#Outbreaks

Situation continues to deteriorate.There's a weekly cycle in testing numbers, so best to compare weekly. Comparing Fri (7/5) with Fri (30/4) daily tests (25,200) almost indentical. Everything else has got
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It's #epidemiology history time! Up today: vaccination! Smallpox was a deadly disease that can be traced back as far as 3rd century BCE in Egyptian mummies and repeatedly appeared in
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A suspected case of bubonic plague has been reported to authorities in ChinaIt’s not known how the patient got infected, but the country is on alertThe plague is one of
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You’ve probably heard about test positivity—a powerful metric that can reveal the percentage of COVID-19 tests coming back positive. This metric comes with some pretty big caveats. Let’s break them
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We recognise that this is a difficult time for many of us & so we'd like to highlight some mental health resources that are available. @EquityUK mental health & well-being
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#BREAKING: Martin Foley says #Wollert man arrived into Australia from overseas on April 19, the department has arranged for further urgent testing, the re-test came back as a positive #COVID19
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United States will likely go down as the country that was supposedly best prepared to fight a pandemic but ended up catastrophically overmatched by the coronavirus, sustaining heavier casualties than
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1) Eclipsed by the tragic news of the #COVID19 death of a 19-year-old Repentigny student Friday were two troubling and inter-connected developments. In this thread, I will explain what they
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Health is the essential underpinning of productive, resilient and stable economies - @DrTedros, WHO DGhttp://www.healthnews.ng/health-is-the-essential-underpinning-of-productive-resilient-and-stable-economies-who-dg/ The DG of the World Hea
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We have to take action based on facts and evidence—not fear and misinformation—if we want to win the fight against COVID-19. FACT: Canada’s borders have been closed to non-essential travel
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1/Today, I learned that no meaningful process exists for people to apply for critical benefits from a new Medicare program, created to extend coverage to thousands of vulnerable, elderly patients
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Another explanation for the COVID-19 testing backlog in California — hospitals & clinics are using slower, bottlenecked testing pipelines instead of fast academic labs that have capacity to sparehttps://twitter.com/amymaxmen/status/12482915391444
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The Maximale Controle plan of @MinPres, OMT, and @RIVM will fail for 4 reasons:1) If it succeeds, 137K die.2) Natural herd immunity probably won't happen.3) Precise timing & scaling required
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Ferguson et al’s Imperial report set the tone for everyone else. He didn’t think China or even Korea really had their original outbreaks contained. They assumed there would always be
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Lot of speculation these days about how #Trump Admin will manage a REAL crisis, given its high level of baseline chaos. Let's dive in. 1/ I ran int'l disaster response
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You hear a lot from certain people trying to say the pandemic's third wave is because of travel. So I went to the Ontario government's data portal to see where
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