Profile picture
, 3 tweets, 1 min read
My Authors
Read all threads
What happened in Groningen? A virologist protected his region. “We just did it,” Friedrich recalled. “You save lives by doing diagnostics. Proper diagnostics, case tracing, information, is one of the strongest weapons we have to fight the virus." irishtimes.com/news/world/eur…
“Herd immunity can never be a public health strategy. It can never be controlled, and it means people will die, and if you are not very careful a lot of people will die,” Friedrich said.
“In other parts of the country where the numbers are still high, I suspect it is outbreaks in healthcare institutions and long-term care that are the major drivers of the epidemic.”
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh.

Enjoying this thread?

Keep Current with Anthony Costello

Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

Twitter may remove this content at anytime, convert it as a PDF, save and print for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video

1) Follow Thread Reader App on Twitter so you can easily mention us!

2) Go to a Twitter thread (series of Tweets by the same owner) and mention us with a keyword "unroll" @threadreaderapp unroll

You can practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @globalhlthtwit see all

Profile picture
Anthony Costello
@globalhlthtwit
An alternative, more effective and sustainable way to link contact tracing to primary care. (1)
In England there are 7435 practices with 54,000 GPs. If we have 5000 COVID19 patients per day after lockdown an average practice would see less than one case per day. (2)
Contact tracers cd be recruited through local authority public health teams and THREE tracers assigned to each practice (adjusting number for the practice size). They will chase the 10-20 contacts per case, and could help GPs with call and recall of cases. (3)
Read 9 tweets
Profile picture
Anthony Costello
@globalhlthtwit
Another remarkable fact about this mismanaged epidemic. Your personal doctor, your GP, is not able to order a test or home test for you. You have to go yourself through 111 or a website.
We have 61,000 GPs in this country. They are the backbone of our NHS. They know you, support you, can do your blood + swab tests, monitor you, refer you, notify public health about you. But they can't get a COVID test done in a pandemic because Deloitte have been given a contract
And naturally results are not sent to GPs, and lots of results go missing or arrive days later. Why have we set up a parallel service? Why contact tracing from call centres rather than locally linked to GPs and public health?
Read 4 tweets
Profile picture
Anthony Costello
@globalhlthtwit
Superb short editorial from Fiona Godlee, @fgodlee, Editor of the BMJ, about the UK crisis in test, trace, isolate policy. blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/05/01… (1)
"Much promised “ramping up” of testing has failed to deliver a workable system (doi:10.1136/bmj.m1922). Rules for who could be tested made no practical sense and, even with the help of misleading statistics (doi:10.1136/bmj.m1863), have failed to hide the extent of the gap... (2)
"..between what was needed and what could be achieved. Rather than build on existing locally integrated systems, testing has been contracted out to four large private “Lighthouse” laboratories. GPs and emergency departments can’t order tests.. (3)
Read 5 tweets

Embed code for your website

×
Follow Us on Twitter!

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3.00/month or $30.00/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!