China's daily #Covid19 increase for 3/3/20 is 119 cases, with 38 deaths.
The virus is spreading there at substantially lower levels than a month ago, though Hubei province continues to rack up cases (115 of the 119).
Their total count is over 80,000 with nearly 3000 deaths. pic.twitter.com/zw4O9TvBVK— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) March 4, 2020
As labs across the U.S. start to test for #Covid19, what we haven't been able to see will come into focus. How widely it is spreading is unknown, but the new coronavirus is in multiple parts of the country. Y'day NYC found its 1st case. Today it reported its first community case. pic.twitter.com/wqua8CleUG
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) March 3, 2020
The #COVID19 global spread now officially surpasses 93,000 cases.
I assume there will be an outcry when the "100,000" point is reached.https://t.co/TT1w9O55Qr pic.twitter.com/J9J4et1Brl— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) March 4, 2020
Thoughts & prayers, Seattle readers…
1. Seattle is at a crossroads: Decisive, aggressive action now is needed to avert a much larger #Covid19 outbreak, @trvrb & @svscarpino say. https://t.co/TfEVK2jg4v
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) March 3, 2020
Thanks to fast work by @UWVirology we now know that there are at least two #COVID19 transmission chains circulating in the greater Seattle area. We're working on revised prevalence estimates. https://t.co/ZXN51JMpbP
— Trevor Bedford (@trvrb) March 4, 2020
3. Other Chinese cities, like Beijing, that started stringent social distancing efforts at the same time as Wuhan experienced much flatter epidemic curves. Seattle's at a critical juncture; acting now could mean a more Beijing-like outbreak, @trvrb said.
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) March 3, 2020
Seattle Public Schools just issued new guidelines for coronavirus:
If a student or worker had close contact with a coronavirus patient, they will be asked to leave school for 14 days, even if they are healthy.
If someone tests positive, their school will be closed indefinitely. pic.twitter.com/eq0acehUYV
— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) March 4, 2020
The original sin was the decision to center the whole COVID19 strategy on containment.
That focused testing on travel, to exclusion of other sources of transmission.
Which in turn made it look like containment was working, while blinding them to fact that it had already failed.
— Jeremy Konyndyk (@JeremyKonyndyk) March 3, 2020
Or even more tersely: a whole strategy built around selection bias. https://t.co/3fCi0VAJHP https://t.co/nrfxQD1sOa
— Jeremy Konyndyk (@JeremyKonyndyk) March 3, 2020
The inimitable @sxbegle dove into the #Covid19 case data to see what we know about who it hits hardest and who is likely to experience the milder version of this infection. https://t.co/np6gyhewjm
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) March 3, 2020
South Korea runs 'drive-thru' virus testing in Daegu. Follow the latest developments around the #coronavirus outbreak: https://t.co/cEBwkonfeh pic.twitter.com/UhaiboHWdD
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 4, 2020
South Korea will use an app to monitor people who are quarantined over coronavirus — and if they leave their designated location, the system will set off an alarm. https://t.co/Maij0U5qWS
— CNN International (@cnni) March 4, 2020
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