#Outbreaks

1) Three weeks into November, Quebec has so far declared 534 #COVID19 deaths for the month, greater than the total number of such fatalities in September and October combined. In
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How do housing markets respond to a major pandemic? In a new paper, Marc Francke and I study historical outbreaks of the plague and cholera to answer this question. TL;DR:
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Short thread on some of the available evidence re: restaurants, much of the best data comes from US, which have similar requirements for staff on masks and table layout to
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This is very true. Also, this can partly be addressed without necessarily identifying specific private locations, but by reporting occupation. Racial capitalism shapes risk, shown by race+income-disaggregated data. Cases and
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‘1 in 1,000 cases traced to outdoor transmission’ has now been reported around the world as research from IrelandTo correct record: this isn’t a research study & isn’t validHere’s why...
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What happens when a population reaches herd immunity? Does it mean epidemics suddenly stop forever? Unfortunately not... 1/ The herd immunity threshold is when susceptibility is reduced to point where
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1/ Another story about the importance of public data during a crisis: COVID-19 outbreaks at nursing homes raise questions about transparency, safety of elderly residents: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Nursing-hom
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A historical e.g. of how disease outbreaks combined with legal systems that exacerbate & produce social inequality impact marginalised populations. In records on people labelled “criminal tribes” in colonial India,
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County COVID update to begin at board meeting. Sup. Cox starts off expressing support for Public Health Officer Dr. Wilma Wooten, saying past meetings included public speakers making negative comments
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Germany joins China and Taiwan in concluding that COVID-19 rarely spreads through casual contact It spreads through repeated, large doses, such as you get while sheltering in place. Of course,
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NEW: Civil Rights Division alums tell me they’re really alarmed by what they see as DOJ’s political targeting of four Democratic governors:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coronavirus-doj-democratic-governors-cuomo-whitmer_n_5f46c038c5b6c
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The loss of liberty through Covid restrictions are so severe and harmful in themselves that they must be both necessary and readily understood by the public to have their consent
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesuss was a committee member of the Marxist/Leninist Tigray Peoples Liberation Front who as health minister the government failed to honestly and openly report several cholera outbreaks, despite
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1) Major #COVID19 outbreaks are erupting again in seniors’ residences — mostly in two regions of Quebec — as the province posted on Saturday its highest daily total of new
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Courtesy of @Healthline, here is an informative review of the worst epidemics in the US, from smallpox to typhoid Mary, polio and beyond. You might want to add something stiff
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This is what acting too late looks like. When Trump imposed travel bans on Europe, #covid19 was already deeply circulating in the US (mostly from European influx). His bans actually
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