ADAM TOOZE

Is there data on how many medical staff/vents etc were mobilized by China from OUTSIDE Wuhan/Hubei to meet the surg… https://t.co/yYUyAWqpdM

"If a country can hunt ppl to the ends of the earth w GPS guided drones, it can contain an outbreak “ True… https://t.co/gbGeuAUnSB

"Xi's speech on CCP's war-effort to contain virus is a world-historical document.” This is fantastic. Why doesn’t… https://t.co/2Mal6OBokb

@adam_tooze @MacaesBruno A detail that people keep overlooking. "the typical supplier is producing custom parts fo… https://t.co/8ztU7izAfs

Vent not equals vent: This classification of ventilator types from the US census of 2010 is illuminating… https://t.co/e5lGyhipt8

As the sparring btw Trump and Beijing escalates, it is worth remembering this earlier phase of the outbreak when vi… https://t.co/lbXVuxpgb1

Association of British Insurers statement. To be honest I think the insurance debate of the last 24 hours is a re… https://t.co/g9mGearqpV

Turkey experienced a dramatic sudden stop in Aug 2018. What followed was a sharp drop in GDP, the current account d… https://t.co/HL9ylz1n4A

Mexico is on frontline of EM sell off, hit both by fear and slump in oil. A while back there was worrying talk abou… https://t.co/MJ6juCpHc2

Im just catching up with @70sBachchan mega-thread on corona. As is true for his threads on climate, this one is a t… https://t.co/BonoLnFHJ5

UK has only 5000 ventilators & no national production capacity. Fascinating but horrifying article on how Johnson g… https://t.co/OI7j8GqkO9

According to a 2010 census of hospital equipment, this is how ventilators were distributed across the US.… https://t.co/3S7NsUELIf

Eek https://t.co/nh1XyV5I9e

How will scarce ventilators be allocated over weeks to come? Presumably what happens in ICU stays in ICU, but these… https://t.co/52QgBeLGWE

Cambridge researchers tested if wearing 2 layers of homemade masks improved filtration. For a dish cloth / tea towe… https://t.co/8jlFhmZ9Hc

@RCownie Im talking about stockpiling. I understand that for this pandemic the die is already cast.

What would it cost to buy 50,000? Av machine might cost $25k in normal times. Top of line ICU unit $50k -> cost of… https://t.co/tc7JxZH9be

Worldwide production capacity for medical ventilators is in the range of 40,000 to 50,000 units pa and not all of t… https://t.co/oLqnsjLd2v

How much to spend? Spend it now, or wait until we know duration of epidemic? How will bond market react? Spain’s le… https://t.co/KjQHXDxzlC

‘The Last Day of Pompeii’, the 19th-century painting by Karl Bryullov in the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersbu… https://t.co/aVYIhu7KKj

This is the specter in financial markets this morning. This is a measure of the intense credit squeeze. https://t.co/NhlQcZ8MZ8

Chesapeake Energy, high-debt pioneer of US shale energy industry is entering restructuring. Amazon is hiring 100k… https://t.co/DIbhc75hm9

The impact in China of corona both on CO2 and pollution was dramatic. The global effect will be even more so. https://t.co/tbJq2gD9Bg

Chesapeake Energy, high-debt pioneer of US shale energy industry is entering restructuring. Amazon is hiring 100k… https://t.co/bkHZwCKnsP

Social distancing basically confers a quasi public policy role on remote delivery-based businesses like Amazon. Sho… https://t.co/M3bvRTgWcW

This is a measure of the intense credit squeeze that the Fed and other central banks have so far failed to alleviat… https://t.co/UKgFvmzUkW

Surely @jacobinmag of all outlets cannot imagine that “post-truth” era either began with Trump or will end with him… https://t.co/GlYhZOhBI4

@RebelLawProf Excellent news.

Live footage from Florida beaches this spring break. Many of these are kids whose College has just closed for the y… https://t.co/uORT23md0m

The cast of German Big Brother have not been told about corona … how do we break the news to them that we are all

Goodbye Lenin for real … https://t.co/njoOey2crv

Coronavirus: Spain nationalises all private hospitals https://t.co/8FtnXQ0ywq

HM The Queen may have sent her first email in 1976, but as I'm not on the ARPANET my online activities are rather l… https://t.co/rXPURlRJgA

Carbon paper. A blast from the past … it always used to seem like magic! https://t.co/Q1rJwEp8mm

Read this fantastic blogpost from @GeneralTheorist on the glaring holes in eurozone crisis response that were expos… https://t.co/CiAClrdWVY