#Outbreaks

Albert Pinto

70sBachchan

Meatpacking workers are mostly immigrants & instead of protecting them, regulatory agencies *weakened* safety during pandemic to keep the plants open. These unsafe plants then spread the virus into rural

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

#covid19 presser @WHO starts with @DrTedros saying almost 2,5 million cases have now been reported to WHO and more than 160,000 deaths. "We see different trends in different regions and

CBC News Alerts

CBCAlerts

Ontario is reporting 115 new coronavirus cases after a full week of fewer than 100 new daily cases. The province's health minister says despite that, the overall trend is downwards.

Michael Luo

michaelluo

NEW from this week’s @newyorker, ⁦@cduhigg⁩: Seattle’s leaders moved fast to persuade people to stay home and follow the scientists’ advice; New York’s leaders...moved more slowly, offered more muddied messages,

Deirdre Gilhawley

DeeGilhawley

Questions for tomorrow's briefing:1. The scientific advisory group, SAGE, in the UK estimates that closing schools would reduce transmission more than any other single measure (reduce R by 0.2-0.5).What does

Brynn Tannehill

BrynnTannehill

I'm not an epidemiologist. But, we've got kids that are supposed to go back to school in the fall. This is what we're seeing, and it's pretty freaking bleak: a

Trisha Greenhalgh 😷 #CovidIsAirborne

trishgreenhalgh

Masks in schools. Short thread. I write as a parent, an ex-school governor, a GP and someone who does research on masks.Kids get COVID-19. Extremely rarely, they get it badly

John Haldeman 📉

JLHaldeman

A lot is being made of the reduction in testing in Ontario. I tend to agree - if there is capacity we should take advantage of it. More information can

Geoff Garin

geoffgarin

"It did not have to happen this way. Though not perfectly prepared, the United States had more expertise, resources, plans and epidemiological experience than dozens of countries that ultimately fared

Crystal moth

Prolapsarian

I think I was wrong. I thought that people in the government understood some of the science and just took a different, somewhat more maverick view. But now I am

Richard Chu

richard_chu97

With an aging population and higher healthcare costs than ever, the system needs to become more efficientTelemedicine only solves part of the problem. Physicians are still going to be spending

Back in Time West London

OldLondonW14

London has often faced the terrible challenge of disease outbreaks. The smallpox epidemic in 1881 led to a desperate shortage of hospital beds. London’s Metropolitan Asylums Board (MAB) considered housing

Washington Examiner

dcexaminer

"I think the governor and the mayor, frankly, have handled things very well."@SenSchumer heaps praise on @NYGovCuomo and @BilldeBlasio for their handling of the coronavirus pandemic. New York admits purposely

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

Press briefing today- data clearly shows that the UK has essentially followed the Italy curve almost exactly. Germany shows an early plateau & is moving the S. Korea way. What

Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺

fascinatorfun

T+T report w/e 23rd Sept.Despite no change in number of tests, - cases in pillar 1 34%-3,653 to 4,898 (NHS/PHE labs – outbreaks/hospital)- cases in pillar 2 67% -15,853 to

Leora Horwitz

leorahorwitzmd

Oy. Schools. This is really tough. As we debate risk/benefit, understanding whether schools are a major source of transmission to the community (and high risk people) is the billion dollar