#Outbreak

Tyson Foods suspends managers who wagered on how many workers would be infected w COVID-19 in an outbreak at its plant in Waterloo, Iowa. At least 5 of the plant's 2,800 employees
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CHINA OWES THE WORLD ONE ANSWERAfter the Wuhan outbreak, China stopped travel to rest of China BUT not to the rest of the world.WHY?Also:End of Dec, 2019China signed an OUTCLAUSE:
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Today I return to covering the coronavirus in Tennessee after a much-needed vacation. This thread is will recap major outbreak trends over the past 10 days or so, just in
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Thread 1/10On Friday, 22 May, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) released an advisory recommending the prophylactic use of hydroxychloroquine for healthcare workers who are most at risk of
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Orange County is different from LA in that its numbers have basically only been going in one direction since the pandemic started: uphttps://twitter.com/ThePinkDalek/status/1277041599403315201 Orange County's cases, hospitalizations and
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I know more about Singapore’s outbreak than the US’s. I know that 95% of yesterday’s cases there were in dormitory residents, and I know there have been an average of
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1) As the US nears 300,000 cases & surpasses 7000 deaths, I offer a chronological thread on Trump's lies & inaction on #coronavirus from January 22 to March 10 -
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This thread is stunning, and it checks out. You can read LA County's own data here. http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/coronavirus/locations.htmThe County has identified 204 "outbreak" locations.Restaurants only account fo
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MILAN, April 5 (Reuters) - It took Silvia Bertuletti 11 days of frantic phone calls to persuade a doctor to visit her 78-year-old father Alessandro, who was gripped by fever
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What happens when a population reaches herd immunity? Does it mean epidemics suddenly stop forever? Unfortunately not... 1/ The herd immunity threshold is when susceptibility is reduced to point where
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THREAD: complaints obtained by the Star show a farm at the centre of a massive COVID-19 outbreak had a history of complaints from migrant workers.Substandard housing was the most common
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Today, a Marshall plan for the recovery can only be financed by Europeans. We are our best/only line of defence. Relying on US or anyone else is not possible or
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Dr. Fauci in January: No problem & no worries here!Dr. Fauci in Feb: China?Dr. Fauci in March: National lockdown immediately or millions will die.Dr. Fauci in April: I don't know
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There is a print in a colleague’s office at @JHSPH_CHS commemorating the eradication of smallpox. It’s signed Never Again! I want us to say that about pandemics. And mean it.
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#ThreadMy brilliant friend @dudek_amanda is a post doc at Stanford. She has her PhD in Virology from Harvard.This is what she thinks is important to tell people right now: "There
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(THREAD OF FRAUD DURING COVID-19)Scammers exploit those afraid of the virus for their own economic gain, and they are using many different scams RIGHT NOW! Here’s a thread of the
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