#Cases

The New York Times

nytimes

The coronavirus toll keeps mounting: More than 1.7 million people in the U.S. have contracted the virus and more than 100,000 have died. The virus continues to spread widely in

Kyle Whitmire

WarOnDumb

Just wrapped up a long, productive call with @ALPublicHealth that gave us more clarity of this issue. (1/5)https://twitter.com/BamaTracker/status/1299112228218712066 Probably the most important takeaway for me was "probable" cases

Faisal Islam

faisalislam

Taiwan, closest neighbouring country to Wuhan, free of local transmission for 200 days with growing economy in 2020, thanks to - world class test & trace averaging 20-30 contacts per

Joe Hasell

JoeHasell

Where testing is limited, confirmed cases are limited.The number of tests per confirmed case can give us an indication of how much trust we can place on confirmed cases in

Seth Kaplan

Seth_Kaplan

MDH will no longer report raw numbers of current hospitalizations & current ICU cases. Only new admissions.This means we can no longer report positive news of ICU cases declining or

Haris Gazdar

HarisGazdar

How SMART are we? With all this talk of smart versus dumb lockdowns here is a sobering thought. What we know about the spread of the disease is from tests

Malgorzata (Gosia) Gasperowicz

GosiaGasperoPhD

AB doubling time is 2.5 weeks.It seems to be über-exponentialthe doubling time shortens with time.At this rate we will have:Nov 11, 1000+ daily new casesNov 28, 2000+ daily new casesDec

Mitch Smith

MitchKSmith

The public health department in Arkansas, a state with 3 million residents, says it can’t release the counties where coronavirus patients are dying because of “privacy concerns." We're still doing

Peter Castleden

peter_castleden

On 17 August Prof Karim was on ENCA talking about the potential impact of moving to level 2 lockdown. He set the scene for second wave fears:"We expect that there

James Wilson

jamewils

Cases Surged, As Govt Ignored Scientific Advice On Lifting LockdownI don't have any access to ICMR like @nit_set, he is a wonderful journalist. But with my logical reasoning I asked

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

Good morning.Our testing czar says our testing levels are "sufficient".That declining testing is not a problem -- because cases are declining.Seems reasonable, right?Actually, no. The data tells us a different,

Joey Palacios 😷

Joeycules

1/ Thread: San Antonio Metro Health will separate confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases. Probable cases are from antigen tests, however, San Antonio Metro Health says the cases are indeed positive

Patrick Chovanec

prchovanec

Sweden has now passed Switzerland (which saw a severe early outbreak along its border area with northern Italy) in both total coronavirus deaths and death rate per million. It also

Patrick Chovanec

prchovanec

The US reported +890 new coronavirus deaths today, bringing the total to 134,862. It's hard to say based on two days of data, but we *might* be seeing an inflection

Reuben Rodriguez

ReubenR80027912

The most important part of Covid (and most vexing) is this: what is the IFR? CFR measures recorded cases but what everyone wants to know is how likely are they

Charles #GetCovered-ba

charles_gaba

One grim way to look at the mortality rate: Due to incubation + hospitalization + ICU/ventilator period, divide the death toll *today* into the number of positive cases *10 days