It was such great fun to facilitate this panel of very inspiring ladies!! Thank you for such a great chat Lingjing Emily Sappington and Nora Pincus!

Here’s a video where I explain why we’re using log scales, showing absolute numbers instead of per capita, and much more: x.com/janinegibson/s…

This is the chart I have been waiting to see. A holistic impact of the pandemic - both for unreported covid deaths & impact of (not) treating all other health issues.

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People involved in social change are particularly vulnerable to burnout & depression: excellent piece surfacing what otherwise only gets talked about in private and late at night.

NEW: long overdue, I’ve updated our excess deaths data, expanding the list of countries to 30 We have tracked 1.5 million excess deaths so far, considerably more than the 960k attributed to Covid-19 in the same countries over same period. Free to read: ft.com/coronavirus-la…

NEW: a common response to reports of hospitals struggling this winter is "it’s no different to a bad flu season!" I’ve tracked down historical data on flu ICU admissions, including winter 2017-18, a record high. Here’s how England’s Covid winter compares to a bad flu season 📹

Pfizer's move is indefensible. Yes, squeeze every dose we can. But cutting deliveries from 40M to 33M vials for the same price cannot be justified. Especially when many places lack the special "low dead space" syringes needed to get the "extra" dose. nytimes.com/2021/01/22/hea…

War is reshaping our world, but so too is the climate emergency, writes Naomi Klein. The question is: Will we harness wartime levels of urgency and action to catalyze climate action or will we allow war to add more fuel to a planet already on fire? interc.pt/36XxM5h

If you call for anything short of military escalation in response to Putin's illegal + outrageous invasion, you will be accused of all kinds of treachery and reported to Twitter. Don't let it shut you up. Only people power and diplomacy will save lives. Think, don't hero worship.

Imagine a plurality of publics & actors of state: working for an emergent coherence & coordination, operating with dynamic divergence & convergence & a multiplicity of legitimacy frameworks in creative tension. Moving us from a pyramidal state to the state a as movement of agents

NEW: income inequality in US & UK is so wide that while the richest are very well off, the poorest have a worse standard of living than the poorest in countries like Slovenia ft.com/content/ef2654… Essentially, US & UK are poor societies with some very rich people. A thread: