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The success of Japan with a *unique strategy*, emphasizing attention to super-spreader venues and the 3 C's (closed spaces, crowds, and close-contact settings). Little testing, no lockdown.https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/japan-e
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On the day that the United States reached the 100,000 death toll by @JHUSystems: All in < 90 days. (February 28th was the 1st)The country stands alone in the world
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The Pareto principle—80/20 rule—law of the vital few, is quickly getting backing for #SARSCoV2 transmissibility.3 preprints, using 3 different methods, different patient cohorts, show a small % of infections account
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Just published @TheLancet The largest study of hydroxychloroquine shows a significant increase in death (~35%) and >2-fold increase of serious heart arrhythmias. ~96,000 patients, ~15,000 on HCQ or CQ from
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The Remdesivir placebo-controlled randomized trial data.We've eagerly awaited the data; now published @NEJM https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa2007764?articleTools=trueSignificant benefit for 27% time to recovery, across all sub
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A note about the world's worst super-spreader events:3 of the worst were from churchesSouth Korea (Feb 9/16) >5,000 casesFrance (Feb 17) > 2,500 casesUS (March 10) 53 cases Here are
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Just out @TheLancet: The children with Kawasaki disease from #SARSCoV2A unique report from Italy comparing this to pre-#COVID19:the incidence has gone up 30-fold and it is more severe, with more
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It's important to acknowledge that #COVID19 is a new disease and we're still learning how best to treat it.Such as the threshold of using mechanical ventilators and tolerating low levels
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3 New reports that argue against the idea of sending the young, healthy to reopen the US1. Tomorrow's @nytimes headline story, by @PamBelluck https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/health/coronavirus-patient-ventilator.html?action=click&module=Sp
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In Scandinavia, Sweden's unique #COVID19 approach doesn't seem to be working very well. (A log-order increase in deaths, 7-day rolling average, compared with its neighbors.)@OurWorldInData Or, if you prefer, @jq1234t's
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1. Some hard facts to explain why Testing, testing, testing is not enoughIn our @RockefellerFdn action plan we called for 35 million tests/week, scaling up over the next 6 months
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Some new insights about presymptomatic and asymptomatic transition and timing in @NEJM report todayhttps://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa2008457?articleTools=true Asymptomatic #COVID19, the "Achilles' Heel of controlling the pandemic&qu
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