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Visiting the USA from South Korea and let me ask you WHERE ARE YOUR MASKS? Holy moly. Death wish nation.
This Tweet struck a chord. If you are interested in conversations with pandemic experts from around the world please check out my #COVIDCalls project. Covid-calls.com
Hello to new followers--I hope you will check out the #COVIDCalls archive--501 episodes of pandemic conversation with everyone from epidemiologists to poets to nurses to sanitation workers. A few of my favorite episodes, starting with @PCH_SF 6.18.2020
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Sigh.
Everything old is new again.
Everything old is new again.
*stares in the entire body of emergency management research* 
This all was of course best summarized by Dr. Tierney on #COVIDCalls many many months ago.
The injustice & violence suffered by Asian Americans in the pandemic is a major theme of #COVIDCalls. Here are some episodes that might serve as an explainer, & will introduce you to some brilliant researchers/activists. Starting w/@vgshaw & @_sujanee
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2. Episode #167 covers ANTI-CHINESE STIGMA IN THE PANDEMIC outside the USA w/@NjokiMwarumba & @JackRozdilsky
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3. The Auntie Sewing Squad was created by @mskristinawong—you can learn all about it in this #COVIDCalls episode w/Preeti Sharma and Chrissy Yee Lau.
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This fight between Trump and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer offers insight into how Trump uses disaster as a partisan tool, and in this case as a re-election strategy.
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2. As of now 12 states have received major disaster declarations for COVID-19 and there will be more on the way. Michigan will certainly be among them. You can follow the declarations for yourself here on the (very bad) @fema website. fema.gov/disasters
3. So what's happening with Trump and Whitmer? If you aren't familiar with the disaster declaration process just carve out an hour and read the Stafford Act OR you could take a short-cut and just read Title IV.
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Right on. Let’s talk about the history and chemistry of chloroquine and quinine. This will be a longish thread -- I promise payoff including one staggering "oops" and some tentative reflections about how all this relates to what's going on right now. 1/
So, as you have presumably heard, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are the "decades-old antimalarial drugs" that have been getting lots of hype over the past few days as prospective covid-19 therapeutics. 2/
Most of this discussion explains it along the lines of this WSJ article: "Chloroquine is a synthetic form of quinine, a centuries-old compound for malaria that is found in small amounts in products such as tonic water."
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