🧵As many of you know, last year I developed #LongCovid with severe fatigue, which disrupted my life for many months. I’ve been debating whether to share the story of how I recovered from it, and am doing so now in case this is helpful to anyone else. /1 Short version: after months of LC fatigue, I received 2 doses of the vaccine against Japanese encephalitis, for reasons unrelated to covid. I felt my energy levels go from perhaps 20% of normal to 90% within a day of the 2nd dose. That improvement has persisted ever since /2

Just finished reading the Azimio and Kenya Kwanza manifestos (the real KK one this time!). My main takeaway was how similar their overall visions are, mainly differing in details. A 🧵: Here's the Azimio manifesto (azimio.ke/manifesto-engl…), and here's KK (uda.ke/downloads/mani…)

Thread: I've got a new piece out at @africaarguments talking about how public markets and cash transfers can mitigate the economic effects of coronavirus in Africa. It rounds up research from a lot of smart people on these issues. /1 africanarguments.org/2020/04/02/afr… Over the last few weeks, I kept seeing articles saying "Africa can't replicate Europe's coronavirus response" without clearly specifying what should be done differently. I did a lot of reading about those options might be, for economic and public health response /2

I realized that I didn't know very much about how previous flu-like pandemics have spread in Africa. So I looked up a bunch of maps! Blog post here, thread to follow. (N.B. not an epidemiologist, not making claims about how COVID-19 might spread) /1 rachelstrohm.com/2020/03/14/wha… I started w/ Wikipedia's list of flu pandemics, added SARS and seasonal flu. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza… The three post-2000 pandemics are coronavirus (2020), H1N1 / swine flu (2009), SARS (2003). /2

I feel like a lot of foreign correspondents in Kenya are missing the point of the critique of the @nytimes over the #RiversideAttack photos. /1 The majority of the tweets I’ve seen about this from #KOT have essentially said “please take down the photo of brutally murdered black people, esp since you wouldn’t show an equivalent photo if they were white.” /2