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Bill Maher: "If we are ever going to get back to the old America, that's got to be the Democrats' part of the bargain… You can’t just say sh*t! Math is racist. Queers for Palestine. Looting is cool. Healthy at any weight…"

Out today for #ESMO23: In a large multi-cancer cohort, a single liquid biopsy assay enables the detection of four epigenomic modifications, allowing the monitoring of expression of potential drug targets and resistance genes @SylvanBacaLab @DrChoueiri nature.com/articles/s4159…

@DrTomFrieden What’s the source for these graphs?

Mobility and mixing were the major drivers of both the increase and decrease. Herd immunity isn’t an on-off switch; increased immunity accelerates decreases in cases. Herd immunity also isn’t uniform across society. There are still plenty of susceptible people – most of us. 3/14

Covid Epi Weekly: Safer Doesn’t Mean Safe (yet) Cases continue to plummet. Vaccination roll-out is going more smoothly, tho must address equity much more effectively. Deaths are decreasing. Global collaboration is increasing. Spring, not Covid, is increasingly in the air. 1/14

@DrSidMukherjee Apparently Liguria and Lombardy at 15 percent Ab+, so 15-25 seems about right

What do you think the seroprevalence rate is in NYC ? Any guesses ?

Never forget. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@Facebook @Google @Apple - wouldn’t it be relatively simple to get a COVID19 contact tracing functionality up and running for all users of your apps/phones that we opt into?

How Canada works: - Family owns chocolate factory in Syria - Factory gets bombed - They lose everything - Canadians sponsor them - They move to town of 4,000 people - Dad starts making chocolate in basement - Word spreads They now make 250,000 pieces of chocolate a month 🇨🇦

More and more Americans are viewing immigration positively. At 60% decade ago. Now at 75%. From here: nytimes.com/2018/06/23/us/…

#Immigrants account for some 57% of scientists residing in Switzerland, 45% in Australia, and 38% in the US voxeu.org/article/global…

Smoking responsible for more U.S. deaths per year than AIDS, alcohol and illegal drugs, car accidents, murders, and suicides combined - NEJM