Economists need to be banned from writing about this stuff. They can’t handle it responsibly!
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Here's a good explainer by
@PeterKolchinsky about why flu-like mutation is not an issue for coronaviruses, and it's likely any vaccine we can create will work for a long time. https://www.city-journal.org/coronavirus-vaccine …pic.twitter.com/UhQeyxqxWh
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Kolchinsky also wrote this excellent explainer about why we don't have a vaccine for the common cold. It has nothing to do with evil viruses mutating faster than we can fight them. It's largely an issue of economics!https://www.city-journal.org/covid-19-our-attitude-toward-vaccines …
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When this crisis is over, I can't wait to retweet contrarian virologists' explosive takes on liquidity traps and modern monetary theory
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It’s wrong in so many ways including the Lamarckian evolution but which even non-virologists should cringe at
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Oh no, an expert is tweeting! :) As long as I'm here, is there any chance the ACE2 blocker I was already taking for high blood pressure will block the virus from hooking the receptor? Asking for my black friends dying all out of proportion...
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