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"So-called lockdowns and the impact on global travel and trade have already taken such a heavy toll”, says @DrTedros at @WHO #covid19 presser. "The global economy is expected to contract
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#Covid19 numbers in Germany have been rising steadily for weeks (and recently particularly here in Berlin) and I get a lot of people/some media asking: So what? It’s just infections
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“No country can just pretend the pandemic is over”, says @drtedros at @WHO presser on #COVID19. "The reality is that this coronavirus spreads easily. It can be fatal to people
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THINK LIKE A SCIENCE JOURNALIST: I’ve been having many discussions recently about journalism and science journalism in this pandemic. One of my main points: Context is king, caveats are central.Few stories
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The depressing thing for anyone interested in rigorous science and evidence these days is that you are constantly cast as a pessimist who is holding up progress. The opposite is
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I’ve been following the research on experimental therapies to treat #covid19 from the beginning and in the last month the three biggest results came from just one trial: Recovery in
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This nice piece by @carlzimmer lays out very clearly how our understanding of how #SARSCoV2 spread around the world and established itself in certain places is evolving (with all the
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One of the things I love about my job is that I learn so many new things with every story. That was particularly true in my reporting for this story
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Another new and really interesting paper on #SarsCoV2 clusters and superspreading by @gmleunghku, @bencowling88 and others: “we estimated that approximately 20% of cases were responsible for 80% of all #SarsCoV2
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Promised to tweet out a few more thoughts from my reporting on #covid19 clustering and dispersion factor k. So here goes:https://twitter.com/kakape/status/1262876041237991424 Quick recap first: Reproduction number R is an average.
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This is a good example of what contact tracing might mean in a “new normal”: 29-year-old in S Korea tests positive Wednesday, turns out he went to three nightclubs in
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#covid19 presser @WHO starts with @DrTedros saying almost 2,5 million cases have now been reported to WHO and more than 160,000 deaths. "We see different trends in different regions and
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