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Omicron raises an urgent math problem for epi world & @CDCgov–
Solve for X:
For vaxxed person w/ Omicron, "X"=minimum # of days of isolation that optimizes limiting spread & keeping economy going, assuming rapid test is neg on days X-1 & X.
(Hint: I doubt it's 7-10; my guess ~5)
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What the heck is this, Google? An alert to let me know when to watch The Sound of Music on TV?
I live in the future, bud. I can watch the sound of music whenever I want. This is like an alert from an alternate universe where Google existed in the 1960s
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My $1.75 T plan:
Full CTC with permanent TCJA provisions (per JFI): $535 billion
Full climate plan: $550 billion
Medicaid gap fix: $180 billion
Long term care: $200 billion
Spend the remaining $285 billion on whatever combo on childcare/SALT/deficit reduction gets it passed
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It's almost as though we might have learned something from what all the South African epidemiologists and doctors were telling us three weeks ago!
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Prof Francois Balloux @BallouxFrancois
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Smart poor kids; No, thanks 🤮
Dumb rich kids: Yes, please 😍
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Sergey Egiev @SEgiev
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Maybe even more hopeful than the win by a leftist candidate is that the far right candidate (who has said nice things about Bolsonaro and Trump) actually accepted the electoral outcome and congratulated the winner...on Twitter!
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AFP News Agency @AFP
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In China, the real estate carnage continues
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Bloomberg Next China @next_china
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The single best policy for another American Century is to roll out the red carpet for 100 million of the most talented immigrants in the world.
Talent is evenly distributed; it is one of the great own goals of all time that so much of it wants to be the US and we say no.
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Maybe a NYC thing but I know a lot of folks who got COVID in spring 2020...
That aside, part of the adjustment IMO is that the vaccines were *so* effective at first that people were able to delay confronting the fact that COVID was a risk they had to manage like any other.
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Daniel W. Drezner @dandrezner