#Outbreaks

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) The #pandemic in Montreal has begun to spread from long-term care centres and seniors’ residences into acute-care hospitals as the city reported its second biggest single-day increase in #COVID

Chris Hayes

chrislhayes

Back in mid to late February when I started closely following Covid19 news and talking to epidemiologists and public health experts, I quickly noticed a huge gap between their level

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

Herd immunity is back. This article quotes its proponents, and then yours truly and @gregggonsalves on why in the absence of a clear way to protect the vulnerable from a

André Picard

picardonhealth

Outbreaks at seniors’ homes linked to almost half of #COVID19 deaths in Canada, @CPHO_Canada says, as Ottawa introduces new guidelines, by @carlyweeks @jillsmahoney @l_stone @TuThanhHa https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-outbreaks-at-seni

Charles Duhigg

cduhigg

For the last month, I’ve been trying to figure out why New York and Seattle fared so different in the pandemic. The result came out today in @NewYorker:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/04/seattles-leaders-let-scientists-take-the-lead-new-yo

Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne

jmcrookston

From 1979The coronaviruses are transmitted by the respiratory route. It has been possible artificially to induce infection in human volunteers by inoculating virus into the nose (7, 59). No other

Ryan Imgrund

imgrund

What do I think of the Sick Kids recommendations on how to re-open Ontario schools amidst COVID-19?I’ve got an opinion on it.COVID-19 SCHOOL RE-OPENINGS. A THREAD. ... by an ONTARIO

Dr. Tara C. Smith

aetiology

I wrote about the pending epidemic in rural America back in May. I think it's safe to say it's now here; a thread.https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-05-06/pandemic-will-soon-test-rural-america An enormous chu

Jimmy Scroggins

JimmyScroggins

THREAD on Church Leadership & Coronapocalypse: 1. As far as I can tell the “flatten the curve” strategy will require social distancing at near-current levels until there is a

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

(1/3) Important study finding infectious virus (not just viral RNA) in the air >=2m away from a #COVID19 patient.Virus was successfully cultured from air samples, and was shown to match

Tory Fibs

ToryFibs

Italian Paediatric Hospital saw 3000% increase in Kawasaki disease among children during Coronavirus a new study in The Lancet has just revealed.Hundreds of these cases are now occurring in children

David Eggert

DavidEggert00

NEWS: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer urges a 2-week suspension of in-person high school classes, all youth sports & indoor restaurant dining. She stops short of ordering restrictions, instead asking for voluntary

Samantha Walton

samlwalton

just thinking about how all summer UCU & academics were saying we shouldn't bring 1mil students to campus & we were told we weren't putting student mental health first &

Grieve Chelwa

gchelwa

This #COVID19 crisis is once again showing us how important it is to democratize & diversify the editorial boards of “top” scholarly journals. The African continent has been battling outbreaks

Prof. Devi Sridhar

devisridhar

Countries have few choices bc can't stay in lockdown much longer:1. Eliminate with border screenings (islands);2. Let it go & hope to build up immunity (takes months as shown by

Nathan Stall

NathanStall

As the second wave of #COVID19 intensifies, I am deeply concerned about Ontario's #LTC homes.There are now 20 homes with outbreaks (https://www.ontario.ca/page/how-ontario-is-responding-covid-19), including Ottawa’s Extendicare West E