#Infections

Interesting listening to the @IndependentSage briefing on schools yesterday. They highlighted how cases of Covid-19 in primary school have increased sharply. Story here & thread belowhttps://www.tes.com/news/coronavirus-schools-sharp-ri
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#JapanPolitics - the degree of similarity between the Abe Administration's fight against #Covid_19 and the Johnson Administration's fight in Vietnam is approaching 1:1https://twitter.com/HirokoTabuchi/status/1245678017957036033 At the beginni
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Want to talk about INFLECTION POINT and how it looks like we have reached this in our country with hospitalizations at this vaccination rate & also turning the corner in
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So the HK gov has said that there could be 1500 silent COVID carriers in town and a whole-of-population mass screening scheme will effectively identify them. This is a grid
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‘Oxygen level’- A term we have come across very often in the past one year.Ever wondered, you acquire a molecule which increases the total blood oxygen capacity SEVENTY fold !!!Lets
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The Trump Administration shut down the CDC's COVID-19 Dashboard yesterday. The data, what is still available, is frozen and no longer being updated as of yesterday morning. 1/ Hospitals were
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Trump is about to deliver a pandemic rally speech in The Villages, Florida. Follow me for a video thread. Trump lies about Mazie Hirono's statements about the Green New Deal,
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Random thoughts / speculation about the implications of the NY sero survey. I’m sure most of this will be proven wrong, but this is where my instincts are. Feel free
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If you're arguing over whether Boris & Co's 'herd immunity' policy (& the resulting delay in lockdown) had any effect on death rates - here's your angle, lads.You have a
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#MelbourneConversations @VictorianCHO has downloaded the app #covidsafe it will help automating the contact tracing @VicGovDHHS #diseasedetectives The more people that download the app, the more bluetooth handshakes will take place
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1) If anybody comes across posts saying that the CDC says masks don’t work, here’s a fact-check you can useBasic fact-check:https://www.politifact.com/.../no-cdc-who-study-does-not.../The paper:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-
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For the second time during the biggest public health crisis in the Philippines, the Health Secretary has made a declaration that he had to clarify after massive criticism and confusion.https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2020/07/16/2028303/d
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1/ Thread: Don't mean to join the tin foil hat brigade but I have concerns the rate of infections in schools is being suppressed from public knowledge.In March the government
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UPDATED DATA:New modeling suggests that California's peak will now be on April 13th, and with dramatically lower numbers thanks to significantly flattening of the curve and reducing transmission.https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-ame
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THREAD re the "everybody's-got-it" school of covid truthery, which my story this wk in @TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/11/why-a-study-showing-that-covid-19-is-everywhere-is-good-news, based on study by @in
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@MuffinAndElliot Since you are stating you are a fan of who I won't name but somehow have been reading and RT'ing a few comments of mine, I wish to reply
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