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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

The "drip drip drip" of data he was seeing from countries that were hit first told him what was coming, and he made it his mission to start a campaign for masks -- Masks4All. He was joined in his efforts immediately, as he told me, by dedicated and talented "self-selected people" who connected him with media outlets, politicians and more.

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Here are The Missing Positives of This Election

Both Sides of the Table

I have felt more connected and more bonded and increased my respect for those who have taken moral stands or have put in hours of work for the campaign. I say emotional because it touched me that a senior media executive would put his life on hold to literally walk and knock on doors. Who else currently has elected a female leader ? — Liberia,