Social distancer. Irish. Closely following the Covid19 pandemic in Ireland and around the world since Jan 2020.
Feb 23, 2020 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
THREAD - Update on #covid19#CoronavirusOutbreak#ireland We hope to hear conferences tomorrow from @WHO@HSELive with guidelines on where we go from here. Mass H2H transmission evident in many countries,including Italy. Italy was 1st country in Europe to close border w/China (1)
Why does Italy have so many cases and Ireland has none? Well Italy wisely began testing all pts presenting with flu like symptoms for #covid19, to see if evidence of H2H transmission, which they indeed did find. (2)