#Preparedness

I would very much like this to be true! But I'm not entirely persuaded that the data referenced in this article is robust enough to support the headline.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/schools-arent-superspreaders/6166
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We are facing two simultaneous and unprecedented threats to public health.One is #COVID19.The other is the President of the United States...THREAD We all know why #COVID19 is a huge
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Back in 2004 the @WHO @FAO and the @OIEAnimalHealth published a joint consultation on emerging zoonotic disease. #COVID19 fits that classification and there's something I have felt troubled by from
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A thread on @ArvindKejriwal's preparedness to tackle @coronavirus If corona virus cases rises and reaches to 30,000 in Delhi : 8,000 Hospital beds 12,000 patients will be accommodated in
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I’ve been excited to try these whiskies for years. But now they’re in the glass they’re also melancholic. They’re divisions and scorn and slung mud and intemperate rage in which
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What a juicy story the Telegraph have about GSK making vaccines for the government and a scientific advisor having GSK shares!Except...https://twitter.com/globalhlthtwit/status/1308885294721257474 The trouble is that GSK is not actually mak
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Gonna double down on how insane all of this is. To recap yesterday's discussion, there are two ways to think about China joining a multilateral arms control agreement with the
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A thread on the worse that is coming- only 20 ish days from now! #COVIDIndia is a humanitarian crises Daily deaths are best predictor of pandemic course & @IHME_UW estimates
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After a few sessions with @HEE_DigiReady over the past week reflective thoughtsDigital and automation are now shrinking the half-life of skills dramatically.Digital Health will fail unless we future-proof our people
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A lot of folks opining about how online classes are a way to save costs and that the pandemic represents a way to assess online learning. Neither of these is
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Join #OpenWHO: the free, open-access learning platform for health emergencies. Learn from public health experts about topics including #covid19, risk communication, #ebola, infection prevention & much more.Almost 1 million enrollments,
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Going to be reading more McMeekin Probably the best construction of WW1 that I have yet heard. McMeekin’s take on Russian border insecurity and insecurity as imperial growth as new
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Statement of Dr. Rick Bright: “Yesterday, I was removed from my positions as the Director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) and HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for
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If you can bear it, please read these four articles, published across 5 months, in sequence. They show how and why the total fiasco of the government's Covid-19 response unfolded.First:
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M.P is in complete chaos. @mohfw &  @ICMRDELHI are peddling fake studies to make the lockdown look successful. We have 23,000+ relief camps coz of it.273 dead. 7367 infected (as
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If there is any one thing to describe today’s speech of Hasan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of Hizbullah, is that it was one of national psychological preparedness; preparing the nation
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