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Health journalist working on nutrition, metabolism & obesity book Former @voxdotcom, @MIT Knight Fellow etc. @juliaoftoronto@masto.ai & juliabelluz@bsky.social

Jan 31, 2020, 5 tweets

As of this morning,

- 9,776 cases of #2019nCoV #coronarovirus
- 9,658 in mainland China

So *99 percent* of cases are in mainland China.

- 213 deaths; 187 people recovered...

gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashbo…

The list of countries with cases grows: India, Italy, Finland...

The case in Kerala, India, reported yesterday, is most worrisome. Don't want a big outbreak in another densely packed country of 1.3 billion...

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/indias-1…

Some good news about that case, a young woman who was studying in Wuhan: she's in stable condition, recovering.

Along with some friends from Wuhan, she went to the hospital to report her symptoms and travel history.

No one else diagnosed yet....

Like many exported cases, sounds like she's got mild disease.

For more on that, check out new @NEJM on German cluster.

"All four patients who were seen in Munich have had mild cases and were hospitalized primarily for public health purposes"

nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

@NEJM The NEJM paper documents the first example of what seems like asymptomatic person to person spread.

Suggests the virus could be spreading before people know they're sick.

Let's wait to see what that means, though. As @BogochIsaac said:

vox.com/2020/1/29/2111…

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