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COVID-19: Why I’m Very Concerned from Dr. Martin Makary: medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
"Further hindering public health efforts, the concept of American exceptionalism has morphed into a societal arrogance that somehow the immune systems of Americans are stronger than those of the Chinese."
"News networks should push aside legacy political commentators and put infectious diseases physicians on the air to warn the public about the pandemic."
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Kate Brannen
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When a Seattle flu study found #coronavirus in one of its samples, the message from the federal government (CDC & FDA) was:

“Stop testing.” nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/…
It's worth reading this story from beginning to end to understand the full picture of what happened.
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Kate Brannen
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Helpful interview. nytimes.com/2020/03/04/hea…
"If you look at the symptoms, 90 percent have fever, 70 percent have dry coughs, 30 percent have malaise, trouble breathing. Runny noses were only 4 percent."
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Kate Brannen
@K8brannen
A new email, obtained by @weareoversight, reveals what we knew to be true:

There was no policy review of the Ukraine funding taking place last summer.

That was the cover-up story.
As @publicintegrity's @rjsmithcpi reports, Pentagon lawyer Edwin S. Castle sent an email on Aug. 26 that said:

“Ma’am, I’ve learned that there is no ongoing interagency review process with respect to [Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative]." publicintegrity.org/national-secur…
You can read the email here: americanoversight.org/final-decision…
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Nick Boisvert
@nickjboisvert
A new case of #COVIDー19 in Toronto is conncted to a man who recently travelled from Las Vegas.
Medical officer of health Dr. Eileen de Villa says the man travelled on Toronto public transit after developing symtoms from March 2-4.
The man travelled between Bathurst and Islington Stations, de Villa says.
Says risk to public remains low.
"This information is being provided out of an abbubndance of caution."
The man also travelled on the 108N Mississauga MyWay bus. All travel took place shortly before 9 a.m. March 2,3 and 4.
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Ali
@aliostad
Day 8 of aggregating information on what goes on with #COVIDー19 in Iran.

Picking up from yesterday:

As stated before:

Finally authorities are putting Mazandaran province on quarantine: only fuel and food trucks are allowed. This late, its effectiveness will be limited.

The same authorities have had argued for quarantine to be "non-scientific" and "from middle ages".

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Tom Jesson
@thomas_jesson
Fantastic podcast on coronavirus #COVID - here are my notes, if helpful to anyone
Comparisons to other diseases:

Compared to SARS, MERS, coronavirus is "more transmissible... really unforgiving".

Compared to the flu - "I hear a lot of this, 'it's just like the flu' - it's 20x more deadly, from what we know right now"
The flu is, comparatively, "not that transmissible"... "for the flu you need close contact", which is defined as being within 6 feet for 10-15 mins.
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Ali
@aliostad
I gathered some alarming information on the rise of #COVID in Iran in this thread. I can see that it has been read by many hence increases my responsibility on what I share now.
As I stated before:

- I am not a trained reporter or journalist
- I am not based in Iran
- Not affiliated with any poilitical group, for or against the government
- Most of my information comes from the internet with occasional conversations with people in Iran
Today I shall try to gather information which I will share in the thread below.
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Abdul El-Sayed
@AbdulElSayed
Want to understand why we're dealing with the scepter of serious #Coronavirus #COVIDー19 outbreaks in the US?

The @realDonaldTrump admin's profound mismanagement.

A Thread:

The public health approach to stopping an infectious disease is about "contact tracing."

1/
Contact tracing is painstaking work. It involves identifying all of the known or potential contacts of someone who has the disease in question, finding them, and then isolating them--and then rinsing and repeating.

It's a serious test of your gov's abilities.

2/
It requires that:

1) Gov't is funded appropriately to do this work
2) Gov't employees trust higher-ups to give them bad news, rather than pretend that cases don't exist.
3) Ppl trust their gov't to protect them--and to share information with them

3/
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Alex Howard
@digiphile
1) Trump cut @WHNSC staff & programs for pandemic response created under Bush & @POTUS44: vox.com/2020/2/25/2115…
2) Trump focus on stock market has put public health at risk
3) Years of lies make this @POTUS not credible; need to have @CDCDirector @Surgeon_General inform public
4) @CDCgov says Americans should prepare for the spread of #coronavirus nbcnews.com/health/health-… “It’s not so much a question of if this will happen any more, but rather…of exactly when this will happen & how many people in this country will have severe illness”-@DrNancyM_CDC
This @WhiteHouse & @potus are putting out different messages on #coronavirus than @CDCgov: theverge.com/2020/2/25/2115… @larry_kudlow contradicted CDC today.

Every reason to expect Trump will double down, not admit fault, & overreact after gutting @WHNSC capacity for pandemics.
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