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Words are inadequate to describe the US response to #COVIDー19 , but we'll start with appalling & heartbreaking. @HelenBranswell & I asked smart people how to do better next time; our thanks to @cmyeaton, @mlipsitch, @AmeshAA & others who offered ideas: https://t.co/qdrafJlhUD

— sharon begley (@sxbegle) June 5, 2020

Racism kills. Protesters are standing up against it in spite of COVID-19.

Nancy Krieger, Mary Bassett, and I wrote this piece rejecting the false equivalence with the anti-lockdown protests.

Black lives matter. https://t.co/5Z6yYXAnNI

— Caroline Buckee (@Caroline_OF_B) June 5, 2020

How did Operation Warp Speed whittle its COVID-19 vaccine list to 5? Why these 5? Who knows. Even many scientists at the front of the U.S. effort to develop COVID-19 vaccines are out of the loop. So much for HHS's promised "radical transparency."https://t.co/g3kV10TRVp pic.twitter.com/tJv2TAEX9w

— Jon Cohen (@sciencecohen) June 5, 2020

🚨I wrote about COVID-19 long-haulers—the thousands of people who’ve been struggling with *months* of debilitating symptoms. Many have faced disbelief from friends and medical professionals because they don’t fit the typical profile of the disease. 1/ https://t.co/EvIOcwve0x

— Ed Yong (@edyong209) June 4, 2020

The RECOVERY randomised clinical trial looks sound to me. The absence of any meaningful benefit for hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of #COVID19 is in line with other comparable studies.https://t.co/9XzyJgT3is

— Prof Francois Balloux (@BallouxFrancois) June 5, 2020

Breaking - First major research scandal of COVID-19 era is a very painful one for all kinds of reasons: Two elite medical journals retract coronavirus papers over data integrity questions - my story: https://t.co/gimc5ukL23

— Charles Piller (@cpiller) June 4, 2020