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"By..end of Feb..South Korea was making headlines..for..drive-through screening..and ability to test thousands..daily."
"Koreans have tested well over 290,000"
"New cases are falling off: 93..Wednesday, down from...909..earlier"

How Korea trounced US
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"South Korea’s swift action stands in stark contrast to what..transpired in..US"

"US, whose first case was detected..same day as South Korea’s, is not even close to meeting demand for testing"
FDA Commissioner Hahn (attempting to justify criminal negligence):

"There are..opportunities to learn from situations like this..But one thing I will stand firm on: We cannot compromise on..quality of..tests because what would be worse than no tests..is..inaccurate test results"
Hahn is the person who, at the direction of the White House and HHS, systematically blocked approval of WHO test, blocked purchase of commercial tests, and obstructed state/local/academic testing efforts.

(Appointed by Trump in Nov 2019...just in time to sabotage US response.)
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Richard H. Ebright
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CDC was aware of--but covered up--positive test results demonstrating local transmission of coronavirus in US.

How Cover-Up by CDC Set Back US Coronavirus Response
nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/…
"Dr. Helen Y. Chu, an infectious disease expert in Seattle,..had..way to monitor the region. For months, as part of..research project in..flu, she and..team of researchers had been collecting nasal swabs from residents experiencing symptoms throughout the Puget Sound region."
"To repurpose the tests for monitoring..coronavirus, they would need the support of..federal officials. But nearly everywhere Dr. Chu turned, officials repeatedly rejected..idea, interviews and emails show, even as weeks crawled by and outbreaks emerged..outside..China"
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Richard H. Ebright
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"The coronavirus almost certainly will begin spreading in communities in..US, and American[s] should begin preparations now, officials at..CDC said..Tuesday"
“It’s not so much of..question of if..but rather..question of..when"

nyti.ms/3c7X7rm
"Officials at..CDC..said they did not know whether spread of the disease to..US would be mild or severe. But Americans should be ready for..significant disruption"
"'We are asking..American public to prepare for..expectation..this might be bad'"
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Richard H. Ebright
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@WebMD_BrendaG Chinese official state media video of December 2019 shows Wuhan CDC staffer collecting novel bat coronaviruses with inadequate PPE (bare skin on face, bare skin on wrists, no googles, no faceshield).

thepaper.cn/newsDetail_for…
@WebMD_BrendaG Chinese official state media news report of May 2017 describes Wuhan CDC staffer collecting novel bat coronaviruses with no PPE ("forgot"), skin contact with bat urine, skin contact with bat blood, and self-quarantine.

xinhuanet.com/local/2017-05/…
@WebMD_BrendaG Bat coronaviruses at Wuhan CDC and Wuhan Institute of Virology were handled at BSL-2...instead of at the much higher biosafety levels required for safe culture, isolation, and animal-infection work with a virus having the transmission characteristics of the outbreak virus.
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Victoria Kim
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South Korea's increase in coronavirus infections appears to be stabilizing, as much as the outbreak is far from over. Central to S. Korea's response was a rapid scale-up of testing — which was under way weeks before the number of infections began spiking.

latimes.com/world-nation/s…
New infections by date are in green — after a peak in late February, newly reported cases have been just over 100 a day for most of this week.
It feels like a lifetime ago, but in mid-February, South Korea's president told business leaders the virus' threat would be over "before long." Sound familiar?

The difference: the country was quietly gearing up its testing capacity for the event of widespread community outbreak.
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IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING

Here is how China is doing with COVID-19
The headlines may seem dramatic . . .
. . . but actually the worst of the storm has passed by . . .
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GHoeberX
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🔎NEW #COVID19 ANALYSIS!
Today I came up with an idea to use existing data in a new way, and I'll start with my findings right away:

European countries are NOT detecting the vast majority of cases. The actual amount of cases in Europe is likely 3 to 7 times higher. I'll explain:
What I did is calculate the current ratios for South Korea, Italy, France and Spain, in three categories:
1) Confirmed cases (=people with #COVID19) / people on intensive care
2) People on intensive care with COVID / people who died due to COVID
3) Confirmed cases / COVID deaths
When visualizing the data in a 3D radar chart, it's easy to notice how the South Korean ratios which includes the amount of confirmed cases is way off, compared to Italy, France and Spain. The ratio of #COVID19 patients on intensive care/deaths is similar in all countries though.
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Cara TXZEAL
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🚨🦠📢😷South #Korea ROK 😷📢🦠🚨

Coronavirus alert level to RED

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2/24 new thread #Covid_19 #COVID19Korea

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ROK Tracker in next tweet. US Forces Korea
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World Health Organization (WHO)
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Daily media briefing on #COVID19 with @DrTedros pscp.tv/w/cR_p1DI2MTAy…
@DrTedros "As of 6am GVA time this morning, #China has reported a total of 75,567 cases of #COVID19 to WHO, including 2,239 deaths.

In the past 24 hours, 🇨🇳 has reported 892 new confirmed cases and 118 deaths"-@DrTedros #coronavirus
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Last week 🇨🇳 started reporting clinically-diagnosed cases, in addition to lab-confirmed cases. They have now switched back to reporting suspected & lab-confirmed cases"-@DrTedros
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Benoit Famaey
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New paper on the arxiv today with T. Haines, @elenadonghia , @cfl2126 & Lars Hernquist: we showed how the disequilibrium of a vertically perturbed disk affects our determination of the disk surface density with Jeans modelling arxiv.org/abs/1903.00607
Taking the 1st order moments of the collisionless Boltzmann eq leads to the Jeans eqs. Using the Jeans equation for vertical velocities of stars accross the Galactic disk in combination with the Poisson eq allows to determine the disk surface density as a function of height: nice
This method has been used countless times to determine the dynamical surface density of the Milky Way disk, and the associated density of dark matter in it. However, this is of course valid only at equilibrium
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