Update from @CDCgov: No new coronavirus infections in the US.
@CDCgov Case total stands at 11 — but they're investigating more people, so standby.
They're sending 210 test kids to US domestic labs. Another 200 will be sent to international labs. Each kit can test around 700 patient samples.
@CDCgov (By kid in the last tweet... I meant kit.)
This means diagnostic capacity will improve here and abroad, says @DrNancyM_CDC.
So we may hear more from states about confirmed cases.
@CDCgov@DrNancyM_CDC Four more planes are carrying passengers from Wuhan back to the US. Planes will arrive in Sacramento Cali, San Diego, San Antonio Texas, and Omaha Nebraska.
CDC staff will screen, monitor, evaluate people before takeoff, during the flight. #coronavirus#2019n_CoV
@CDCgov@DrNancyM_CDC These passengers will be issued legal quarantine orders upon arrival at their designated quarantine location.
"This is the beginning of what could be a long response. Right now, we're aggressively intervening.." to prevent intro of the virus into the US, says @DrNancyM_CDC
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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.
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…
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.
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.
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.