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Foreshadowing ‘canary in coal mine’ signal: Texas is now desperately trying to pull doctors out of retirement to handle the coronavirus caseload. Where else pulled this emergency lever? Lombardy, Italy 🇮🇹.

Texas also set a record #COVID19 deaths today.
tmb.state.tx.us/page/coronavir…
2) Here is the link to Texas’s reactivation renewals of expired medical licenses for retired physicians: tmb.state.tx.us/page/renewal-p…
3) And yes, this is a very risky proposition to ask high risk elderly doctors to return to service during Covid. Hopefully there is enough PPEs for them or they will serve in less high risk roles.
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Rise of the machines. Boston Dynamics robot does a gymnastics 🤸‍♂️ routine.
2) I too share a lot of concerns about the robots, not because I dislike technology, but I worry about the enormous power that political leaders could have to crack down on dissent using a “robocop” police force or army, and the subjective nature of how robots programmed.
3) We must be vigilant to avoid any future with a “Skynet” apocalypse(from Terminator) or even to avoid a milder form of robot police state controlled by a few unethical human powers. If you think police Dept are sometimes inhumane now... just u wait.
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WHO airborne reversal- NYT piece w/ more color. Some experts have criticized WHO for being slow to acknowledge possibility of airborne spread while emphasizing hand washing as primary preventive strategy. Many scientists are not happy 🧵 (HT @apoorva_nyc)
nytimes.com/2020/07/09/hea…
2) “Even in the new brief, it’s clear that members of the committee interpreted the evidence differently, said Dr. @trishgreenhalgh, a professor at Oxford.
“The push-pull of that committee is palpable. As everyone knows, if you ask a committee to design a horse, you get a camel.”
3) “Airborne transmission is the most likely explanation for several clusters of infection, including a choir in Washington State and a restaurant in China, according to some scientists. But WHO staff members have yet to accept the importance of these case studies...”
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Breaking REVERSAL: @WHO has formally recognized that #COVID19 can be transmitted indoors by droplets in the AIR: people in crowded settings with poor ventilation run risk of being infected by the coronavirus as the droplets circulate via the air indoors.🧵
thehill.com/policy/healthc…
2) The admission comes after a crush of criticism from experts pushing the organization to update its description of the virus's spread to include the possibility of airborne infections.
3) WHO now acknowledges that transmissions via aerosols, or tiny air droplets, could have been behind "outbreaks of COVID-19 reported in some closed settings, such as restaurants, nightclubs, places of worship or places of work where people may be shouting, talking, or singing."
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