#Outbreaks

Leah Douglas

leahjdouglas

It’s my last day of work in 2020, and I want to share some highlights from a year of determined, often grueling reporting for @FERNnews that resulted in more than

Dr. Heref Oru (#SquidWhisperer)

Arfarfarf8

Short Thread Lets call a spade a spade. School is important. I want to see schools reopened also. But safely.But what's not being said enough, is that part of the

OR Health Authority

OHAOregon

From OHA State Health Officer Dr. Dean Sidelinger: " Our models told us we would see more infections, more hospitalizations and more deaths when we reopened – and that’s what

Elizabeth Stokoe 💙💙💙

LizStokoe

1. Why does @IndependentSage recommend maximizing remote learning at #Universities from the START of term? Does SAGE agree? Does the UK Government #FollowTheScience? And will Universities? 2. #IndependentSAGE agrees

Nick Selby

fuzztech

In 2017 or maybe early 2018, I was in a small conference with Rudy waxing philosophical about cyber. What's fascinating to me is that he makes a good point about

Carolyn Brost Strom

carolynstrom

Community transmission can happen quickly & impact multiple settings.* A recent outbreak on a teenage hockey team resulted in nine players & one coach testing positive. Multiple teams are currently self-isolating

Karam Bales

karamballes

1/ Thread: Taking a look at the Royal Society DELVE report on Balancing the Risks of Pupils Returning to Schools.Published 10th Julyhttps://rs-delve.github.io/reports/2020/07/24/balancing-the-risk-of-pupils-returning-to-schools.html 2/ The

Penny Sharpe

PennySharpemlc

This is what we learned at today's hearing: first the goods news, thousands of people have been assisted into temporary, social housing & private rentals. The homelessness sector deserves great

Phil Magness

PhilWMagness

Australia/New Zealand covid strategy:1. Make your island a fortress and lock everything down2. Declare victory over covid3. Covid returns4. Lockdown5. Declare victory over covid6. Covid returns7. Lockdown8. Declare victory over

Ravi Rannan-Eliya

ravirannaneliya

Back of the envelope calculation of the risk associated with this "tourist experiment" shows that it completely contradicts COVID vision of President @GotabayaR . Apologies for the long thread.1/8 2/8COVID-19

Dr. Deena Hinshaw

CMOH_Alberta

Here is a summary of today’s #COVID19AB update: Over the last 24 hours, we have ID’d 461 new cases & completed 12.3K+ tests. Our positivity rate stands at about 3.9%.

Seva

SevaUT

the debates over face masks remind me of the “debates” over seatbelts the 70s and 80s, especially the performative masculinity of risk acceptance here is a beautiful illustration from a

Barbara Larochelle

BarbLarochelle

Why doesn’t UCP get that if they, and their constituents really want kids back in school, they need to do more than just claim that their plan was ‘robust’ and

Shane Magee

MageeCBC

My story this morning on an acknowledgement more than a year in the making:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/legionnaires-disease-outbreak-organigram-1.5827097 A thread with some of the backstory. Getting to this point was the re

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

EVICTIONS led to huge #COVID19 outbreaks. End evictions ASAP!Study found that lifting state moratoriums & allowing eviction proceedings to continue caused as many as 433,700 excess cases and 10,700 additional

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

We need to give people the right *intuition* on how this pathogen transmits—including its airborne spread—along with the rules. The cut-offs (6 feet etc.) aren't binary and the mitigations stack

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