#Outbreak

Social-distancing guidelines to stay 6 feet from others may be woefully inadequate, MIT associate professor Lydia Bourouiba warns — saying the coronavirus can travel 27 feet and linger for hours.https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/27638
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Hi folks, My sister+I are helping a group of tailors distribute homemade, double-layered, washable face masks made from 100% cotton (as recommended by the Min of Health+Family Welfare). These're available
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Let's have an educational moment real quickIf you read the replies, you'll notice people making fun of the Africans for not wanting aid from the 'humanitarian' workers.Let's take a detailed
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Comment se transmet le #SARS_COV_2 ? l explication purement droplets ne tient plus depuis un long moment, de multiples cas montrent qu il y a autre chose ; là une
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As people in the U.S. have moved inside because of coronavirus lockdowns, lives have moved online. But people are not doing all the same things as before. Here are several
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As cases surged this week, I asked more than half a dozen researchers (epidemiologists, virologists and psychologists) if the U.S. has lost its COVID-19 war and if widespread lockdowns are
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Had a very concerning chat with a hospital exec recently about preparedness for nCoV. US hospitals nowhere near ready for conditions like we're seeing in China. Neither are those in
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A quick thread looking at Germany's figures.A lot has been made of their ability to test, track and trace at the start of the outbreak - could that be why
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If coronavirus community transmission becomes as disruptive to everyday life as seems possible, Mitch McConnell will take to the podium to drawl, “My friends across the aisle want to engage
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Covid GA update June 27: 7-day rolling case average increases again to 1,597.The peak 7-day average during shelter-in-place was 866 on April 13. After re-opening, that peak was passed on
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I am regularly accused of being "partisan" - along with a lot of other things that, I suppose, are meant to hurt or offend me. I would like to explain
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We all know the saying... Fool me once shame on you. But fool me twice and it’s shame on who?Deja Vu Spanish Flu 1919 - 100 Years AgoA Thread First
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Our daily update is published. Some of the numbers are coming back up after the dip over the holiday weekend. States reported about 52K new cases today. 653K new tests
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1/ #Covid The very nasty #history of the ‘Ussens’ v ‘Themmuns’ over disease outbreaks - An aul historian wryly observed, “the increased movement of people across national borders/areas reinforced the
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We need to talk about how to take care of the people who have died from #coronavirus.Mass graves have quintupled in New York. In Madrid, a skating rink was used
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A very clarifying exchange. Portnoy (who had a viral anti-Fauci/anti-lockdown screed a few months ago) focuses on his day-trading profits.Trump agrees, says this is why he overrules Fauci.Our pandemic response
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