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When swine flu hit Mexico in 2009, CDC did not learn about the outbreak until six days after the Mexican government… https://t.co/K6hbM9ICNv

4. Again, the NY Fed isn't giving $1.5 trillion to anyone. It is lending money overnight, collateralised by governm… https://t.co/bhbhDdf9zQ

Workers in Italy striking in support of demand to close luxury clothing production as inessential and a public heal… https://t.co/bEWWiagHnb

"swine flu, may prove that WHO/CDC version of pandemic preparedness—w/o massive inv in surveillance, scientific &… https://t.co/L6KXveZqNY

This tweet is still up. https://t.co/M6Rf13FTwI

What policy will provide relief to: a. A waiter who is losing most of his tips b. A Lyft driver who is losing many… https://t.co/wi1TuVOWpR

Washington Post’s West Africa bureau chief 👇🏼 Senegal is testing people and giving results within 4 hours. Seneg… https://t.co/sibAeFziws

A couple of key takeaways from our analysis of early COVID-19 dynamics in Wuhan: 1. We estimated that the control… https://t.co/hjozJfOrWv

"We will lose our colleagues, we will be burying our colleagues." Dr Jenny Vaughan from The Doctors' Association s… https://t.co/Pv9vdqj8f5

The market reaction to Lagarde's unfortunate comment reveals an uncomfortable truth. The euroarea has wasted a deca… https://t.co/Awb2wd2F6N

"capitalist globalization now appears to be biologically unsustainable in the absence of a truly international publ… https://t.co/H37Q8Rdt6r

The easy, widespread availability of Covid-19 tests for celebrities and other rich and well-connected people in the… https://t.co/vIcXuUqIZk

My brilliant Syrian student was reading The Waste Land from her Damascus University poetry course pack in class tod… https://t.co/H5UNuet9nX

The monster is finally at the door. Mike Davis – yes City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts Davis – is as unspar… https://t.co/PeuyZVDEwm

Lagarde screwed up today, no doubt anxious about the Bundesbank reaction. But this thread is essential to understan… https://t.co/imxEdIxe53

"one of its first victims has been the consoling faith, long preached in the pews of the WH), that pandemics can be… https://t.co/euxjbRlluF

@doug_boh Yup ….

I DID NOT KNOW that the great Mike Davis had written a book about Avian Flu. Essential reading for quarantine and f… https://t.co/IHbj8SiQUc

“We live in a world where 40% of Americans cannot even afford a $400 unexpected expense. We live in a world where 3… https://t.co/5rbYgqtVUN

Hahaha love #WhateverTheF ! But on substance: 1) this is an outrageous mistake from Lagarde and a stain on her alre… https://t.co/7tD15Cw9Vq

Absolutely right. The financial markets of the AE have been rocked by shocks. But as @RobinBrooksIIF has highlighte… https://t.co/Izu32pT0hf

The monster is finally at the door. Mike Davis is as unsparing as you would imagine on COVID-19. One of the great m… https://t.co/6S7Mu7vu13

Absolutely right. The AE are been rocked by shocks to financial markets. But as @RobinBrooksIIF has highlighted the… https://t.co/yDfkyVJINq

Lagarde's disastrous comment on spreads unleashed the largest ever move in Italian 10yr yields. Larger even than du… https://t.co/npQSYfUcmB

'In Air and Fire: War Artists, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz' will be our new art exhibition. Opening on Frid… https://t.co/xQ13cBqmI5

How a credit squeeze from credit card companies might bring own the weakest airlines. Both Flybee and Thomas Cook w… https://t.co/mewDlQCyki

If this is meant to force the hand of fiscal authorities, it's a very bad strategy. If there was a moment for coord… https://t.co/o6KETxB4fn

“This crisis has until now been an exogenous one. Markets processing 2 huge external shocks (corona/oil). Now it is… https://t.co/xeGkEx1LMr

Meanwhile the plague of Locusts continues in Mid East and East Africa https://t.co/OcVALyLQ88

"What matters critically, and what was roiling markets Wednesday, is credit.” @johnauthers One can imagine a V-shap… https://t.co/E5hwQfmzFI

Someone somewhere had no choice but to sell Treasury bonds on Wednesday -> driving up yields unexpectedly even as s… https://t.co/qpbGWRZ5ay

When stress in EM builds, as during the current market sell-off, foreign investors often hedge their underlying exp… https://t.co/qmuOBXFbqJ

All day I've been getting messages about something bad unfolding in credit markets. If you look at current LEVELS,… https://t.co/1FNjnE7Suw

In wake of corona/oil shock, top-down strategists and economists make sweeping downgrades for entire corporate sec… https://t.co/mQtLpiaaLD

Defining moment for EU: shd trigger escape clause to cope with “an unusual event outside the control of the Member… https://t.co/yyM8ysye0m

.@RobinBrooksIIF is calling this the COVID-19 Sudden Stop for Emerging Markets. I hate to bring this up now, but h… https://t.co/5eBvlrucHp