#COVID19

Stella Roque

stellasroque

#PandemicDispatches: @ICFJ's Global Health Crisis Reporting Forum is taking 1-2 minute video diary submissions from #journalists around the world. Please submit your video to healthforum@icfj.org. Instructions in this thread for

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

SOBERING: U.S. reports over 100,000 coronavirus cases in 24 hours for the first time ever. Smashes all time record. We have basically lost this battle. Not sure if Christmas is

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Many discussions about #COVID19 boil down to wether the virus is 'just like the flu' or 'nothing like the flu'. As such, I felt it may be useful to provide

Matt Finkes

MattFinkes

Looking into what is happening in Sweden a little more (they are close to Ohio in pop, both around 11M). % of population over age 65: Ohio 16.2% Sweden 26.2%.

Klaus K

KlausKblog

Studies show consistently that #tobacco smokers are much less likely to be victims of #COVID19 hospitalization:9.6% smokers hospitalized vs. 31.2% expected (

Carl Quintanilla

carlquintanilla

"No one could have predicted the exponential rise of this." - Kudlow, on @CNBC now. #covid19

London Breed

LondonBreed

Restaurants are struggling to survive and delivery is their main option for staying open. I'm instituting a cap on the fees that delivery services can charge restaurants during this emergency,

Kevin K. Chung, MD

chungk1031

What is the longest duration of documented viral shedding (Ie - positive RT-PCR) you have observed a in a recovering #COVID19 patient?#MedTwitter Has anyone seen persistent positives beyond 50 days?

Whitney R. Robinson

WhitneyEpi

1. Pregnant & lactating people are often excluded from clinical trial and vaccine research. But that's starting to change. People in this space are actively updating ethical frameworks so providers

ICRC at the UN in NY 🗽

ICRC_NYC

As the #UNSC meets to discuss #COVID19 we explain the importance of International humanitarian law (#IHL) in helping combat the spread of the #coronavirus. International humanitarian law gives parties to

Hua Chunying 华春莹

SpokespersonCHN

China has decided to donate additional $30 million in cash to WHO to support its global fight against #COVID19, in particular strengthening developing countries' health systems. China already donated $20

Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 #NotMyBrexit

BrexitBin

WTF !!!Sage member Prof John Edmunds on herd immunity, lockdown and complete ruddy incompetence! Here's the same Sage guy, back on March 13th, arguing for herd immunity. Obviously he was

ANI

ANI

Number of #COVID19 cases has reached 1078 in Maharashtra as 60 more people tested positive today. 44 fresh cases have been found under Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation area, 9 under Pune

NCDC

NCDCgov

In his address to the nation, President @MBuhari spoke on Nigeria’s response to #COVID19 and measures put in place by the Government of Nigeria to control the outbreak as quickly

Christian Christensen

ChrChristensen

1) New case from Denmark shows how #COVID19 exposes stupidity of "populist" laws targeting Muslims. (Most well-known is ban on face covering...ironic given current practice of face-covering.) The latest fail?

Amy Maxmen, PhD

amymaxmen

Trump just announced he is suspending funding to @WHO while a review is conducted *THIS IS DESPICABLE* Let me lay out how WHO has responded to #COVID19 since Jan 5