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Daily @WHO presser on #COVID19 starts with update of the numbers (as of 6 am Geneva time).

China:
74675 cases, 2121 deaths

Outside China:
1076 cases in 26 countries, 7 deaths
@WHO Data from China continues to show a decline in confirmed new cases, says @DrTedros. Says WHO is “encouraged” by the trend, but no time for complacency. (I would add that the situation outside China looks more concerning by the day.)
@WHO @DrTedros More than half the #COVID19 cases outside China are passengers from #DiamondPrincess, @DrTedros points out. First passengers have disembarked, he says (if: negative test, no symptoms and no contact with confirmed case in past 14 days).
@WHO @DrTedros Preliminary results of two clinical trials of therapeutics should be available in 3 weeks, says @DrTedros. One is combination of HIV drugs lopinavir and ritonavir. The other is remdesivir.
@WHO @DrTedros .@DrTedros says @WHO is still not getting the money it needs. “Considering the urgency and considering that we are fighting with a very dangerous enemy we are surprised” Calls on international community to better fund WHO’s fight against #COVID19.
@WHO @DrTedros Sorry to say that was a really unproductive press conference. There was hardly any concrete information, also not the best questions. And at a moment that feels like a crucial point in this epidemic. Frustrating! Curious if you agree @HelenBranswell. Made me miss @DrMikeRyan
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After results this week from @boulware_dr showing no benefit from hydroxychloroquine given as post-exposure prophylaxis, now similarly disappointing results from UK’s Recovery trial using it for treatment and the drug has been pulled from that trial.
bbc.com/news/health-52…
@boulware_dr Question now is how other ongoing trials (like @WHO’s Solidarity trials) will react. But it sure looks like we are getting very close to the end of the hydroxychloroquine saga. Here’s hoping it will free up researchers to concentrate on more promising drugs.
@boulware_dr @WHO In a statement the chief investigators of the Recovery trial said 1542 patients had been randomized to hydroxychloroquine in the trial. They compared their outcomes with those of 3132 patients randomised to usual care alone. They found:
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“WHO is continuing to respond to the new #Ebola outbreak in the city of Mbandaka”, says @DrTedros at start of regular #covid19 presser at @WHO. 8 cases have been detected, 4 of them have died. Today, close to 50 responders and 3600 doses of #Ebola vaccine arrived in Mbandaka.
@DrTedros @WHO Latest #Ebola case attended the burial of the first case, but was detected in Bikoro, a town 150 km from Mbandaka, says @drtedros. "This means that two health zones are now affected.” Virus is being sequenced to find out whether there is a link to previous outbreak.
@DrTedros @WHO "More than 100,000 cases of #Covid19 have been reported to WHO for each of the past 5 days”, says @drtedros. "We are especially worried about Central and South America, where many countries are witnessing accelerating epidemic.”
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„Each violation of our Constitution and our civic peace gets absorbed, rationalized, and accepted by people who once upon a time knew better“. Read this smart piece by @anneapplebaum about the „collaborationisms“ we are witnessing in the US. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
The piece is powerful because it dissects the part of Trumpism that has most shocked and vexed me and many of my colleagues and friends: Why do people who know better and who have little to fear enable, aide and abet him?
One of the saddest, most infuriating things about reporting on this pandemic has been watching country after country fail to learn: from experts, from the past, from each other. Watching US politics and reading this piece makes me feel something very similar.
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