WHO official seems involved in a cover-up of a report of the Italian failures in fighting COVID.

The WHO seems to have preferred saving the reputation of the Italian over circulating information that could have saved lives.

(thread, 1/N)
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. Image
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.

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ON MANDATORY VACCINATION

I'm against mandatory vaccination for vaccines without long-term studies, but as many countries are talking about mandatory vaccination, a few considerations.

(thread)
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.
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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.

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ON STUDENT DEBT
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1/ The worst possible outcome is forgiving student debt without changing the structural problems that led to this situation.

This would only make tuitions higher & reduce access to higher education, as described below.



[1/9]
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.
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Italy assigned to each region a COVID risk level based on a complex model with 21 parameters.

Many experts claimed that the more parameters, the more precise the model.

Is it true, though?

(1/6)
2/ In most real-world cases, more parameters lead to worse predictions.

See the example below (from my gum.co/heuristic) ImageImageImage
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- The last parameter, at most, helps predicting the outcome of a single region.
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THE FUTURE OF NEWSLETTERS
(and announcing my new newsletter 🎉)

Too much noise, too little content we actually use.

Take your favorite newsletter. Can you remember the contents of the edition-before-the-last-one?

Me neither. But I have a solution

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2/ Today, I launch the RoamLetter.

A newsletter whose content directly integrates into your note-taking system.

A newsletter whose editions AUTOMATICALLY link with each other *and with your notes* 👏

A newsletter with built-in spaced repetition.

A timeless newsletter.
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If you are not a Roam user, no worries. You can still use all the other features of my newsletter (pics below)
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Their pages are like Wikipedia pages – they contain links for optional deeper exploration.

Moreover, at the bottom of each page, there is an automatic list of references.
3/ Roam books are still books – they still have a table of content that guides you through your journey of discovery.

However, you can stray off the path or take shortcuts as you please.
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