NEW—76% of 1,733 #COVID19 patients diagnosed in #Wuhan had at least one symptom six months after symptom onset; fatigue or muscle weakness and sleep difficulties were the most common symptoms, followed by anxiety or depression. Read the full study: https://t.co/L3HrbimfJQ
I’ve written a lot in the last two weeks about #B117 and the uncertainty surrounding its exact effects.
So let me talk about something that we can be pretty certain about: what we should be doing.
New story is here: https://t.co/oZrKCnXX8u
Quick thread to come.
Japan has suffered just 18 covid deaths per million people, by far the lowest in the G7, without mass testing or strict lock downs https://t.co/WBtOCGdEyj
Creation of complex rules (with # of people, households, exceptions) varying by tiers has created a perverse system where people look for loopholes. Instead, focus on why this virus is risky, what we can all do to avoid getting it & passing it on & the underlying science.
It would be welcome news if Sweden’s deaths were not climbing following a rise in hospitalisations, but sadly that’s not the case
We know Sweden reports deaths differently to all other European countries; when you apply the same method, its latest daily figure is not 11, it’s 83
Remarkable effort in Slovakia - will be interesting to see results and impact on epidemic. Antigen tests obviously aren’t perfect, but in an epidemic don’t need perfect – just need to make a combination of ‘good enough’ measures work. https://t.co/P9F1UkbSFS
@PaulaGilovich Same here in Hong Kong. Only here population density is the second highest in the world. Much higher than Taiwan. Also HK airport is busier than JFK and HK is the third largest shipping port in the world. And infections are low because of masks.
@PaulaGilovich And a couple hundred thousands deaths too... And this is a person that looks at statistics for a living and he is certainly good at it and if that person says that the statistic evidence is strikingly high then I believe that.
@Benioff Here's an explainer post on the effects of COVID-19 on the brain. This post was written in collaboration with @fancycomma.
https://t.co/c3gjcP7I8F
COVID-19 is very different disease from the one we thought it was in March. We now know it is multi-systemic, and it might turn out to be able to cause damage in anyone infected, even if asymptomatic. Yet I see no shift in public health messaging and campaigns to acknowledge this