Maggie Koerth
Sr Science Reporter at @FiveThirtyEight. All I write about is COVID now. Follow for news, (hopefully) insightful analysis, and isolated parenting adventures.
Last synced from Twitter 1106d ago
Many Americans Are Convinced Crime Is Rising In The U.S. They’re Wrong.
Will you get robbed this year? How would you rate your chances? Over 10 years, from 1994 to 2004, the national Survey of Economic Expectations asked respondents…
White Neighborhoods Have More Access To COVID-19 Testing Sites
Graphics by Ryan Best Design by Emily Scherer When the coronavirus outbreak threatened to rock Philadelphia’s predominantly Black neighborhoods, Dr. Ala Stanfor…
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Maggie Koerth
This is some AMAZING investigative reporting by our own @laurabronner and an @ABC team. COVID-19 is hitting black and brown communities hardest ... and those communities also are the hardest places to get a COVID test.
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Police: 'Umbrella Man' was a white supremacist trying to incite George Floyd rioting
Police say the suspect has been identified, but no charges had been filed as of Tuesday afternoon.
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Maggie Koerth
They found the Umbrella Man, maybe. A tipster called in last week. He hasn't been charged yet, but Star Trib is saying he's a 32-year-old Minnesotan who has affiliations with both biker gangs and white supremacist gangs.
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Is insulting worms a slippery slope to racism? No. — Step(h) into Nature
Wormgate 2020: The reckoning. When one man criticised C elegans on Twitter, little did he know the can of worms (HAHAHA) he'd be opening...
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Maggie Koerth
"Is Insulting Worms a Slippery Slope to Racism? No."
This is the best headline ever.
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COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning tool
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Also, thanks to @marynmck and her new story in @wired
for telling me about this amazing project that shows you the percentage chance risk a person with COVID will be at a gathering in your county.
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Every Decision Is A Risk. Every Risk Is A Decision.
It has been a summer of compromises, a season of bending the rules. If I wear a mask and I keep my distance, I can go for a walk with a friend. Hand sanitizer i…
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Maggie Koerth
Is COVID-19 making you exhausted, and you aren’t even infected? Me, too. Welcome to the summer of our discontent.
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Twin Cities schools report widespread online-attendance absences as students start learning from home
Minnesota’s transition to distance learning has left out tens of thousands of K-12 students and threatens to expand the state’s already wide gaps in achievement, early attendance reports suggest. D…
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Maggie Koerth
When school started up online after spring break (and a few weeks completely off before that) 1/3 of Minneapolis Public School students didn't log in ...
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Why Is the COVID-19 Death Rate Down?
The gap between soaring cases and falling deaths is being weaponized by the right to claim a hollow victory in the face of shameless failure. What’s really going on?
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Maggie Koerth
This is such a great story that does a good job of grappling with "we don't know" and how to make that not feel like a cop out.
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Land-grab universities
Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.
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Maggie Koerth
You need to read this story on the Land Grant University system and how it pillaged Native American lands. I did not realize, before I read this, that land grants were not just for the land the colleges were built on ...
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U.S. Customs Seizes Shipment of Human Hair Weaves From Prisoners in Chinese Internment Camps
The production of these goods constitutes a very serious human rights violation,' a Customs & Border Patrol official said
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Maggie Koerth
Wow. Nearly a million dollars’ worth of hair seized because it came, not from Indian temples, but from Muslim ethnic minorities who are being detained in concentration camps in China.
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The Science of Mask-Wearing Hasn’t Changed. So Why Have Our Expectations?
Before every fashion retailer was selling their own cloth face covering, before a piece of fabric over your nose and mouth became a personal political statement…
State Coronavirus Data Doesn’t Support Trump’s Misleading Testing Claims
The Trump administration has doubled down on its claims that coronavirus case counts are up because the U.S. has increased testing. However, a closer look at graphs of testing numbers and positive cases shows that this isn’t the case for many states.
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Maggie Koerth
Florida, Texas and Arizona all have WAY more new COVID-19 cases than can be accounted for by increases in testing capacity. In other states, testing is up and positive cases are down. The idea that more positives just represent more testing is crapola
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Guilford Police Department
Giant shout out to our amazing Guilford Fire Department for the unbelievable rescue of a Guilford resident who fell down a 20-30ft well.... in a house!!!! 👏 👏 👏
Yup you read that correctly! The...
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Maggie Koerth
Me: Wow, it's really great the fire department saved this person and holy shit I can't believe the homeowner didn't put in at least a subfloor, what a damn mess.
Also me: HOW AWESOME TO HAVE YOUR OWN 20-30 FOOT DEEP ABYSS.
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Is Police Reform A Fundamentally Flawed Idea?
In January, Philip McHarris was driving from New Haven to Boston to visit a friend when he saw a familiar sight in his rearview mirror — flashing police lights…
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Maggie Koerth
Sometimes @FiveThirtyEight, we go looking for data about a problem and end up finding an entirely different story ... because the data that's tracked turns out to not actually be the data we need.
That happened with this story on police reform ...
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An Estimated 60,000 March in Silence for Black Lives
"The silence was a really powerful idea. Just marching down the street and letting the bodies speak for themselves."
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Maggie Koerth
Protests are not over. Not in Minneapolis. Not in the rest of the country, either. An estimated 60,000 people turned out to march for Black Lives Matter in Seattle over the weekend. The march stretched for over two miles
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Tracking Cristobal: Unprecedented storm track, heavy rainfall ahead
The remnants of Tropical Depression Cristobal are forecast to take an unprecedented track across the Upper Midwest.
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Maggie Koerth
So. Minneapolis. How are we doing? Good? Good.
We're getting hit by a tropical cyclone Tuesday.
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The Two Autopsies Of George Floyd Aren’t As Different As They Seem
Do the autopsies of George Floyd agree, or not? News reports from last week suggest the report produced by the Hennepin County medical examiner and the one prod…
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Maggie Koerth
The two autopsies of George Floyd don't actually disagree, experts told me. "Take away the compression, and he doesn't die."
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Minneapolis' Third Precinct served as 'playground' for renegade cops
Even before George Floyd was killed, the south Minneapolis precinct had a reputation for being home to police officers who played by their own rules.
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This is the precinct I watched protesters burn a little over a week ago. (Some of the details in this article will be hard to read, so fair warning.)
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The Unstudied Scars of Civil Rights Resistance
The Civil Rights fight in the U.S. was like a war zone. Bur little research has been done on how its veterans fared, mentally and physically, years later.
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Maggie Koerth
Four years ago, I wrote this @undarkmag with fellow Minneapolitan Keno Evol. I'm thinking about it a lot now. POC who stand up to injustice do so even though it hurts their bodies and minds -- significant in a country where healthcare access is not equal.
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DreamHaven Restoration organized by Greg Ketter
DreamHaven Books & Comics has been around in one form or another for 43 years in the Twin Citie… Greg Ketter needs your support for DreamHaven Restoration
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Maggie Koerth
Dreamhaven Books wasn't very close to the rioting, but seems to have been a victim of one of the weird attacks we saw a lot of in this city last week -- people driving up to target specific stores for destruction. It narrowly escaped arson.
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