ADAM TOOZE

Pandemics result from emergence of viral strains that are novel, often from genetic recombination in animal reservo… https://t.co/W5Os1BWDiC

“Banks cannot reasonably run at such low levels, in our view, without being penalized by the market,” @jpmorgan war… https://t.co/h03J8sZn9U

Since 1970s the standing capacity of hospital beds has been shrinking across medical systems of AE. But the UK and… https://t.co/SMmJgJDphd

“It would be lovely if we had binding statements on ‘no currency intervention,’ ‘no more tariffs,’ rolling over loa… https://t.co/muDp10wbtQ

Search for efficiency & profit interacted with funding of health care in US to shrink the standing capacity of hosp… https://t.co/u857vPHDNT

"In her press conference, Lagarde put great emphasis on the need for fiscal stimulus, but forgot that the ECB has a… https://t.co/BjHMrH44Uh

Why does the US not have enough hospital beds, respirators or even basic medical supplies to cope with corona? This… https://t.co/h9wRWnJagK

“I don’t see that ‘Committee to Save The World’ emerging yet,” Nathan Sheets March 2020. Since 2000s Institutions,… https://t.co/01NTTo6p4O

“We did not know how to navigate the virus & chose not to bc we didn't think we had an edge in trading it. So,

Churchillian strains from the UK, Civic nationalism in France … What is the political language with which the US r… https://t.co/gdtZGuCWE7

China’s anti-poverty campaign encouraged poor farmer to raise bamboo rats for meat. 66m are raised per year yieldin… https://t.co/3mQTFZ6gsW

"We need to be a shield to the nation" – French health minister goes for full-throated civic nationalism. Is that l… https://t.co/XO7AYQjiKI

In 1998 Clinton’s admin created the Health & Security Office in NSC George W. Bush’s admin abolished it in 2001, th… https://t.co/MuAC81QfEP

Can this be correct? The wealthy University of Chicago is not paying basic RA salaries?! https://t.co/meYYTtbJBX

"USD remains an unloved currency. Witness surge in gold prices. $’s calmness is reassuring. A sudden spike in $ val… https://t.co/ccj863CSWx

Propelled by oil-fueled steam turbines the engines of the WWI dreadnoughts were in the cockpit of modernity. https://t.co/h0qox686ih

Does the United States, like the French, have a way of “mobilizing medical reserves” and retired doctors so as to m… https://t.co/sFL96it1f8

America’s great universities have huge scientific and commercial resources but when it comes to corona virus testin… https://t.co/0ZE7yqOXDF

Since my Harvard lab closed yesterday, I've been reading and interpreting this week's published papers on #COVID19.… https://t.co/nrkyZJYWDg

How “retail arbitrage” and pandemic profiteering first led to price surges and then gridlock in key medical supplie… https://t.co/Mf9aEABNqk

The first photo of the USS enterprise model and the men who built it, 1965. See more photos here:… https://t.co/brGbAyqGHq

The Weather Does Not Make Viruses Go Away Excellent 538 video @biancoresearch @DrEricDing @adam_tooze @kr3at H/t… https://t.co/CGMX7W6skO

S Korea so far offers 3 crucial insights into #COVID19. (1) younger people DO get it (but don't die, and can transm… https://t.co/F65phqnBlv

More alarming pictures from O’Hare. Pandemic requires travel limitations -> folks return to the US. You channel tho… https://t.co/X3JKHPQYec

As US citizens and others fly in ahead of bans the scenes at the airports to which they are being funneled are terr… https://t.co/z9HA0ZgfR1

How the politics of climate and pandemics interact in coming years is going to be fascinating to watch … at this ve… https://t.co/nG49xRZOf2

Private jet companies in Europe swamped with calls to take wealthy Americans, others home after Trump travel ban https://t.co/9lklCl1CMU

Very interesting thread on how epidemiological modeling is fed into policy making in the UK. Cant help wondering wh… https://t.co/ys2wj8ty8v

Fed’s liquidity injection "can’t prevent upcoming slowdown. But it does mean that financial markets don’t need to h… https://t.co/527JHQ2W4T

@varifrank No I did not. Thank you for the recommendation!

As America's public health system faces a historic test, the VanEck Vectors High Yield Municipal Index ETF, which h… https://t.co/VHdOdqR2xg

Ok this is serious. Admiral James Stavridis on role of military in fighting pandemics. What is his advice? "If you… https://t.co/YLuYIEMsQu

How a middle aged man in flop-flops buying 20 packs of water and 15 packs of toilet paper sees himself https://t.co/EbcVbl9NQC

"The evaporation of liquidity was evident across virtually all asset classes, but it was most stark in securities w… https://t.co/ejyASdkCKY

A lot of modellers around the world are working flat out to find best way to minimise impact on population and heal… https://t.co/CxhpgZRalY

Berlin’s police out and about explaining and enforcing corona regulations … https://t.co/LpXTksyNvJ