#Transmission

Aaron 🇭🇰

tripperhead

Chief Executive, Carrie Lam:This morning, we called a special meeting. In the meeting we have amended Cap599 - one change for vaccines, and one change to extend quarantine up to

sai priya

priya_27_

Thread: Hinduphobic origins of the word ‘juggernaut’“Juggernaut” is the Anglicized name for the Hindu god Jagannath, the “Lord of the Universe.” “Juggernaut” entered English in the early 19th c. to

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

Covid Epi Weekly: Public Health Waking Up From Politics-Induced ComaCases, hospitalizations, deaths worsening. Vaccination coming - let’s make sure as many of us as possible live to see that day.

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

Maybe @WHO forgot, but in 2004, the intermediate host of SARS was found within a week of diagnosing an index patient. When you know what to look for, it doesn't

David Wallace-Wells

dwallacewells

“Pandemic anxiety has turned lately to the question of viral evolution—the possibility that the disease might be outracing our efforts to contain it.” Of all the new strains, the Brazilian

Drew Curtis

DrewCurtis

So here's a thread on how the next few weeks are going to play out... Here's where we are currently: there are an estimated three million -active- Covid cases in

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

"The number of reported cases of #COVID19 globally has now declined for the fifth consecutive week”, says @drtedros at @WHO presser. "The number of weekly reported cases has fallen by

Jonathan Engler 😀

jengleruk

As medics, we were trained to apply "precautionary principle" and "first do no harm". It's drilled into students constantly.It involves the recognition that every medical intervention has risks which need

Samrad Ghane

sam_ghane

Fortunately, this year had also other things to offer than a raging global pandemic. Here is my pick of the most interesting works in #CulturalPsychiatry and #GlobalMentalHealth in 2020 (thread

Marion Holman

holmanm

1/23 Thoughts on Covid Vaccine: First of all, up until this point there has never been a successful vaccine for coronaviruses in humans, due to a problem typical of coronavirus

Elizabeth Stokoe 💙💙💙

LizStokoe

Regarding the UK gov's new Covid campaign (“Act like you've got the virus”), I was asked on @SkyNews yesterday if “there is a problem with compliance now in terms of

Tim Lahey, MD, MMSc

TimLaheyMD

Key point re who is first for a #coronavirus #vaccine THERE IS NOT ONE LINE. This isn’t really a sequence.A THREAD #bioethics #justice #SDOH https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/health/covid-vaccine-first.html?referringSource=articleShare I

david friedberg

friedberg

there isn't a lot of transparency or accountability in the vax rollout at federal/state/local level, but the US does have enough vax doses to effectively end the pandemic in 45-60

Dr Clare Craig

ClareCraigPath

What’s going on with COVID testing in the UK? Here are the figures for the last two weeks https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/cases 1/24 They fell off a cliff because @PHE_UK introduced more stringent

Joseph Allen

j_g_allen

1/ *SPECIAL #COVID19 REPORT ON SCHOOLS*-->Schools for Health: Risk Reduction Strategies for Reopening SchoolsFor those serious about keeping kids and adults safe in schools, it's time to do the hard

BluntForceTruth

BluntForceTrut1

Elections have consequences Nashville is just the beginning. They want to chant defund the police well this is what you end up with. This IMHO was targeted at first responders.

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