2/ The investigative journalists of the quoted tweet outlet claim that they have emails showing that Tedros knew about it.
3/ The covered report, between others, claims that deaths were underestimated and that the central command-and-control was slow and led to blind spots.
Nothing new – but the news would the involvement of WHO officials in the cover-up.
4/ Interestingly, the report brings the attention on the fact that the pandemic preparedness plan on the Ministry of Health's website is dated 2006, as if we didn't update our plans after Ebola.
However,
5/ Yesterday's Report shows an email by a WHO official pointing out that the report got updated in 2016. However, the file uploaded in 2016 is a copy of the 2006 one.
(What are we paying these people for?)
6/ For the Italian speakers, here's more on the content of the emails.
I'm against mandatory vaccination for vaccines without long-term studies, but as many countries are talking about mandatory vaccination, a few considerations.
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1/ There are not enough doses to mandate vaccination for everyone in a country, not in 2021.
Therefore, countries that do decide to mandate vaccination will have to prioritize, and only mandate it for some categories of people.
How to prioritize?
2/ We vaccinate individuals for two reason. To protect them, and to protect their contacts.
As a government, it only makes sense to enforce the latter.
Probably, 20% of the tweets you read deliver 80% of the value of using Twitter.
You'd be a fool not to prioritize your feed.
Here's how I do it.
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2/ First of all, I set up a Twitter List of the 20 accounts from which I get the most value, and I pin it to my Twitter app.
This is my default feed. Because there are few accounts, I can find the time to read all their tweets even on busy days.
For the rest…
3/ For the rest, I use an app called Mailbrew
I created a digest w/ "news" that gets delivered every morning in my inbox. Because it only shows the top 3 tweets by account, it ensures I only read the best
2/ As a general principle, solving the symptom of a problem without solving the underlying causes is a terrible idea. It removes the urgency to solve the problem once and for all, making it grow larger.
3/ One question worth asking is, why is student debt not a problem in Europe?
The naive answer: government subsidies to students.
The real answer: contained costs.
The total operational costs for my ex-university in 2018 were "just" $7.8k / student / year.
3/ If we order the 21 parameters by descending predictive power, and apply it to the data used to build the model, we discover that:
- The first parameter alone predicts the outcome of many regions.
- The last parameter, at most, helps predicting the outcome of a single region.
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(and announcing my new newsletter 🎉)
Too much noise, too little content we actually use.
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Me neither. But I have a solution
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