Coronavirus Articles: Endorsements and public shares

From epidemiologists, experts, politicians and thinkers

Tomas Pueyo
Tomas Pueyo
4 min readMar 21, 2020

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This is a running list of endorsements for the two Coronavirus articles I have written:

Article 1: Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
Article 2: Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance

Article 1: Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now

Experts

Anthony Costello, ex-Director at the World Health Organization. Professor, University College London (tweet)
Didier Pittet, Professor of Medicine and Hospital Epidemiology (tweet)
Gabriel Scally, Public health physician, Former Regional Director of Public Health in England, Hon Professor of Public Health at University of Bristol. Tweet:

John Nosta, Google Health Advisory Board and WHO Digital Health Roster of Experts (tweet)
Brad Spiller, Medical Microbiologist (tweet)
Darren Larsen, CMO OntarioMD. Family Doc Women’s College. Teacher at UofT DFCM and IHPME (tweet)
Trish Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Care, U of Oxford (tweet)
Peter Kolchinsky, Virologist & Managing Partner, RA Capital Management (tweet)

Frank Harrell, Prof, Founding Chair of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt U. (tweet)
Sinan Aral, MIT Professor, Director MIT IDE (tweet)
Remi Salomon, President of Doctors for Paris Hospitals (tweet)
Wanda de Kanter, Chest physician Antoni van Leeuwenhoek/ Netherlands Cancer Institute (tweet)
Miguel Hernan, Health Researcher and Harvard Professor (tweet)
Dr. David Schlaes, infectious disease expert and advisor for the American Council on Science and Health.
Nirav R. Shah, MD, MPH. Senior Scholar, Stanford University and former Health Commissioner, New York State Department of Health
Matti Jantunen, professor emeritus at the National Institute for Health and Welfare (blog post)

Also, a list of 500 UK academics with the same message and who quote my article as one of two sources.

Thinkers

Jonathan Haidt, Social psychologist at NYU-Stern (tweet)
Marc Benioff, Founder and CEO of Salesforce
Ev Williams, Founder of Twitter/Medium
Tim Berners-Lee, Director of W3C
Steven Pinker, Cognitive scientist at Harvard.
Tim Ferriss, Best selling author, investor
Andrew Yang, Entrepreneur and Policial Figure
George Takei, Best selling author, actor, activist
Subramanian Swamy, Member of Indian Parliament
Mike Cannon-Brookes, Co-founder and co-CEO of Atlassian
Mark Manson, NYTimes Best selling author
Salman Khan, Khan Academy Founder
Casey Newton, Writer/reporter
Nicholas Thompson, Editor in Chief of Wired. Contributor CBS News
Noah Smith, Bloomberg Opinion writer
Leigh Sales, Australian journalist
Danyal Gilani, Former Press Secretary to PM
Syed Talat Hussain, Journalist, writer
Dawn Butler, Member of Parliament
Clint Watts, Author
Katty Kay, Journalist BBC News
Jason Hickel, Anthropologist, Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London
Douglas Carswell, Member of Parliament
Sruthijith KK, Editor
John Canzano, Columnist
Dean Phillips, Politician from Minnesota
Sam Wang, Scientist
Michael Slezak, National Science Technology and Environment Reporter
Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe
Lindsey Hilsum, Television journalist
Thomas P. Bossert, Politician/analyst
Sarah Evans, Founder & CEO, Sevans Strategy & Sevans Digital PR
Caterina Fake, Entrepreneur
David Mobley, Professor
James Fallows, Journalist
Tom Peters, Writer
Darren McCaffrey, Editor
Daniel Dennett, Author, philosopher
Nick Valencia, Correspondent at CNN
Rory Stewart, Politician
Philip Bump, National correspondent for The Washington Post
Julia Hartley-Brewer, English Broadcaster
Vijay Iyer, Pianist, Harvard Prof
Steven Strogatz, Mathematician, writer, Cornell professor.
Peter Jukes, Founder, Editor
Margaret Atwood, Author, poet
Simon Baron-Cohen, Psychologist, professor
Mark Scott, Secretary, Department of Education
Beau Willimon, Writer/Producer/Playwright
Barry R McCaffrey, Politician (Bill Clinton’s cabinet)
Richard Bacon, British TV broadcaster
Richard D. Wolff, American Economist
Edward Norton, Actor
Carlos Bravo Regidor, Professor
Dick Costolo, ex CEO, Twitter
Candice Malcolm, Journalist, best-selling author
David Brin, Scientist, Author
Amanda Foreman, Biographer, WSJ Columnist
Jodi Ettenberg, Writer, speaker
Stan Kutcher, Senator from Nova Scotia
Tomas E. Ricks, Writer
Kara Swisher, Journalist, co-founder
Shiv Aroor, Journalist at India Today
Ehud Barak, Former Prime Minister Israel

Article 2: Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance

Experts

Dr. Carl Juneau, epidemiologist, translator of the French version
Peter Kolchinsky, virologist, MP & RA Capital Management (tweet)
Andreas Eenfeldt, MD (tweet)
Dr. Brandon Fainstad, MD
J. Alegre-Cebollada, Scientist and group leader at Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (tweet)
Trish Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Care, U of Oxford (tweet)
Yaneer Bar-Yam, Physicist focused on pandemic dynamics
Stéphane Debove, researcher in evolutionary biology
Bill Bowtell AO, Adjunct Professor UNSW Strategic Health Policy Consultant
Carlos M. Guevara, Doctor in Genetics (tweet)
Esteban Ortiz, PhD, Medical Researcher (tweet)
Gonzalo Perez, Cardiologist. Chief Editor at @SIAC_cardio (tweet)
Franck Ramus, Researcher at the CNRS, professeur @ENS_Ulm (tweet)
Dr Gopal Ashish Sharma (tweet)
Mousumi Mukherjee, PhD, Associate Professor & Deputy Director, International Institute for Higher Education Research & Capacity Building, O.P. Jindal Global University (tweet)
Richard H Ebright, Professor of Chemical Biology at Rutgers (tweet)
Nirav R. Shah, MD, MPH. Senior Scholar, Stanford University and former Health Commissioner, New York State Department of Health

Thinkers

Toomas Hendrik Ilves, former president of Estonia(tweet)
Michael McMahon, Macroeconomics Professor at Oxford (tweet)
Andre Picard, health columnist at The Globe and Mail (tweet)
Jason Furman, Economist and Professor
Noah Smith, Bloomberg Opinion writer
Niall Ferguson, Author, broadcaster
Geoffrey Miller, Psychology professor, author
Trevor Tombe, Associate professor in Econ
George Takei, Best selling author, actor, activist
Steve Smith, Speaker, author
Radley Balko, Opinion Jounalist
Jairo Llarena, Economics PhD (tweet)
Dave McClure, founder 500 Startups (tweet)
Amitabh Kant, CEO Niti Aayog (policy think tank of the Government of India) (tweet)
Iñaki Arrola, VC (tweet)

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Tomas Pueyo
Tomas Pueyo

2 MSc in Engineering. Stanford MBA. Ex-Consultant. Creator of applications with >20M users. Currently leading a billion-dollar business @ Course Hero