Typo in my tweet below. #Covid19 death toll in China is 2442. https://t.co/Yfg21mpAcB
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) February 23, 2020
2. Of the international #COVID19 cases, 45% are people who were infected on cruise ships. For a while, the cruise ship infections made up more than half of all out-of-China cases. With most (?) people off ships & spread picking up in Italy, Iran, South Korea, this is shifting. pic.twitter.com/XROnOzIsxh
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) February 22, 2020
New stage in public perception, if not in the actual spread of the virus — “science journalist. molecular biologist. curious. Contributing Correspondent at @sciencemagazine”:
For me and for everyone I know who has been following #covid19, the last few days have felt like a profound shift in the epidemic. We are clearly entering a new phase. And since I've had some time to digest recent news, here is a short thread about that „window of opportunity“
— Kai Kupferschmidt (@kakape) February 22, 2020
The @WHO and @drtedros have emphasized again and again that there is a “window of opportunity” to contain #COVID19. On Friday, Tedros said he believed that window of opportunity was still there, but narrowing. Personally, I think the last days have shown that time is up.
— Kai Kupferschmidt (@kakape) February 22, 2020
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From the summary: "we estimated that about two thirds of COVID-19 cases exported from mainland China have remained undetected worldwide, potentially resulting in multiple chains of as yet undetected human-to-human transmission outside mainland China"
— Kai Kupferschmidt (@kakape) February 22, 2020
The massive efforts in China have bought us time. But we should be using that time to prepare and that includes preparing the world by communicating what is happening, what is likely to happen and what the response might look like. That is the “window of opportunity” we have now.
— Kai Kupferschmidt (@kakape) February 22, 2020
Scoop: Trump will ask Congress for emergency funds to fight coronavirus, although health officials fear the request – potentially $1B – will be too small and quickly exhausted. https://t.co/XhHCn7gA6K
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) February 23, 2020
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