#Physicaldistancing

Christopher A. Longhurst

1/ COVID (@UCSanDiego) Chronicles April 11th - 21 total inpatients with one more ventilated than yesterday (9 total). @UCSDHealth tested 171 patients on Friday and just 2 returned positive (1.2%).

Kai Kupferschmidt

#covid19 presser @WHO starts with @DrTedros saying some countries are considering when to lift #physicaldistancing measures and others when to introduce them. Both decisions must be "guided by what we

Taylor Nichols, MD

Nationally, the current doubling time for the spread of the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is 3 days. However, with strict physical distancing measures in effect in the Bay

The CHC will be sharing #healthcomm materials we're finding in use around the country regarding #COVID19.@UTexasMoody @DellMedSchool @BMore_Healthy's simple, effective message about #socialdistancing. Picking relevant icons or images to suppo

1) Montreal posted a daily average of 30 #COVID cases since Thursday despite Quebec falling to fourth place among provinces in the number of screening tests it conducts. In this

1) Quebec crossed a sombre milestone Thursday, declaring more than 6,000 deaths in the #pandemic, 15 more than all of Sweden, a nation with a population that is 1.7 million

Ahmed Al-Jaishi, #Epidemiologist

Ontario introduced #SocialCircles allowing up to 10 ppl to interact, without #PhysicalDistancing. The number of ppl you interact with matters and here’s why you should limit yourself to one circle@picardonhealth@jkwan_md@DFisman@imgrund@s

1) When Quebec’s top public health officer announced a ramp-up in #COVID testing, he predicted an inevitable increase in cases. However, the opposite has occurred in Montreal in the past

1) Montreal’s emergency rooms, overcrowded again, have become breeding grounds for the highly contagious #coronavirus as ER staff find it harder to keep hot zones separate from cold zones amid

Here is a longer thread on why @RothmanLinda and I have been pushing for motor vehicle lane (moving or parking) closures during COVID-19 to facilitate #physicaldistancing for people who rely

1) The Résidence Herron nursing home, where staff deserted the elderly occupants early in the #pandemic last March, went into lockdown again Sunday after an employee tested positive for #COVID19.

1) Montreal posted 29 new #COVID cases Tuesday even though Quebec is screening far fewer people for the #pandemic illness. In contrast, Toronto recorded five cases as Ontario tests three

We NEED to talk #VENTILATION in #Backtoschool & #UnsafeSeptember. In the absence of true source control (Transmission prevention, Step1: don’t let a pathogen in the building); and also in the

1) Quebec now appears to be at a worrying turning point in the #pandemic, with #COVID19 outbreaks fast occurring in multiple settings, with clusters of cases causing other flare-ups in

1) On Saturday, Premier François Legault delivered horrific news: 31 residents of the privately run Herron long-term care centre had died during the #COVID19 pandemic. In this thread, I will

Sheila Colla, Ph.D

I keep hearing reference to planting Victory gardens. I'm not a historian (check out @Ian_Mosby's amazing work) but it seems to me like something different is needed during this pandemic.