Once again proving among the world's most innovative nations, South Korea has created a drive-thru coronavirus clinic.. pic.twitter.com/7eUQYKbWW5— Sam Kim (@samkimasia) February 26, 2020
A Slack group, The Wu-han Clan, is just one example of how the COVID-19 outbreak is transforming how scientists communicate about fast-moving health crises, making ample use of preprint servers and social media to quickly share information. https://t.co/wzK1l6aO8Y— ScienceInsider (@ScienceInsider) February 26, 2020
The saddest part of this now-nearing 3 months of quarantine is that the festive holiday decorations can't be taken down because too few migrant workers are even allowed back in Beijing yet. https://t.co/f8tQM0oO1h— RF Parsley (@sanverde) February 25, 2020
Yes, this is real. It took place yesterday in Tbilisi, Georgia.— Emmanuelle Saliba 🧐 (@_esaliba) February 27, 2020
He's an Iranian citizen who tested negative for the virus but had to undergo mandatory quarantine. He broke out of the hospital and nurses had to bring him back in.
The original clip -> https://t.co/yzJjDlMDxz https://t.co/GUhX8MITrz
JUST IN: Saudi Arabia has suspended pilgrimages to Mecca and Medina for people outside the country over novel coronavirus fears. A wholesale temporary ban on foreign visits to the holy sites is a first in living memory. https://t.co/BHLnLMFgm0 pic.twitter.com/lbwpeeyaNK— CNN International (@cnni) February 27, 2020
BREAKING: Elizabeth Warren just introduced a bill that would defund Trump’s border wall and direct the money toward the coronavirus response in the U.S.— PoliticsVideoChannel (@politvidchannel) February 27, 2020
We’re really sad to announce that Plague Inc. has been removed from the China App Store. This is completely out of our control and we are working to find a way to bring the game back to our players in China. Our statement here: https://t.co/oYkHHkMbgw pic.twitter.com/5wQ93NsCKw— Plague Inc. / Rebel Inc. (@NdemicCreations) February 27, 2020
Thread. There’s a lot to be written about how last fall’s collapse of Shanghai’s Web International English, which had tens of thousands of students around China, and this year’s Spring Festival coronavirus outbreak likely mean the end of training centers as we know them in China.— Matthew Stinson (@stinson) February 27, 2020
A SOMEWHAT DYSTOPIAN SCOOP: Amazon is trying to prevent third-party sellers from raising the price of face masks to exorbitant levels https://t.co/GeZ8DSvf3f— Louise Matsakis (@lmatsakis) February 25, 2020
In other plague-related news:
Very late to this—one year late to this—but it boggles the mind that in the 16th cent, the population of the Americas went from 60 million to 5-6 million, cultivated land the size of France was abandoned, and the resulting reforestation cooled the climate. https://t.co/CSkURxaHTh— Kanishk Tharoor (@kanishktharoor) February 27, 2020
The 1924 bubonic outbreak in Los Angeles. Not one of our more honorable moments. pic.twitter.com/xsMxPXG8Bk— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) February 27, 2020
So in sum, this scientist noted the safety inspection procedures were lax. A year later those lax procedures led to a possible discharge of pathogens from a government lab. No greater crime in the eyes of authority than foresight. https://t.co/WZqxIjgoRy— Robert Zacny (@RobZacny) February 27, 2020
