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15 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
"AAAS, which publishes..Science.., announced..it will offer..authors a free way..[to make] publications..free to read. Under..policy, authors may deposit..peer-reviewed..papers accepted by paywalled Science titles in public..online repositories."

sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/s…
This is the only rational and responsible path forward in scientific publishing
But, unfortunately: "For now, Science’s approach, known as green open access, will apply only to authors of papers funded by Coalition S, a group of mostly European funders and foundations behind an open access mandate that takes effect this month."
And these assertions are false:

"[T]he near-final version..typically lacks some useful parts..contained in..final version, such as supplementary materials. And posting the near-final versions can make it more difficult to ensure the integrity of the scientific record"

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15 Jan
"The world needs an inquiry that considers not just natural origins but the possibility that SARS-CoV-2.. escaped from a laboratory. The WHO team, however, plans to build on reports by Chinese scientists rather than mount an independent investigation."

wsj.com/articles/the-w…
"Outbreak occurred on..doorstep of laboratories that conduct the world’s largest research project on..bat viruses, that have the world’s largest collection of..bat viruses, and that possessed and worked with the world’s closest sequenced relative of the outbreak virus."
"The laboratories actively searched for new horseshoe-bat viruses in..bat colonies in caves in remote rural areas in Yunnan province, brought those new..bat viruses to Wuhan, and then mass-produced and studied those new..bat viruses, year-round, inside Wuhan."
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15 Jan
"When HHS Secretary..Azar announced this week that the federal government would begin releasing coronavirus vaccine doses held in reserve for second shots, no such reserve existed, according to state and federal officials briefed on distribution plans."

washingtonpost.com/health/2021/01…
"Now, health officials across the country who had anticipated their extremely limited vaccine supply as much as doubling beginning next week are confronting the reality that their allocations will not immediately increase, dashing hopes of dramatically expanding eligibility fo"
"Health officials in some cities and states were informed in recent days about the reality of the situation, while others are still in the dark."
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15 Jan
"A video released two years before the start of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic shows Wuhan Insitute of Virology..scientists being cavalier toward protective equipment and being bitten by bats.., demonstrating a lax safety culture"

taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4102619
"On Dec. 29, 2017, Chinese state-run TV released a video designed to showcase Shi Zhengli..and her team..in their quest to find the origin of SARS..[T]he scientists..show a shocking disregard for safety when handling potentially infectious bats both in the wild and in the lab."
"From 4:45 to 4:56, a scientist can be seen holding a bat with his bare hands. Team members from 7:44 to 7:50 can be seen collecting potentially highly infectious bat feces while wearing short sleeves and shorts and with no noticeable..PPE..other than gloves."
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12 Jan
"I am angry that after..months..isolating..a single chaotic day..got me sick. I am angry..our nation’s leaders were unwilling to..mask..I am angry..attack on..Capitol and my..illness have..same cause:..Republican colleagues’ inability to accept facts."

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
"I was nervous about spending a week among so many people who regularly flout social distancing and mask guidelines, but I could not have imagined the horror of what happened on Jan. 6."
"[W]e were not safe from the callousness of members of Congress who, having encouraged the sentiments that inspired the riot, now ignored requests to wear masks."
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19 Aug 20
"Even as reality continues to intrude,..Trump has either largely dismissed or ignored his science and medical advisers. And the result is that the economy, the one thing he seems to care most about..has been devastated."

nytimes.com/2020/08/18/opi…
"Among developed nations,..US ranks first in categories one would prefer to be last in: number of cases and number of deaths. It lags well behind in economic recovery as well."

"Containing the virus has allowed many European economies to recover far better than the US"
""In..April..business in restaurants in Germany and..US were in the identical place, down over 90%.,Since then they have diverged..widely: data for Aug. 16..shows German restaurants enjoyed 9% more business than last year..while US restaurants were down around 50%"
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19 Aug 20
"COVID has reduced to tatters the illusion of American exceptionalism. At the height of the crisis, with..2,000 dying each day, Americans found themselves members of a failed state, ruled by a dysfunctional..government"

rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
"COVID-19 didn’t lay America low; it simply revealed what had long been forsaken. As the crisis unfolded, with another American dying every minute of every day, a country that once turned out fighter planes by the hour could not manage to produce the paper masks or cotton swabs"
"The nation that defeated smallpox and polio, and led..world for generations in medical innovation and discovery, was reduced to..laughing stock as..buffoon of..president advocated..use of household disinfectants as..treatment for..disease..he could not begin to understand."
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