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Julia Belluz Profile picture
@juliaoftoronto
Jan 31, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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… Image

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Nov 21, 2022
Thread 🧵

So what causes #obesity ?

I recently attended a meeting in London @royalsociety about this deceptively simple question.

And what was the conclusion? “There’s no consensus whatsoever about what the cause of it‌ is," as @JohnSpeakman4 put it.
Over 3 days, some of the world's top obesity researchers gathered to present their hypotheses explaining a global uptick in obesity rates that began in the 1980s.

Their ideas were bewilderingly diverse:
.@eatlikeanimals said all the carbs and fat we now eat drown out the protein our bodies need, driving us to eat too many calories;
@davidludwigmd singled out carbs,
while @HermanPontzer pointed out many traditional societies heavily subsisted on carbs and were nonetheless lean.
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Nov 19, 2021
Austria — with the 2nd highest #covid19 case rate in the world right now — will go into another nationwide lockdown starting Monday, plus compulsory vaccination starting next year. So how did this happen?
bbc.com/news/world-eur…
Not sure we fully understand the causes yet but one big one seems to be the low rate of vaccination here, among the lowest in Western Europe. ft.com/content/f04ac6…
The drivers of vaccine hesitancy are multi-faceted and diverse here, as they are everywhere, but one interesting factor is the enduring influence of Rudolph Steiner and anthroposophical medicine on the population in German-speaking countries... plus.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/n…
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Jun 23, 2021
We talk a lot about the toll the health system takes on patients but we talk way too little about its impact on doctors.

One of those was Dr. Scott Jolley. It is with a very heavy heart that I share this @voxdotcom report about him.

A🧵...

vox.com/22439911/docto…
Dr. Jolley, father of three, husband, friend to many, avid fly fisherman, was based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He worked as an emergency room MD for nearly 30 years. He loved helping his patients — or really, anybody. That's why his friends called him "the Patriarch."
But as he settled into his 50s a few years back, the chaos & pressure of emergency medicine started wearing on him.

He began to think about retirement and asked his supervisors for ways to wind down, a lighter work schedule. They failed to come up with solutions.
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Apr 23, 2021
Before #COVID19, the thinking in global health was that travel measures carried harms for little benefit.

Then the pandemic happened and turned that upside down. Why? I took a look at Vietnam, a country of 97 million with 2700 Covid cases & 35 deaths 🧵
vox.com/22346085/covid…
For context, lots of countries did travel measures - they were the 2nd most common policy govs adopted when the pandemic took hold - so what was diff about Vietnam? nature.com/articles/s4156…
Well, it's almost impossible to go there now. Since last March, they've cancelled commercial flights for months on end. Ltd travel resumed but mostly for experts/biz people, only from select countries. You need gov permission to enter & 2 weeks of state-monitored quarantine.
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Feb 24, 2021
*New from me* Of all the people I talk to on #covid19 vaccines, @hildabast is consistently the most insightful and correct.

In our conversation here, you can see why I think she's become a @zeynep of the pandemic vaccines:

vox.com/22285256/covid…
From noting that Pfizer/BioNTech was the vaccine group to watch when a ton of focus was on AstraZeneca, to being early to point out problems in the AstraZeneca trials & drawing attention to the more severe side effects Covid-19 vaccines can cause -- she's called a lot right.
This foresight has come from her obsessive tracking of the global Covid-19 race since last March — from preprints to clinical trial registries, press releases, and news. And instead of focusing on Euro-America, she's taken on the whole world.
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Feb 16, 2021
What should we learn from the nearly 500,000 US #covid19 deaths to date?

@zhoyoyo and I teamed up for a deep dive into the data.

The big takeaway: the virus spared no one — no community, no age cohort, no part of the country. 🧵1/11

vox.com/22252693/covid…
At the same time, some groups have been hit way harder than others.

At the start of the pandemic, a trend emerged that's held: people of color of overrepresented in both US #covid19 cases and deaths.
As if that weren't bad enough: people of color are also more likely to die young from #covid19 compared to white people:
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