Breaking: Singapore proposing social distancing measures in the wake of evidence of some community spread. Warns more stringent measures might be necessary. #2019n_CoV
Minister says: First, we will advise all event organisers to cancel or defer non-essential large-scale events. For those who wish to proceed, we will want them to take all necessary precautions....#2019n_CoV
Second, all employers and individuals should implement regular temperature-taking. They should be done at least twice daily. #2019n_CoV
Singapore: For schools, you have heard from the Director of Schools just now, how they will be suspending all inter-school activities and external activities.
And finally, for preschools and social/eldercare services, we will impose tighter controls on visitors #2019n_CoV
🚨 Can common infections cause psychiatric conditions in children? Yes.
A UK health minister Maria Caulfield told parliament on September 12th that the childhood condition PANDAS/PANS exists and is caused by infections. It will fund more research.🧵
Lack of recognition of PANDAS/PANS is a problem internationaly.
A new piece by me describes the growing consensus that the condition seems to be driven by an autoimmune reaction that targets regions of the brain
@DrChrisPitt @DAgalliu @More4Scienceeconomist.com/science-and-te…
Children that are healthy and developmentally on track suddenly start exhibiting OCD or other neuropsychiatric symptoms such as tics, anxiety, irritability and anger. It comes on quickly.
So one of the new narratives emerging is that @MichaelWorobey went on a media blitz to promote their version of events—in order to bolster the case for a zoonosis in Wuhan.
In other words it seems likely the team had hoped and planned to keep a media silence around this discussion of the new data—because it wasn’t theirs.
But as the group of people who knew about that meeting grew, it would have likely proven difficult to keep a lid on the story.
Let’s not fill the lack of information about the precise series of events with devious motives and narratives. I think much more will become clear when the Nature paper is published. And Worobey et al publish their report with their conclusions.
So @who weekly presser started and @tedros talking. Says data was uploaded in late January. Data not definitive answer to how pandemic began
@WHO@tedros This data should have been shared three years ago says @tedros. Calls on China to be transparent. Understanding how covid began moral and scientific imperative
The SAGO scientific advisory group at @who met last Tuesday says @DrTedros
Couple of interesting @Airfinity slides at the @IFPMA briefing earlier.
First one shows that if 50% of production is shifted to make a variant vaccine that there will be a three billion dose shortfall by the middle of 2022.
Why?
The reason is the overheads that accrue with switching from one vaccine to another on a production line. (Stop the line, clean it, restart it, get it inspected, and so on).
This is the first quantification I have seen of the hidden costs of moving to variant vaccines.
It is true we can design and make a novel variant vaccine in under 100 days. But making it at scale is a different challenge.
Of course, it can be done. But if you are going to do it, you have to make sure that the cost of switching (fewer doses) are worthwhile.