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If you are making a break for other social media platforms, I am on Bluesky at @HelenBranswell.bsky.social and on mastadon at @[email protected]. And yes, they are pleasant places.
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦
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- Amazing! What South Korea is doing is really bending their #Covid19 epidemic curve. Only 131 new cases today, versus 909 on Feb. 29. It's not just China. This clearly can be done. cdc.go.kr/board/board.es…
- South Korea's success at battling back #Covid19 is extraordinary. Only 76 cases on March 14. Look at this curve. Amazing. Don't focus on the blue line. Look at the green bars.
- BREAKING: AstraZeneca's #Covid19 vaccine trials have been paused as the company investigates a serious adverse event the occurred in the UK. Not clear if the unexplained illness is linked to the vaccine, or what it was.
- If you have elderly people in your family or your acquaintance, teaching them how to Facetime, Skype or WhatsApp call — if they don't know how to already — would probably be a good thing. Social distancing is going to be very hard on the elderly.
- Odd threat, thinks every Canadian who doesn't face crippling debt when delivering a baby, or having heart surgery.Pence warns Alaska that if Graham-Cassidy fails, they could end up with the health-care of "a place called Canada": thestar.com/news/world/201…
- 1. China reported 0 — zero — domestically acquired cases of #Covid19 on March 18. The country reported 34 new cases, but they were all people infected abroad. As long as this virus circulates, China & other countries controlling will have to be on guard. nhc.gov.cn/yjb/s7860/2020…
- Absolutely devastating: A #Covid19 denier throws a family party — then watches Covid rip thru generations of his family & his in-laws.
- Replying to @HelenBranswell2. The J&J vaccine showed an 85% efficacy at protecting against severe #Covid19 — in multiple settings around the world, including in South Africa. It was 100% effective against hospitalization & deaths. This is important.
- I knew this wasn't good on Jan 2. I had no inkling that 2.5 months later whole countries would be on lockdown, the stock market would be cratering & we would be in an epoch shaping moment. #cravingboredomNot liking the look of this. scmp.com/news/china/pol…
- I think most people aren’t aware of the risk of systemic healthcare failure due to #COVID19 because they simply haven’t run the numbers yet. Let’s talk math. 1/n
- Warning to the people who yell at me to stop tweeting so much about #Covid19, because flu kills more people every years: Stop it. I will block you.
