In last 24 hrs there've been prominent US voices calling for a stop to social distancing, citing rationale that they're worse than impact of COVID itself. It’s worth looking very closely at that claim, where we are in US COVID epidemic and what happens if we stop. 1/x

Thank you everyone for your incredible messages of support and encouragement.♥️ Many of you asked what it was like in the ER right now. I want to share a bit with you. Please RT: A Day in the Life of an ER Doc - A Brief Dispatch from the #COVID19 Frontline:

"If my colleagues and I are going to have a fighting chance to protect our citizens, we need more than words of encouragement." ow.ly/J9iM30qsaez

I cant believe the conversation in the States has shifted overnight to: "Maybe we can stop social distancing in 2 wks to save the economy, and the old people who dont contribute to economy anyway should just take one for the team." That's some Nazi level scary shit right there.

Donald J. Trump Sending everyone back to work to get the economy roaring again is not going to magically make the coronavirus pandemic disappear. We will all be put back into this stay at home situation except hundreds of thousands of critically ill patients will flood our hospitals and ICUs.

Hearing that ER doctor, Colleen Smith who filmed the video of Elmhurst for NY Times was let go. Is that right, NYC Health + Hospitals The New York Times? 13 Deaths in a Day: An ‘Apocalyptic’ Coronavirus Surge at an N.Y.C. Hospital nyti.ms/3dspIbn

Nassim Nicholas Taleb World Health Organization (WHO) Sad but true, you suck World Health Organization (WHO) . The mask countries are so much better off. Best masks should go to highest prio of course. Hospitals, nursing homes etc

This is the strongest statistical association I've seen w/ respect to the virus. Wear a mask, mandate others to wear masks, & remember that World Health Organization (WHO) is criminally incompetent. To repeat:World Health Organization (WHO) is criminally incompetent. PS-Don't get into elevators, buses, etc. unless your mask in N95

This is chilling. A nurse on the front lines in Chicago tried to wear her own N95 to work while caring for COVID pts (when it wasn’t supplied for her) & she was told by management she would not be allowed to. She quit her job. Dr. Martha Gulati ♥️🫀❤️‍🩹🇨🇦 C. Michael Gibson MD Boback Ziaeian 🤦🏻‍♂️ JK Han MD

The Surgeon General should be sued. We will have plenty of time to bring these dangerous idiots to account.

"The Case for Universal Cloth Mask Adoption & Policies to Increase the Supply of Medical Masks for Health Workers" by me Judy Chevalier Nicholas A. Christakis (((Howard Forman))) E Kaplan, A Ko (Chair of Epidemiology @yale) S Vermund (Dean of School of Public Health @yale) dropbox.com/s/6ua7j979dbqb…

April 10th US outlook via Financial Times #dataviz: Still sub-2000 deaths/d on the 7-day avg (but tops all) and about to hit 20,000 on the cumulative curve. The doubling time of 3+ days still is not going to get us to ~60,000 deaths; need more flattening! #StayHome #StayHomeSaveLives

On the Navajo Nation reservation, COVID has killed more people than in the entire state of New Mexico, which has a population 13 times larger. Let that sink in.

#Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 1,000,000 km² less the 2010s mean • about 1,910,000 km² less the 2000s mean • about 2,700,000 km² less the 1990s mean • about 3,500,000 km² less the 1980s mean More plots: sites.uci.edu/zlabe/arctic-s…

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Today marks 16 weekdays in a row with the US > 1,000 covid deaths. The USA ranks #9 in the world for deaths/million people, the only industrialized nation on the list 1. Kosovo 2. Peru 3. Bolivia 4. Mexico 5. Panama 6. Brazil 7. Montenegro 8. Bosnia

The new Eurostat numbers say that Sweden and Denmark have had identical economic performance: ~8% GDP decline over past year. So all Sweden got from its herd immunity strategy was a bunch of dead Swedes ec.europa.eu/eurostat/docum…

NOTHING QUITE LIKE CHOKING ON THE AIR UNDER A BLOOD RED SKY TO GET YOU EXCITED ABOUT GRADUAL, MARKET-BASED SOLUTIONS TO CLIMATE CHANGE

Losses of #Arctic sea ice are occurring in all months of the year. More info: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108… Decadal trends are calculated for the 1979-2019/2020 satellite-era period.

Breaking News! Code UFB! The latest global surface temperature data point on Feb. 8 from ERA5 once again put the planet 2.0°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC baseline, at 2.01°C. The only other times this has happened were Nov. 17, 2023 (2.05°C) and Nov. 18, 2023 (2.06°C).