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Natalie E. Dean, PhD
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Japan is using big teams of public health nurses to perform "cluster busting" contact tracing. A thread summarizing their approach, as described in this translated (almost official) guidance document now
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Japan didn’t need to hire large teams of contact tracers. They were already in place. Nurses at their public health centers routinely contact community residents to provide health education and
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THINK LIKE AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST:What does it mean that the median age of new cases is dropping in some areas? I see three possible explanations, not all good. A thread on
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Why don't we have a vaccine for SARS? MERS? HIV? These viruses have been around longer than SARS-CoV-2. A mini-thread to provide some perspective and even a little dose of
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In our continuous search for metrics to track, I'd like to see more discussion of median age of new diagnoses. Lower median age suggests: (1) we are better protecting the
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Some thoughts:- It's still too early to measure the duration and frequency of long-term complications for a new virus, but early evidence suggests they could be important.https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/covid-19-coron
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