#Outbreak

Jeevun Sandher

JeevunSandher

Around 2.4 million people including *more than half a million children* were unable to get the essentials needed to eat, stay dry, heat and clean their homes (before COVID-19)A on

Doctors w/o Borders

MSF_USA

Sexual and reproductive health care is often neglected in crisis situations.#COVID19 is no different. This pandemic is having disastrous secondary impacts on the lives of women and girls: THREADhttps://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-

Oliver Smith

ollysmithtravel

By adopting China's lockdowns, we copied a country that: - Is committing genocide- "Disappears" or imprisons journalists and activists, and harasses their families- Tortures animals- Executes more people than the

Alasdair Munro

apsmunro

New findings from Swiss seroprevalence and an good opportunity to learn some more infectious disease epidemiology!A similar prevalence in children aged 6 - 18 y (23%) than the adult population

Elamin Abdelmahmoud

elamin88

Mexico will stop sending temporary foreign workers to Canada amid COVID-19 outbreaks in farms. It's estimated 300 Mexicans working in Canada have COVID-19, and two of them have died.https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/mexico-pauses-t

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

Coverage of disease modelling tends to focuses on population-level 'what could happen next?' scenario analyses and predictions. So I wanted to highlight some early COVID-19 insights that you've probably heard

Kyle

DrKyle

What does a healthy, properly staffed & resourced, non-clusterfuck covid-19 testing and tracing system look like?Let me show you using this overlay of Saskatchewan's publicly available data up until a

Kate Allen

katecallen

ICYMI, public health officials fear community transmission of B.1.1.7 (the "UK variant") is underway in Ontario. I'll dissect each piece of worrying news from this story. Thread:https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/01/26/uk-v

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Huge: Masks LOWER SEVERITY of COVID too! Masks definitely reduce transmission, but scientist now think that MASKS CAN ALSO MAKE ILLNESS MILDER. How? masks may limit the dose of virus

Soumya

skarlamangla

California may look worse than Florida in terms of cases. But how much testing you do affects your case counts. If you don't test that many people, your case counts

Dr Ellie Murray

EpiEllie

I am so angry & sad & frustrated that we’ve wasted the summer pretending COVID was going away, instead of actually planning for fall. A couple days ago, I tweeted

AHR

ahopeross

1155 new Covid cases in AB10655 active cases 310 in hospital (26 more than yesterday) 58 in ICU11 new deaths Waiting for Hinshaw presser to start Hinshaw recognizes today as

Sam Bergman

violanorth

Getting a little fed up with people whose response to covid stats is to tweet angrily at arts groups to go 100% dark until every case of the virus has

Bear Braumoeller

Prof_BearB

It's interesting (and depressing) to grapple with the question of what America's response to the COVID-19 pandemic says about humans more generally. A few thoughts. (1/16) The received view of

simon maginn

simonmaginn

We're just over a year into Johnson's horrific clown-show. There's no real dispute: this is the most corrupt, most callous, most lethally dogmatic regime we've seen in recent times. It's

arkancide_is_real

Arkancideisreal

People, you took your eye off the ball. You had the information to tell you what was going on, but you let the #corporatemedia distract you.[A] It was a bioweapon,

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