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1/5 #COVID19 outbreak control measures can slow spread, reduce peak impact on health system and give hospitals time to prepare/manage surge. It will take everyone working together to #FlattentheCurve.
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2/5 Here’s what we all need to do to #FlattentheCurve of #COVID19: Good hygiene practices - frequent #handwashing, #coughetiquette, #elbowsneeze, #Socialdistancing, #StayHomeIfSick. If sick, call ahead to be guided to appropriate care. #OutsmartEpidemics
3/5 #FlattentheCurve of #COVID19 by protecting those who are at high risk of severe outcomes, including older adults, those w/weakened immune system or w/ underlying medical condition(s). Protect yourself, protect others.
4/5 #FlattentheCurve #COVID19 by making a plan to ensure your loved ones have what they need to stay healthy. #StayHomeifSick avoid public spaces/transit, stay away from those at high risk if you are sick.
5/5 #Socialdistancing and other measures that public health officials are recommending now may seem extreme – but robust action now can help avert extreme pressure on our health system and across society. #FlattenTheCurve
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1/5 Today, my advice is to postpone or cancel all non-essential travel outside of 🇨🇦. This means reconsidering your vacations, sporting & entertainment events, large international conferences & other elective travel. #COVID19 #coronavirus #pandemic
2/5 Avoiding these potential exposure sites is especially important for older adults and people with underlying medical conditions who are at a higher risk of developing severe disease. #COVID19 #coronavirus #pandemic
3/5 In addition, it is particularly important for health care workers and others who come into close contact with these vulnerable persons to avoid travel outside of Canada. #COVID19 #coronavirus #pandemic
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Dr. Theresa Tam
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1/5 .@WHO has determined that #COVID19 now constitutes a pandemic. The assessment by @WHO is not unexpected. In Canada, our public health system is prepared. #coronavirus
2/5 #PHAC and #publichealth authorities across Canada have been working together to ensure that our #COVID19 preparedness and response measures are appropriate and adaptable, based on the latest science and the evolving situation. #coronavirus
3/5 Our #publichealth efforts will continue to focus on #COVID19 containment to delay community spread by rapidly identifying cases, meticulously finding close contacts and using tried and true public health measures. #coronavirus
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Dr. Theresa Tam
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1/5 #COVID19 Risk to Canadians: people over 65 years of age and people with a weakened immune system or underlying medical condition are at a higher risk of developing severe disease.
2/5 Avoid settings that can increase your risk of contracting #COVID19: heavily affected areas, cruise ships, international conferences & other large gatherings in enclosed spaces. Protect yourself, protect others. #coronavirus
3/5 The risk to Canadian travellers abroad will vary depending on the destination, as well as the person’s age and health status. Please consult the destination page on travel.gc.ca for the latest travel advice.

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The city of Wuhan, China, where #COVIDー19 started, waited weeks before acknowledging human-to-human transmission and taking measures to control it. Wuhan thus experienced an out-of-control epidemic that overwhelmed the health care system.
Other cities in China watched Wuhan’s experience and imposed strict controls at a much earlier stage in their epidemic: They closed schools, sharply limited social contact, and traced and isolated cases and contacts. These early interventions dramatically slowed transmission.
These experiences, & historical parallels, like 1918 flu, show early and sustained imposition of measures to limit social contact will slow the epidemic. This is desirable for many reasons — fewer total people get infected in a slowly moving epidemic... bostonglobe.com/2020/03/11/opi…
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Dr Sarah Taber
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This is missing from a lot of the "wow look at how authoritarianism let China stop COVID 😍" takes circulating rn.

It didn't STOP the disease. It paused it. That is very helpful. But it still comes back the minute life returns to normal.
We're well past the point where COVID can be stopped.

Most likely, everyone's going to get it. (Or 70-90% of us, & then herd immunity kicks in, or when there's a vaccine.)

It's about slowing its spread so folks who need hospitalization actually have beds available to help them.
Total lockdown is incredibly effective in the short term. In some locations, yes, that can be the right call to slow new infections down to where the health system can handle them.
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Gro-Tsen
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OK, I'd like to raise the point and ask questions about what I think are the two possible main strategies for dealing with an epidemic:
① stop it at all costs,
② slow it down but let it run its course until immunity makes it stabilizable.
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In a given population, the infection has a certain reproduction number. If that number is >1, it will tend to grow exponentially. Exponential growth cannot go on forever in a finite population: the reproduction number has to drop. But what causes it to? •2/32
Well, to lower the reproduction number, our two weapons are: how we behave, and our immunity. (Or death. Our three weapons are behavior, immunity, death; and ruthless efficiency… Never mind.) Let's assume people who were infected are made immune from the infection: … •3/32
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Marc Lipsitch
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In places with many known & suspected COVID cases it is getting really intense. Efforts to do contact tracing are overwhelming even the top health departments nytimes.com/2020/03/09/nyr…. At this stage it is wrongheaded to pour exponentially growing resources into this strategy.
It is unsustainable (effort grows with epidemic size). We need measures that while painful for all will slow social contact - cancelling public gatherings, paid sick leave, working from home, and the like. Social distancing is the general name for these interventions.
And we need to stop feeling sheepish about it and just realize that some places (Italy, Iran) are in crisis, and some are very likely in the days before crisis, a crisis that will be less bad if we slow down the virus. #flattenthecurve to reduce peak demand on health care
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NOW: @VP, @GovInslee speaking at Camp Murray. "Washington is on the front lines," says Pence when it comes to coronavirus. On $8.2B in funding passed by Congress, says it will be made available to state agencies, too #KOMONews
"The good news is that a vast majority who have contracted the coronavirus are recovering and doing well," adding "the risk of contracting remains low" #KOMONews
Pence says @CDCgov will have enough tests by end of the week to test 1.2 million Americans. By the end of next week, an additional 4 million. "American businesses are stepping up" in development of therapies, vaccine, supplies #KOMONews
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Mara Gottfried
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The St. Paul City Council is holding a budget committee meeting this morning with presentations from Police Chief Todd Axtell and Interim Fire Chief Butch Inks. Agenda here, including links to their prepared presentations: stpaul.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.…
City Council Member Rebecca Noecker, who is leading the meeting, gives the overview. Mayor Melvin Carter presented the proposed budget in August. The Council hears from departments to "establish the best budget possible" when they vote in December. They're not voting today.
There are community members here, but Noecker says this isn't a public meeting. She said she encourages people to listen and provide feedback to their Council members or Council as a whole.
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