!

the fact that if you take a giant blob of hydrogen and let physics do its thing for a few billion years, you eventually end up with self-assembling atomic nano-robots never ceases to fucking blow my mind

Sights you never thought you’d see. An oxygen tanker with police escorts. More precious than gold. #india #covid19

"More cartoonists tomorrow" ! by Banksy #JeSuisCharlie (via #banksy fb page)

Love your family. Work hard. Be kind. Be humble. Share the credit. Do your best. Laugh a lot. Be respectful. Show gratitude. Stay curious.

What happens when you invest in girls and women? It's simple: We all win. ow.ly/PIdWA via Devex #FFD3

Addis Ababa Action Agenda agreed in Ethiopia! Get the details here: wp.me/p5Mdaw-1P9 #FFD3 #Action2015

Yup, “Ancient Sea Salt” would be a scientifically accurate branding for ordinary table salt.

Happy to make an exception and empower you to do my thinking on this point, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and shamelessly retweet :-) x.com/neiltyson/stat…

The 10 commandments of logic.... x.com/TheSGEM/status…

One of the best tools we’ve ever seen for helping people lift themselves out of poverty: b-gat.es/1MCppo4

The Onion, tragically with no need for satire. theonion.com/article/no-way…

Thanks for the lovely book review, @gko_madness! Very kind of you. My recommendation: What is the What Dave Eggers x.com/gko_madness/st…