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Here's how New Zealand eliminated #COVID19
new @NEJM nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
The pandemic only lasted 103 in New Zealand and it has now gone 100 days since without a single new case.
This paragraph is the key.
Science-based
Empathic leadership
United
Public Confidence
Adherence to burdensome-control measures
New Zealand is not alone in achieving elimination.
In this new @TheLancetInfDis essay, @anitah2 and Raina Macintyre discuss the prospects and whether it is possible more broadly
thelancet.com/journals/lanin… @sphcmunsw
To the responders who claim it's just that New Zealand is an island. Not true.
Estonia isn't. Thailand isn't. Uruguay isn't.
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I need to change the title of this piece from "Fast, Cheap [#COVID19] Tests Could Enable Safer Reopening"
Δ "Could" -> *Will*
science.sciencemag.org/content/369/65… @ScienceMagazine by @RobertFService
We need these now. For every household. It's the exit strategy from hibernation.
My table with some added info. Move from "infection" to "infectious". The latter is what we really need to know.
This requires validation and the @US_FDA needs to adopt a new standard, not PCR. Should have been completed months ago.
As emphasized in the text, the key besides speed is *frequency* of testing; multiple papers on that reviewed here.
I think the best is @DanLarremore's medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
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Nature can be beautiful but also evil.
It has brought us the worst pandemic in more than 100 years.
What is it about #SARSCoV2 that makes it so nefarious? 1/
As compared with SARS, this virus has a furin polybase site that when cleaved gives it enhanced tropism 2/x
nature.com/articles/s4159… @K_G_Andersen @NatureMedicine
science.sciencemag.org/content/369/65… @ScienceMagazine
This tropism translates to its ability to bind ACE2 wherever it is expressed in the body 3/x
embopress.org/doi/10.15252/m……
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A brilliant synthesis of pan-body data, by
@DrLindskog
and colleagues
@UU_University
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Why does the US need a national coordinated strategy to be effective against #COVID19?
Because the states are porous, there's major *spillover* and this new @PNASnews paper using mobility data quantifies it
pnas.org/content/early/…
Not the term "Loss of Anarchy"
The spillover states ranking
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