#Covid

1/ NEW- “What does severe COVID really look like?” - primarily a respiratory disease- severe COVID invariably requires mechanical ventilation - Around 50% will survive ICUhttps://link.medium.com/OzYiZKWSjfb  2/ Between 5-10% of
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1) In what could only be described as a late-afternoon “data dump"on Friday, the government released its latest projections for #COVID19 until August. To put it mildly, they conflict with
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The fewer COVID-19 tests conducted, the fewer infections identified. Arkansas is still way behind all of its neighboring states in testing. It flies in the face of every effective strategy
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THREAD:Here's just a few times Fox News has claimed the coronavirus crisis has passed: Feb 25, Fox medical contributor Dr. Janette Nesheiwat said of coronavirus, “We have it contained in
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Another day; another sign that covid-19 spread is MUCH wider than currently understood. @kdrum https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/04/heres-a-lifesaving-covid-19-test-that-costs-almost-nothing/At At some point, our models run by government le
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BREAKING: Sen. Elizabeth Warren tweets that her oldest brother, Don Reed, died from COVID-19 complications.http://abcn.ws/2XX1As8  MORE: "What made him extra special was his smile—quick and crooked, it always seemed to
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Hungry for your next hit of 'hope'? Promising early results on a CoVid19 vaccine. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/09/covid-19-vaccine-candidate-effective-pfizer-biontech?CMP=Share_iOSApp_OtherWhat does this mean in practi
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Kembali bertambah, pasien meninggal akibat COVID-19 di KarimunA thread https://jurnalterkini.id/berita/7995/kembali-bertambah-pasien-meninggal-akibat-covid-19-di-karimun/ Karimun, http://JurnalTerkini.id  - Pasien positif COVID-19 yan
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Really good explainer on the complexity of corona:https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-its-so-freaking-hard-to-make-a-good-covid-19-model/ More here:https://medium.com/data-for-science/epidemic-modeling-101-or-why-your-covid19-exponential-fits-ar
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Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz wrote a prayer about this Covid-19 pandemic. His center translated it into more than a dozen languages. I'll tweet all of them in this thread.1/ Rabbi Adin
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Sharing important results from Easter weekend poll of random sample of Ontario households (n=5,045) by @MainStResearch @Forumpolling@BogochIsaac @DFisman @DrToddLee @jkwan_md 1/8 Bottom line: up to 19% of Ontario households have
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Ontario reports 425 new COVID-19 cases, the 3rd time in 4 days the number has surpassed 400 and the highest daily total since early June. Highest number of cases are
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Does anyone believe this "drove 260 miles with covid" story? Because I don't. Here's what I think happened. 1/ Dom and his wife had arranged some time before to visit
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One of the key things that we are missing in our public health messaging in Ontario re: COVID is that “personal responsibility” is not at all sufficient, especially 6 months
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Non Ebola morbidity & mortality goes up 4 fold during outbreaksWe don’t want to see this for all our patients during covid-19 pandemicHaving paid a FORTUNE to rent the private
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Vasileios Lampos, a computer scientist at University College London, and other researchers have found that a bevy of symptom-related searches — loss of smell as well as fever and shortness
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