#Outbreaks

Dillon Richards

KOCODillon

NEW: Oklahoma reports 1,164 new coronavirus cases, bringing the 7-day average to a record high of more the 1,100 daily cases. The dizzying spike in cases comes amid a sudden

Jelena Subotic

suboticjelena

Dear UK academic friends currently facing the completely predictable clusterfuck of forced in-person teaching: this is a letter from your near future, as we in the US have gone through

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

My discussion on the role schools play in transmission, and what needs to be done with @bbcworldservice - speaking with Paul Henley and panelists, @georginagodwin and @DomJermey. Please listen from

Neeja Bakshi

NeejaB

I've been seeing some posts about hospitalizations not being "that bad" / being less than wave 2 in December- & some confusion as to why that is, given case #

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ One point people miss about #Covid:There are super-spreader events.There are also super-TESTER events.What do I mean?Many people infected with #Sars-Cov-2 never have any symptoms at all. The commonly used

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO

We are aware that lockdowns are again a topic of discussion as countries deal with surges of #COVID19.We understand that sometimes such measures - although not sustainable - are needed

Christopher T. Rentsch

DarthCTR

1/New study in @PLOSMedicine on racial/ethnic disparities in #COVID19 in US. Black and Hispanic people were 2x as likely to test positive than White people, even after adjustment. No difference

Will Ragland

citizenwillis

President Trump ignored repeated warnings about the threat of pandemics and COVID-19. Let's review. Bill Gates, who spoke with Trump soon after his election. Here’s Trump’s HHS Secretary Alex Azar

Migrant Solidarity Network - India

IndiaMigrant

(1) As states grapple with responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become increasingly clear that the global society follows an existing script of the outbreak narrative which facilitates more

Lionel Page

page_eco

Australia has been remarkably successful at slowing down infections over the last few days. Today there were only 4% new confirmed cases!THREAD about possible causes and what it means for

Elizabeth C. McLaughlin (she/her)

ECMcLaughlin

I just tuned in right now, and am I wrong that this all sounds suspiciously like the President directed the premiere biocontainment lab at Homeland Security to try to prove

Let us speak SCIM Lucas Gonzalez

lucasgonzalez

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/30/boris-johnsons-test-and-tracing-system-britain-lockdownIF this is the norm and not an exception because we were only starting, and has been confirmed (say by cases trying to be tracked?

Ananyo Bhattacharya

Ananyo

Heard two Tory MPs say, "We're going to be living with the virus longer than we expected" on the radio this morning. This is a new narrative to avoid culpability

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

This article touches upon many of the concepts we have been thinking about over the last few years. How do we evaluate vaccines/therapeutics during public health emergencies? RCTs are tricky

Tomer Burg

burgwx

On a day where the US had by far its largest daily deaths yet (+1965), and surpassed the estimated H1N1 pandemic total deaths (up to 12,835 deaths this evening), I'll

Chris von Csefalvay

chrisvcsefalvay

I'd like to think so. But at the same time, I've seen too many outbreaks that ended as abruptly as they began (especially haemorrhagic fevers). It's an unsettling, eerie feeling,