#Outbreaks

BudgIT Nigeria

BudgITng

COVID19 apart, States are currently battling at least 1 of C.Meningitis, Monkeypox & 6 other deadly diseases.In 2019, all 36 states recorded 94,500 cases from these outbreaks.Ebonyi & Osun were

Jan Choutka

jan_choutka

As days get shorter, evenings longer, and the world in turmoil due to a pandemic, let me tell a sad and forgotten story. A tale of the early outbreaks of

Erin Kissane

kissane

Good morning. As far as we can tell from state + federal data, this is what's going on with the pandemic this week. https://covidtracking.com/analysis-updates/soaring-death-numbers-and-highly-regional-outbreaks-this-week-in-covid-19-dat

Alex Usher

AlexUsherHESA

1/ One thing people are finding it difficult to get their heads around in terms of pandemic statistics is the question of transmission statistics. Both "sides" (if you want to

Alicia Zhou

ay_zhou

1/ It’s been a big week in #covid19 news: Pfzier-BioNTech’s SARS-CoV-2 vaccine got the official FDA EUA green light and the first UK patients got vaccinated. Let’s break down what

U of T Public Health

UofT_dlsph

Only 10% of cases are linked to outbreaks.We can't make conclusions with the 90% We need to deal with the 90%. In LTC homes, one case is an outbreak but

Soumya

skarlamangla

So what happens when COVID is this widespread in LA? It spreads everywhere, making everything more dangerous.I looked at grocery stores, the most essential of businesses. Staff are falling sick

The New York Times

nytimes

The coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. right now rivals any in the world.It has been surging since mid-June, and the country’s rate of infection now puts it squarely in the

Joe Weisenthal

TheStalwart

WATCH THE DATA COMING OUT OF TEXASFor the @Markets newsletter, I wrote about some of the indicators coming out of Texas that suggest economic activity might be rolling over already

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

What happens when a population reaches herd immunity? Does it mean epidemics suddenly stop forever? Unfortunately not... 1/ The herd immunity threshold is when susceptibility is reduced to point where

Toronto Star

TorontoStar

The site of Toronto’s largest workplace outbreak does not provide workers with paid sick days — a protection the city’s medical officer has called “critical” to slow the spread of

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

1/ In Utah, Hispanic + nonwhite workers accounted for 73% of the #covid19 outbreak-associated cases but only represent 24% of workers across sectors.Their burden was 3x that of their White

Audi Kiskowski Byrne

a_haema

In local schools systems, we see the pattern that some schools will have a relatively large and dramatic outbreak. In one of these large outbreaks that make global news, fifteen

GEO at U-Michigan

geo3550

Great article by @ShawnHubler in the @nytimes about the situation at U-M this term. Some gaps here though - no mention of GEO's summer advocacy with allies, only a brief

Dr. Lisa Iannattone

lisa_iannattone

With the threat of VOCs looming, the question is what more can we do? A lot. And it all starts with 2 central concepts that haven't gotten the attention they

AG

AGHamilton29

If CNN doesn't understand the data, they shouldn't be reporting on it. There is so much wrong with this chart that it's hard to know where to begin.https://twitter.com/AZBrianAnderson/status/1277262549667377154 First, if

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