#Outbreak

Tom Hancock

hancocktom

UK confirmed coronavirus deaths (3,605) have overtaken China's confirmed deaths (3,332). A sad milestone.Both numbers are likely underestimates due to lack of testing in the early stages of the outbreak.

Charles Holmes

CharlesBHolmes

As an infectious diseases physician & someone who has practiced public health for the last 25 years, I'm appalled by @VP Pence's lack of respect for basic protective measures. This

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

This is a thread about how to interpret the seemingly sudden appearance of #COVID19 across the much of the US in the past week with some back-of-the-envelop calculations for number

Aaron Carr

aaronAcarr

The #1 densest city in America, New York City, has 475 times more COVID-19 deaths than San Francisco, the #2 densest city in America. Governor Cuomo's attack on density is

Stuart Neilson

StuartDNeilson

#StayAtHome this weekend, there have been 28 further deaths and 500 further cases of coronavirus in Ireland.The curve trending to a peak, but moving higher and over a longer

Mark Horsley

MarkHorsleyUK

THREAD : ALARM BELLS RINGING Some really worrying developments have taken place this week across Europe and in the UK. However the mainstream media don’t seem to be giving it

Chris Murphy

ChrisMurphyCT

Hey, short THREAD on Yemen developments. It's important.1/ Yemen confirmed its first case of COVID-19 Friday. This is really dangerous - half of their health care system has been destroyed

Susan Fillippeli

Fillise

For all of those saying that if we had begin social distancing in February, we would have prevented a widespread #coronavirus outbreak in the US. Hindsight is often 20/20, but

Micaela Connery

MicaelaConnery

Seeing news about #Covid19 running rampant through large group homes (+institutions) is devastating.+ fact that people with disabilities aren't getting access to the same testing and care is disturbing.+ we

Dr Eric Levi

DrEricLevi

Note about covid test.You can get tested on Monday. Be exposed to covid on Tuesday. Get a negative result on Wednesday. Go out to meet people on Thursday. Be mildly

Niall Conroy

NICU_doc_salone

The pandemic response in Ireland has understandably led to quite a bit of confusion and things are changing rapidly, from lockdowns to school closures. So I thought I’d write a

Drew Holden

DrewHolden360

I know a lot of people don’t think it’s a valuable exercise to discuss issues in how the media have covered #coronavirus, given the much larger importance of the outbreak

Ryan Cummings

Pol_Sec_Analyst

South Africa's relatively low number of #covid19 infection & mortality rates, is the only reason why there is debate regarding the merits of lockdown. Its initiation - as elsewhere -

Adam Townsend

adamscrabble

Flashback, 2009: Swine flu 'could kill millions unless rich nations give £900m'UN report says pandemic may result in anarchy unless western world pays for antiviral drugs and vaccineshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/20/swine-flu-cos

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

So it's 9/11. Hard to remember now how large the terrorist attack loomed in our national psyche; after all, in death toll Covid-19 is already the equivalent of 60 9/11s.

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) Is Quebec already on the verge of a second #COVID19 wave? On Monday, the Premier held a news conference to warn Quebecers to show more discipline as the number