#Outbreak

EVERY person in healthcare needs to advocate for: 1) Vaccinating undocumented immigrants 2) Vaccinating prisons 3) Vaccinating ICE detainees 4) Vaccinating large group home settings. UNDOCUMENTED immigrants are not just
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Making plans for Thanksgiving or the holiday season? Will multiple households or social bubbles come together? This paper presents a case study of transmission from an asymptomatic index case at
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At this time, the risk to Americans remains low, and we are working to keep it that way. We will continue our work to monitor, respond to, and mitigate the
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NEWS: In response to our story on Rick Snyder's role in #FlintWaterCrisis cover-up, House Oversight Cmt says:“We are closely monitoring the criminal investigation regarding former Gov. Snyder, and we will
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Contact tracing is important to dealing with covid, but isn’t a silver bullet. If you don’t believe me, check out what’s happening in South Korea. Their contact tracing really is
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1/ Update on COVID & Indoor Dining/Drinking Venues- Data on universal face coverings has grown and is stronghttps://bit.ly/3kFYmAQ -aerosol transmission occurs & risk in indoor environments close to 20-fold increaseBMJ https://
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After working in a nursing home with a #COVID outbreak in Northern New Brunswick for the past month I can finally say that actually, I do have a preferred nostril
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When I was in Australia in mid-2020, a number of people asked me if the Chinese were concealing a coronavirus outbreak. While I think the numbers around the initial outbreak
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Seems around 115,000 meat workers infected globally - 35% being USA alone, with Germany, Canada and Brazil accounting for another 35%.I know people view it as Ireland-specific but the problems
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Testing has been under strain this week to put it mildly. We went to a care home at the heart of an area battling a COVID outbreak. Surely if anyone’s
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It’s completely appropriate to feel a bit uneasy about the cluster in Croydon and the case in Katoomba, I’d by lying if I didn’t say it was concerning, especially as
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Scott Morrison is to blame for dividing the nation when the second wave hit in Victoria. Before that, the whole country was in this pandemic together. It was Morrison who
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Before I get back to work this evening, a caution: Experts tell us we have an extremely high likelihood of experiencing an explosion of COVID in late fall, winter. Our
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Outbreak of #B117 despite full vaccinations at a nursing home. 14 residents at a nursing home have tested positive for B117 variant, despite all having 2 doses of
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Allen Cheng is a deeply well intentioned expert. I respect his point of view but it’s a typical tightly defined risk averse response - a thread.https://twitter.com/peripatetical/status/1346036329931444224 Allen articulates a view
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One of the most upsetting CDC reports yet: Wedding leads to 177 Covid cases & 7 deaths among people who weren’t even there.Aug 7. Wedding w/55 guests in a Maine
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