#Outbreaks

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

Do kids transmit #COVID19 less often than adults?New paper published from contact tracing in S Korea.(I'm 1-2d late to the party but other threads are mis-representing the paper/data or missing

Tom Inglesby

T_Inglesby

Dangerous rise in COVID cases around US. We need to strengthen containment efforts and change directions. But it’s not inevitable that COVID cases will inexorably grow thru winter, sweep all

Sarah Mills

smillsSK

Here we go folks, the Re-Open Saskatchewan Plan as the government is calling it.Premier Scott Moe and Chief Medical Health Officer Doctor Saquib Shahab will lay out the five-phase opening.We

Lone Wolf Ratnakar

GabbarSanghi

April 8 1929- Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt, throw bombs in Central Assembly in Delhi, to register their protest and surrender. A very significant date in many ways, this thread

WHA Grad Caucus

WHAGrads

Hi all! I'm Nathan Ellstrand, @nellstra, a PhD Candidate at @loyolahistdept. Thanks to @WHAGrads for the opportunity to takeover! My work focuses on the Unión Nacional Sinarquista (UNS or National

Thursday Bram

thursdayb

Portland’s protests are continuing, but some of the organizations have shifted, combined or disbanded. If you’re looking to support Portland protestors as of August 4th and can afford to donate,

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

COVID Update May 13: In the midst of the largest death toll from illness in 100 years, Trump is pushing to end health coverage for millions & limit it for

Tom Inglesby

T_Inglesby

The US has reached a terrible milestone of 100,000 lives lost to COVID19. It’s important to stop to think about how this disease has hurt the country, and to focus

John Burn-Murdoch

jburnmurdoch

NEW thread: here’s the latest data on how vaccines are fighting Covid.My India tweets earlier were grim, but these are more optimisticVaccines are working in the UK , working in

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

COVID Update May 18: Monday I try to provide a state of the union on COVID.Categories today: New York/rest of US, State Openings, Science, Congress, Public Discource 1/ The state

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO

Daily media briefing on #2019nCoV with @DrTedros https://www.pscp.tv/w/cRK5ujI2MTAyMHwxWmtLekx3ZUxsWkp2UyshzLCVq_ErT2xAeYCeULUJhJmytWGPWcOvr7qJusc= "Although the world is now focused on #2019nCoV, we cannot and must not forget #Ebola in #DRC.We

Jade Khalife

JadeKhalife

1. #Lebanon is entering a very dark period with #COVID19, as we expected. The next 2-3 weeks will have more regular daily deaths of 10-20 people. Little can be done

Andrew Bostom

andrewbostom

1/ Campus C19 update, 10/5/20: Despite ~70K C19+ tests at 50 major universities, barely any reported hospitalizations (i.e., 3), & no deaths. (Tabulated below, with explanation, & more refs following

Atomsk's Sanakan

AtomsksSanakan

1/EVarious southeast Asian nations suffered relatively few COVID-19 deaths per capita, especially in comparison to many "western" nations.There's been a lot of speculation on why this is. So this thread

John Bye

_johnbye

2,000 elderly residents died in care homes in a single week, largely unnoticed, because they weren't included in the daily press briefing numbers. As the grim statistics finally start to

Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓

BillyBostickson

1. The mysterious case of Eddie Holmes and the SARS-COV-2 genome sequence publication delayhttps://twitter.com/TheSeeker268/status/1380600964218974209Seems that Eddie was playing the "innocent card" @TheSeeker268 @franciscodeasis