Keith Gandal (@kgandal) 's Twitter Profile
Keith Gandal

@kgandal

Prof, City College, NYC. Survivor of 1968 Hong Kong Flu

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Scientists diagnose dinosaur with malignant cancer found in humans today cnet.co/2F1ARTU via CNET Last line: ' "The dinosaur's diagnosis has created a thread across time, an unsettling connection between today and an ancient world."

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Why is the NYC COVID Death Rate Four Times that of Mumbai? new article on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… "Why would NYC, with its great hospitals, have a death rate from COVID that is much higher than Mumbai's, with its overcrowded and unsanitary slums?" An answer offered...

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Dear Mr. Henley, I'm a pal of Jim Giles. Had a talk with him; he's ok but needs physio and afraid to leave home. The reason I called him was because I was inspired by your great song to write "Hotel Coronavirus." Maybe this "rewrite" will help him go out. Maybe u can sing to him?

Dear Mr. Henley, I'm a pal of Jim Giles. Had a talk with him; he's ok but needs physio and afraid to leave home. The reason I called him was because I was inspired by your great song to write "Hotel Coronavirus." Maybe this "rewrite" will help him go out. Maybe u can sing to him?
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.City College of NY professor Keith Gandal and his brother Neil Gandal, a professor Tel Aviv University, found that U.S. death tolls from #COVID19 are 40% lower on the weekend. ow.ly/ODFW50B5PGd

.<a href="/CityCollegeNY/">City College of NY</a> professor Keith Gandal and his brother Neil Gandal, a professor <a href="/TelAvivUni/">Tel Aviv University</a>, found that U.S. death tolls from #COVID19 are 40% lower on the weekend. ow.ly/ODFW50B5PGd
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An Inconvenient Truth: The NYC COVID Death Rate is 4X that of Mumbai, India -- yes Mumbai, with its sprawling, overcrowded, unsanitary slums where social distancing is impossible Why? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf……… Science means examining outcomes that don't fit our given model.

An Inconvenient Truth: 

The NYC COVID Death Rate is 4X that of Mumbai, India
--
yes Mumbai,
with its sprawling, overcrowded, unsanitary slums where social distancing is impossible

Why?
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf………

Science means examining outcomes that don't fit our given model.
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David Fisman Prof Francois Balloux You seem open-minded. Have I found 2 profs truly interested in alt to our models that are wrong? The NYC COVID Death Rate is 4X that of Mumbai-- with its overcrowded, unsanitary slums where social distancing is impossible Why? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf………… Thanks for your time

<a href="/DFisman/">David Fisman</a> <a href="/BallouxFrancois/">Prof Francois Balloux</a> You seem open-minded. Have I found 2 profs truly interested in alt to our models that are wrong?

The NYC COVID Death Rate is 4X that of Mumbai--
with its overcrowded, unsanitary slums where social distancing is impossible

Why?
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…………

Thanks for your time
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CCNY’s Keith Gandal asks why NYC COVID death rate is four times that of Mumbai – CUNY Newswire www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2020/…

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First Documented Coronavirus Reinfection Reported in Hong Kong nytimes.com/2020/08/24/hea… THE HEADLINE IS INCENDIARY: THERE'S NO NEED TO WORRY; THE IMMUNE SYSTEM IS WORKING AS IT SHOULD. SEE CAPTION BELOW.

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Scaring Ourselves to Death aier.org/article/scarin… from American Institute for Economic Research This took 4 months to write and place (hard with today's COVIDarchy) -- it says it takes 4 mins to read. Maybe worth a look -- it could save your life or health (and those of someone you care about).

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“Everybody’s just worried about their next meal.” Tens of thousands of Americans are lining up for food handouts, many for the first time. Norman Butler lost his work as a driver after the coronavirus devastated tourism in New Orleans. apne.ws/KYZHlV2

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Scaring Ourselves to Death aier.org/?p=74820 via American Institute for Economic Research Toby Young Toby, the lockdowns & fearmongering have done even more damage than we imagine. They have literally increased COVID's lethality. This could be done w any virus, and maybe in the future it will be.

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Keith Gandal, Firsthand: How I Solved a Literary Mystery and Learned to Play Kickass Tennis while Coming to Grips with the Disorder of Things - Universty of Michigan Press, July 2024 press.umich.edu/Books/F/Firsth… (1/3)

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I almost missed this, given the subtitle, but Gandal attended Foucault's final Berkeley seminar, and The Gun and the Pen: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and the Fiction of Mobilization develops from this. global.oup.com/academic/produ… (2/3)

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Literary Hub published an excerpt by Keith Gandal from his new book in the #WritersonWriting series, "Firsthand: How I Solved a Literary Mystery and Learned to Play Kickass Tennis while Coming to Grips with the Disorder of Things." Read it at lithub.com/on-my-attempt-…