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#COVID19 Esperti vs Politici (tutti) il mondo non cambia! Thread da Giuseppe Prezzolini: Vita di Nicolò Machiavelli fiorentino, 1926, 1/4#COVID19 “Così capita spesso nella storia dei popoli: c’è un savio, e i mediocri lo chiamano pazzo, e si reputano savi perché mediocri” 2/4
#Covid_19 is not a pandemic: it's a syndemic characterised by biological and social interactions between conditions and states. A syndemic is not merely a comorbidity by @richardhorton1@TheLancetthelancet.com/journals/lance…@drsilenzi@dr_enricorosso@LeadMedIt@raffaelebruno
The most important consequence of seeing COVID-19 as a syndemic is to underline its social origins. "“A syndemic approach provides a very different orientation to clinical medicine and public health..." (Singer et Al., 2017)
Jul 30, 2020 • 4 tweets • 5 min read
Auger et al. estimate: school closure may have been associated with 1.37 million fewer cases of #COVID__19 over a 26-day period and 40 600 fewer deaths over a 16-day period during the spring of 2020 bit.ly/3jYexdY@drsilenzi@dr_enricorosso@SItI_leadership@LeadMedIt
Reopening K-12 Schools During the #COVIDー19 Pandemic
A Report From the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine bit.ly/3fctCF3 "weighing the public health risks of opening against the educational and other risks of keeping buildings closed" @drsilenzi
Ten reasons why immunity passports are a bad idea go.nature.com/2LSTOs7 Restricting movement on the basis of biology threatens freedom, fairness and
public health @WRicciardi@drsilenzi@Nemomnis@waltermazzucco@MRGualano@LeadMedIt@EUPHActs@HTAiOrg@aringherosse
Four huge practical problems add up to one very bad idea: 1) COVID-19 immunity is a mystery, 2) Serological tests are unreliable, 3) The volume of testing needed is unfeasible, 4) Too few survivors to boost the economy