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12 Oct, 5 tweets, 4 min read
THREAD: Our #COVID19 surge tracker shows that cases are now rising again across most of the nation, including the northeast. (Gray means very few cases or less than 5% change in last two weeks).
buzzfeednews.com/article/petera…
2/ This chart shows daily case numbers for the US as a whole. The current surge isn't really a "third wave" because #COVID19 transmission never went down to low levels like it did in European countries now experiencing a genuine second wave.
buzzfeednews.com/article/petera…
3/ This animation helps reveal why the US never got things under control: Hotspots of #COVID19 transmission have moved from place to place over time.
buzzfeednews.com/article/petera…
4/ It's important to keep the current surge in the northeast in perspective. It's concerning, but nothing like the terrible situation in March and April. Some key metrics from New York State:
5/ Here's the chart of daily recorded deaths across the nation, currently holding steady at around 750 a day. So far, more than 214,000 #COVID19 deaths have been recorded in the US.
buzzfeednews.com/article/petera…

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THREAD: #BlackLivesMatter protests have not led to clear spikes in #COVID19 transmission. What does that mean?
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11 Dec 19
THREAD: I've been reporting on DNA testing and scrutinizing my own genome for more than 10 years. Here's an end-of-decade perspective
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After 23andMe, deCODE, and Navigenics burst on the scene with genome scans for health risks, many experts were skeptical of the value of their reports
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In this story on Jeffrey Epstein's close ties to John Brockman's Edge Foundation, I called @edge a "boys club." Thread with some context on that, starting with the Twitter account 1/
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@edge 2/ Recent media from John Brockman's @edge account. All of these things are like the others.
@edge 3/ ~80% at edge.org/people are men. But it's a legacy list, maybe diversity has increased recently? Not judging from tweets in June this year, when Brockman shared contributors' suggestions for a final @edge question
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