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#1/ A thread of occasional news on #COVID19, snippets I think are important. #Health, #healthcare.
Patients presenting with digestive symptoms of COVID: not a small group, & clinically important differences to others:
drugtopics.com/latest/study-s…
#2/ #Health, #healthcare: the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Epidemiologie, = German Association For Epidemiology, has a good, long statement on #COVID19. Includes all sorts of useful modelling graphs. In German; later I will tweet snippets with translations
dgepi.de/assets/Stellun…
#3/ Important; #health, #healthcare; a French non-randomized clinical-trial study has found that a combination of #hydroxychloroquine (#Plaquenil) and #azithromycin works even better as a treatment of #COVID19 ::
mediterranee-infection.com/hydroxychloroq…
#4/ Looks like a fairly dramatic difference. Black = controls, Blue = #hydroxychloroquine (#Plaquenil) only, Green = #hydroxychloroquine + #azithromycin.
mediterranee-infection.com/hydroxychloroq…
and
mediterranee-infection.com/wp-content/upl…
#5/ Quite valid criticism of the above #hydroxychloroquine + #azithromycin French study in the podcast below — but with invalid conclusion & headline.
Podcast, in German: ndr.de/nachrichten/in…
you can find an English translation of the transcript here:
translate.google.com/translate?sl=a…
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Tim Skellett
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1/n Messaging from the UK government on how they will handle #COVID19 has been terrible. First, they miscommunicated their #herdimmunity strategy - which was flawed, in any case. Now they're saying their strategy was so flawed they're dropping it.
buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/co…
2/ #COVID19 does not behave like the flu. Flu-based models of harm mitigation don't fit it. As soon as #COVID19 gets over around 200 in a country, it moves too fast for only #herdimmunity strategies; cocooning AND building healthcare-for-surge are essential.
3/ yes well.
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This gives me ideas for an eventual #art/etc. campaign I want to undertake in my town

you know, I have absolutely no idea, but if you think Ray Bradbury's The Illuminated Man, imagine how many more stories, by several orders of magnitude, you could fit on a whale if a whale got tats.
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While 'video' in first tweet above is CGI, a similar effect could be achieved using drones like below, a 'body' with inner parafoils made from rip-stop nylon, & a glorified hairdryer to fill out the 'body' with warm air. Problem would be overhead lines

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Tim Skellett
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But now, onto my own personal summation of this all. The @Guardian, it is THE paper and site that gives most national (UK) and international (USA, Australia, the damned world) to coverage of issues like poverty, class. It has worldclass investigative #journalism. But.....
... but I admit to being more than fully cheesed off with the Guardian myself. I was a loyal funder, around 60 quid a month, I stopped completely, because the Guardian's new policies were so idiotic and off-putting, not to mention counter-productive.
But! ....
But, bluntly, the @Guardian still is THE major newspaper in the UK, the USA or Australia, to give a very wide range of opinion from the public, & to also give reasonably trustworthy investigative #journalism.
I refuse to contribute money, but it's still very much my first go-to.
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#THREAD Re: The Announcement for #COVID-19 Relief for Homeowners and Renters – What Does it Mean? What are the programs? Do they apply to you? What do you need to do now?
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This week I looked at the Rule of Halves, what it means, and the first step to fixing our problems with chronic disease #epitwitter #health #healthcare link.medium.com/tdVlQTi9VW
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#Thread 1/ Today's a day when I think a lot of people are going to be discussing and critiquing #journalism Since I've been teaching the subject for quite some time now, here's some things I tell my students about their relationships to public officials.
2/ The first rule of #journalism, even in the @spj_tweets code of ethics, is to "seek truth and report it." Sources of truth don't always want it shared. Everyone wants to look good, and when people have chosen to do bad things, they don't want you to expose them.
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