#Outbreaks

Benjy Sarlin

BenjySarlin

This is my dad, Bob Sarlin.He lives in a NY nursing home where 200+ residents across 5 facilities have #COVIDー19.Staff get 1 N-95 mask a week, 1 gown a shift.

Laura Henderson

SixandLaura

1/ The k value, the dispersion of the R0 among cases, is low in SARS-cov-2, as it was in SARS 110-20% of cases cause 80-90% of new infections. *7/10 cases

NatSecAnswer Desk

NatSecAnswers

QUESTION: U.K. PM @BorisJohnson's #COVID19 battle raises a BIG question. How will it impact security for heads of state & diplomats? We asked @fred_burton, former Dep. Chief of counter-terrorism at

Kaila Ramsey

k_ramasaurus

.@dcpublicschools released its #ReopenStrong plan & nowhere does it talk about the critical need for COVID testing of all returning staff and students 1/26 This makes us one of the

Mary Ellen Klas

MaryEllenKlas

.GovRonDeSantis opens a Tallahassee #COVID19 event with White House advisor Scott Atlas who has supported the president's positions on masks and opening schools, quoted as saying "the disease is extremely

uphold shi zhiyong thought 🇨🇳 🐙

koaleszenz

the "herd immunity" threshold for COVID-19 is probably around 60% of the population. no country is anywhere near this."herd immunity" is not a magical concept. let's talk about what it

Clara Jeffery

ClaraJeffery

Trump not sticking to the script which is always when he goes bonkers."We have to get back to work" --uh oh Trump still promoting drug regimens we have no idea

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) Three months after reopening bars in the #pandemic, Premier François Legault is closing them again in the greater Montreal area and two other regions. He said he's doing so

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

Can we forecast the near future of the pandemic with data we have now? That’s the goal of this work led by @MauSantillana. The idea is simple;in pandemic activity will

Vijay Mahajan

thevijaymahajan

How #WHO and #China scr@wed the world1st cases of #COVID19 cases appeared in China in Nov-19. For atleast 6 weeks the local GOVT didn’t even recognise it.When people started dying

ARISE

ARISEHub

1/11 This World Mental Health Day let’s focus on the health care workers in our communities, clinics and hospitals whose wellbeing is so often taken for granted and overlooked. Read

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.26.20080911v3.full.pdfThe operational false positive rate of the widely used PCR test is so large that ALL the mass testing data since June should be flushed. Think of cities & areas

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

ReichlinMelnick

Extraordinarily troubling emails from GEO’s ICE detention center in Mesa Verde reveal that local ICE outright rejected the option of widespread COVID testing because they knew it would cause “housing

Ron Lin

ronlin

So why is California stuck in a stubborn plateau of coronavirus cases despite the stay-at-home order? Here are two reasons whyhttps://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-13/two-big-reasons-california-has-struggled-to-control-coronavirus Not only

James Fallows

JamesFallows

1/n Re-upping post, on two levels:-Back in 2004 I did Atlantic piece called “Blind Into Baghdad” https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/01/blind-into-baghdad/302860/Its point was that risks, consequences, and blowback of US &

Jesse Aaron Paul ☀

JesseAPaul

THREAD: About three weeks ago when we set out to investigate coronavirus-related deaths at Colorado nursing homes/senior care centers we weren't sure what we would find. But we quickly realized