#Outbreaks

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MattLaemon

The Spanish Flu of 1918 : A thread The Influenza pandemic of 1918 was a serious pandemic of influenza. It lasted for three years, from January 1918 to December 1920. About 500 million people were infected across

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

This nice piece by @carlzimmer lays out very clearly how our understanding of how #SARSCoV2 spread around the world and established itself in certain places is evolving (with all the

Nancy Pelosi

SpeakerPelosi

After six months and nearly 100,000 lives lost, the Trump Administration still does not have a serious plan for increasing testing to stop the spread of the virus. The Administration’s

Tom Wall

_tomwall

I spent last week talking to overcrowded families rightly terrified of explosive coronavirus outbreaks for @ObserverUK. Why isn't the gov taking up @GabrielScally suggestion to make empty hotel rooms available

Dr. J Robson

JenniferRobson8

Interesting summary of #COVID19 + school reopenings -- policy approaches and outcomes to date. Source: https://globalhealth.washington.edu/news/2020/07/13/how-reopen-schools-what-science-and-other-countries-teach-us-new-york-times-includes

Teacher's Manual

UnofficialOA

Hi @ShamezLadhani. Just wondering if you could point me to the study which concludes that teachers aren’t socially distancing outside school and transmitting the virus to pupils? The one in

Dr. Raphael Sharon

Dr_Raffi

Currently, there is no consensus or mandated law on wearing masks inside schools/classrooms around the world.While there is ongoing research on class sizes, it would seem important to mandate masks

Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne

jmcrookston

Canada, remember that the "experts" told you schools wouldn't lead to outbreaks.https://twitter.com/DrZoeHyde/status/1330177159210692610 Also, remember when the public health authorities tell you that they don't know where

Kevin Fenton

ProfKevinFenton

NEW!!—> £300 million additional funding for local authorities to support new test and trace service. Very pleased to see this investment into local authority public health capacity - a welcome

Phil Magness

PhilWMagness

If I were the parent of a college student right now, I'd advise them to withdraw for the semester, enroll for online Gen Ed credits at the local community college

German Lopez

germanrlopez

The weird thing about this question and this answer is the US is already doing more than 750,000 tests a week. Trump apparently has no idea what's going on with

Governor Tom Wolf

GovernorTomWolf

There’s no sense debating a ruling that will be appealed. Two of three federal judges upheld what we did.But what’s not up for debate is that our early and decisive

Clint Smith

ClintVSmith

what we never see from proponents of opening the border is any numbers. so, here we go.There's no point doing it unless it generates a lot of money/jobs.Let's say we

Jack Herrera

jherrerx

Looking over Biden's current list of transition plans, I don't see any planned action on ICE detention, the "Remain in Mexico" plan, or the CDC asylum ban. That could of

Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH

GYamey

The reopening of UK universities: THREAD.With a rising number of new daily infections, clearly there is a risk of clusters/outbreaks from reopening unis & bringing all students back to town

Kate Allen

katecallen

Province just emailed journos the evidence that the science advisory, modelling & public health measures tables presented to support the new closures & interventions announced today. I'll tweet all the