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Carl T. Bergstrom
CT_Bergstrom
1. I've written elsewhere about three different roles for COVID testing: https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1274576193333850112But whether you are testing for individual health, surveillance, or mitigation, speed is of the essence.
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Eric Topol
EricTopol
On the day that the United States reached the 100,000 death toll by @JHUSystems: All in < 90 days. (February 28th was the 1st)The country stands alone in the world
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Prof Francois Balloux
BallouxFrancois
A sense of perspective may help. There have been multiple pandemics over the last 100 years: influenza A 1957, 1968, 2009), 6th (1899-1923) and 7th (1961/75) cholera pandemic and HIV/AIDS.
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Wes Pegden
WesPegden
Age-targeted strategies are often interpreted in extreme ways: "cut off", "perfectly segregate", etc, some part of society, while everyone else "gets on with normal life".Obviously in this formulation, skeptici
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Dibyendu Nandi
ydnadydnad
In a widely publicized briefing @PrinSciAdvGoI underscored the importance of a) every individual citizen adopting physical distancing measures and b) vaccinations. He also said a third phase of #COVID19India is
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IU Bloomington
IUBloomington
Based on an increasingly alarming rate of positive test results from continued COVID-19 mitigation testing, IU and its public health experts believe Greek houses are not safe given the pandemic
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Dr. Alex Huffman
HuffmanLabDU
Six more box fan + MERV-13 filters (these for our kid's school). Layered mitigation efforts matter for COVID: social distancing, masks, increase ventilation, reduce indoor time with others, improve particle
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Hamish Clarke
SciAtTheLocal
THREAD It was a privilege to be able to make some modest contributions to the analyses by the @BushfireHub for the NSW Bushfire Inquiry. Here's a summary (full reports available
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@hjellebrian
hjellebrian1
For those of us who sweated over such unvaccinable, uncontrollable foes as HIV and HCV, SARS-CoV-2 is actually interesting cuz it CONSTANTLY shows us its weaknesses. There are several... One
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Anant Bhan
AnantBhan
Writing in @ThePrintIndia today on #WorldHealthDay @MonJunNot & I argue that the current discourse on COVID-19 response focuses overtly on ventilator availability, ICU care & not enough on the
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Dan Gardner
dgardner
This is what smart risk analysis and risk mitigation look like.https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/1247933676874334208 More details here. Note that Wimbeldon got this right by scanning for the range of threats and collectively mitigating
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Chris Smaje
csmaje
Much to agree with in this thread. Subversive steps that build beyond one’s own homestead are certainly vital. And indeed the story didn’t start with ‘people like us’ – engaging
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Patrick T. Brown
PatrickTBrown31
Ok, this one is not going to make me a ton of friends on Climate Twitter but out of both curiosity, and in the name of scientific completeness, somebody had
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Heath Mayo
HeathMayo
COVID arrived in the US on January 13. Wednesday is May 13.That’s four months. Four months to figure things out, to communicate a plan, & to get testing & tracing
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𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍
jvipondmd
So, here's a summary of the good and the bad in today's announcement, starting with the bad REally? Casinos open? Restaurants open? despite strong CDC evidence for them being huge
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
Dangerously negligent! “With the surging number of COVID-19 variants, (BC health chief) Dr Henry said BC would cease tracking individual variants, & proceed on assumption that variants are now
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