BREAKING—Twitter has now also slapped a warning ⛔️ label against Trump’s tweet for #COVID19 misinformation. Facebook just did as well this morning. #TrumpCovid19
HELL YEAH! The editors of NEJM (most prestigious medical journal in the world) has effing had it with the Trump WH destroying the CDC and FDA and muzzling the NIH. Basically @NEJM editorial gave the middle finger to Trump today. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
2) “Anyone else who recklessly squandered lives and money in this way would be suffering legal consequences. Our leaders have largely claimed immunity for their actions. But this election gives us the power to render judgment. Reasonable people will certainly disagree...”
3) “about the many political positions taken by candidates. But truth is neither liberal nor conservative. When it comes to the response to the largest public health crisis of our time, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent.”
Breaking—Wisconsin activates emergency field hospital, says healthcare systems are "beginning to become overwhelmed" as number of #COVID19 patients triples from 289 to 853 in one month content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WIGOV…
2) Solemn words by @GovEvers: “We hoped this day wouldn’t come, but unfortunately, Wisconsin is in a much different, more dire place today and our healthcare systems are beginning to become overwhelmed by the surge of COVID-19 cases,”
3) Gov. Evers. “This alternative care facility will take some of the pressure off our healthcare facilities while expanding the continuum of care for folks who have COVID-19. I want to thank the many frontline healthcare workers and first responders who are caring for our...”
“🇸🇪 authorities actively discouraged people from wearing masks, they said would spread panic, can provide a false sense of safety. Some doctors who insisted on wearing mask at work were reprimanded or fired.” 🧵 sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/i…
2) “Until last month, Sweden’s official policy stated people without obvious symptoms are very unlikely to spread the virus. So instead of being quarantined or asked to stay home, family, colleagues, & classmates of cases had to attend school & show up for work, unless symptoms.”
3) “Testing in Sweden still lags behind many other countries, and in many districts infected people are expected to notify their own contacts—in contrast to, say, Germany and Norway, where small armies of contact tracers help track down people who may have been exposed.”
📍TROUBLING. “Danny Altmann, professor of immunology at Imperial, guesses recovered patients from #COVID19 have perhaps 90% protection for a “fair while”. But how long? “I would bet my house on you being safe for possibly a year but not much longer” 🧵 theguardian.com/world/2020/oct…
2) “The problem is that whenever an immunologist says anything about Covid immunity to a journalist, it’s right for about two weeks and then it’s completely wrong.”
3) “It’s really hard to find a pattern right now,” said Akiko Iwasaki, @VirusesImmunity, a professor of immunobiology at Yale University who has been following cases of reinfection closely. “Essentially every case is different.”
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*2x military aides to DJT
K McEnany
K Leavitt
C Gilmartin
G Laurie
H Hicks
K Conway
C Christie
M Lee
T Tillis
R Johnson
R McDaniel
J Jenkins
B Stepien
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1x WH jr staffer
3x reporters
11x Ohio debate staff
2) The reason they are appearing now is the incubation period, typically 5-6 days but can be 2-14, up to 21 days.
(Note: 2 other WH residence staff tested positives weeks ago; Claudia C not a first degree exposure).
3) And indeed, you can be INFECTIOUS even before you either show symptoms or before you test positive, which has maximum test positive likelihood when you first show symptoms. But you can be contagious before before any of these.