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VENT: This really grinds my gears: when other scientists stay silent on #BlackLivesMatter, especially other public health scientists with newly big followings. Racial injustice deaths are public health issues. Twitter is about advocacy not just sharing ur COVID stuff. </endvent>
2) African Americans are also at many fold higher risk of COVID mortality. African Americans are infected more because they often work in low wage front line work and often live in low income housing. Racial injustice is heart of this epidemic and inextricably linked.
3) So fellow scientists, other than a mere retweet of a news outlet or tut-tutting about masks alone, please stop just sitting on the damn sidelines afraid to step out of your lane. America needs your voice! (Ht to @AbraarKaran).
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Thread 🧵on how China kept WHO in the dark. It’s starting to emerge what really happened in Jan, via AP investigation.

Chinese officials failed to share the virus genome for >1week after decoding it and failed to reveal 🦠 had H2H for a further 2 weeks. apnews.com/fed0f89a3b46cf…
2) The AP has found rather than colluding w/ China, WHO was itself largely kept in the dark, as China gave it only minimal info. The new info does not support the narrative of either US or China, but portrays an agency stuck in the middle urgently trying to solicit more data.
3) “We’re currently at the stage where yes, they’re giving it to us 15 minutes before it appears on CCTV,” said WHO’s top official in China, Dr. Gauden Galea, referring to the state-owned China Central Television, in one meeting.
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Huge - Arlington VA police department has withdrawn all its officers from across the river in Washington DC. At the direction of Arlington County Board, Arlington PD will not continue aiding the National Guard and DC police.
2) “The County is re-evaluating the agreements that allowed our officers to be put in a compromising position that endangered their health and safety, and that of the people around them, for a purpose not worthy of our mutual aid obligations.” Wow.
3) I’ve never been so proud of Arlington as tonight. (For those not familiar with Arlington, it use to be Southwest half of the District of Columbia diamond-shaped land grant. As former part of DC, it later retroceded back to Virginia in 1846. Arlington is home to the Pentagon).
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Huge: Basically Trump FDA knew little to nothing about HCQ safety and the quality of the HCQ made overseas. FOIA memos show they approved it on political pressure. This seriously harms the reputation of the FDA when it’s abused like this. (Ht @JasonLeopold). #COVID19
2) “FDA documents, released publicly now for the first time, outlined what data the agency used to make the hot-button decision to allow widespread use of the drugs.

The EUA review, conducted by six FDA officials, referred to only two studies of the malaria drugs...”
3) “which either showed negligible results or have since been called into question altogether. At its center was a controversial French study that claimed that it, combined w/ an antibiotic, was very effective. That study has since been retracted cuz of numerous problems’’
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