#Outbreaks

Sarah Holland-Batt

the_shb

I've now read both the CDNA guidelines and the Australian Health Sector Emergency Response Plan - the two documents which Morrison has referred to as a comprehensive plan for managing

GordPerks

gordperks

1. This deserves a bit of explanation. Toronto Public Health has a long history of managing the contact tracing of communicable disease. It has deep principles informing that work and

Cynthia Mulligan

CityCynthia

NEW: Ontario has 510 new #Covid19 cases. That's a 4.3% increase - yesterday increase was 4.9% Deaths: 659 - up 37For first time more than half the cases are

John Tory

JohnTory

Following an extensive series of meetings we've held this week to review what can only be described as alarming results and trends in our city, @epdevilla today urged the Government

Jan Choutka

jan_choutka

As days get shorter, evenings longer, and the world in turmoil due to a pandemic, let me tell a sad and forgotten story. A tale of the early outbreaks of

Cybergibbons

cybergibbons

Classic case of misleading graphics without source.Title: "Traceable infections outside the home".Let's see where it comes from. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/9

Faisal Islam

faisalislam

NEW:Over a third - 36% of care homes in England, 5,546 out of 15,514 have now reported an acute respiratory outbreak of COVID-19 in past two months.47% of care homes

Caitlin Rivers, PhD

cmyeaton

Most states have begun to reopen. Here is my guess for what that will mean for transmission. A thread. 1/ The best possible scenario would have been that communities have

Daniel Reeders

engagedpractx

Lot of people disappointed that Melb isn't relaxing restrictions despite low numbers today. But it was never about the total or the R, pace John Quiggin's musings. It's about the

Rebecca Everett

RebeccajEverett

The state says that more than one-third of N.J.’s long-term care facilities have coronavirus. But families and even staff say that’s not the full scope of the problem.1/4https://bit.ly/2xR5RT6 One woman

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

To stop major outbreaks - we either need major behavioral change - seems unlikely - need to shutdown the economy again, vaccines (all of which problematic), or we need the

Cathy Young

CathyYoung63

So question. I'm obviously no epidemiologist, but re studies purporting to show that there's already a high % of asymptomatic seropositive people: if true, how do you explain catastrophic outbreaks

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

This is exactly the problem. Not only is pillar 2 data not available publicly, it's also not available to local authorities, making it impossible to identify what's causing this outbreak,

Matt Greenfield

sobri

With Thailand’s outbreak stuck with an R hovering above 1.0, stubbornly refusing to decline, I went looking for more uplifting numbers. Our cumulative Case Fatality Rate is at least comforting!

AG

AGHamilton29

This is the type of tweet someone sends when they don't actually look at any data, have no interest in the facts, and just have a preconceived narrative they want

Jana Bacevic

jana_bacevic

On a slightly more serious and elaborate note now: the 'back-to-classroom' conundrum in UK universities shows full well all the limits&weaknesses of 'markets' as vehicles of coordination 1/ one of