Bill Hanage
Assoc Prof at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Gooner. Currently cosplaying Dr Rieux in some weird re-enactment of La Peste. Tweets are personal
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Cambridge To Require Face Masks In Public At All Times; Violators Could Be Fined $300
Anyone 2 years old and older must wear a face mask at all times when out in Cambridge starting next Friday.
I put negative reviews on pause after lockdown. Here's why that must continue
Restaurants have been hit hard by coronavirus – so there’s no point in me being brutal. I’m going to carry on finding positives, and ignoring the mediocre
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"Covid-19 is not some mere blip. It’s not just a stretch of rough road before a return to the smooth. It is a once-in-a-century event akin to a world war, which changes things permanently"
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Sweden's high coronavirus death toll could be linked to mild flu seasons, chief scientist says
Sweden's chief epidemiologist has partly blamed the country's high coronavirus death toll on mild flu outbreaks in recent winters.
Bill Hanage
Sorry this is just silly. What made the mild flu season stop at Sweden’s borders, such that neighbouring countries have such startlingly lower death rates?
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A Brazilian city devastated by COVID-19 may have reached herd immunity
Up to half of Manaus was infected at the epidemic’s peak, which slowed further spread of the virus but also led to many deaths, scientists say.
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"An unmitigated outbreak will lead to very significant morbidity and mortality... which is basically what we’ve been saying since February.” How herd immunity is attained matters
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Tribal Truce — How Can We Bridge the Partisan Divide and Conquer Covid? | NEJM
Medicine and Society from The New England Journal of Medicine — Tribal Truce — How Can We Bridge the Partisan Divide and Conquer Covid?
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Really important article for the US (and UK I reckon). We are being hobbled in our pandemic response by our partisan divides nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… 1/n
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Restaurant Bar Seating, 10 People Per Table To Be Allowed In Massachusetts
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced tweaks to the state's restaurant safety guidelines.
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Now this is disheartening, as schools open in MA, more in person dining to be permitted - groups up to ten. Let me explain why this is a potential problem 1/n
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Estimates of the severity of coronavirus disease 2019: a model-based analysis
These early estimates give an indication of the fatality ratio across the spectrum
of COVID-19 disease and show a strong age gradient in risk of death.
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We've known which age groups are most vulnerable since at least when this was published in March (earlier if you read the preprint) and subsequent work has been remarkably consistent with it. thelancet.com/journals/lanin… 8/n
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As more local lockdowns begin, the hard truth is there's no return to 'normal' | Devi Sridhar
The only certainty about the year ahead is the uncertainty. As a scientist, here’s my advice on how we can live alongside Covid, says public health expert Devi Sridhar
Which countries have protected both health and the economy in the pandemic?
Responses to the pandemic have often been framed in terms of striking a balance between protecting people’s health and protecting the economy. There is an assumption that countries face a trade-off between these two objectives. But is this...
COVID-19 and Health Inequities: Seminar Series
Seminars take place weekly on Thursdays from 2:00 – 3:00pm ET between September 24 and October 22, 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States has disproportionately affected communities…
SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Dynamics Should Inform Policy by Muge Cevik, Julia Marcus, Caroline Buckee, Tara Smith :: SSRN
It is generally agreed that striking a balance between resuming economic and social activities and keeping the effective reproductive number (R0) below 1 using
Pubs and restaurants across England to be forced to shut at 10pm
Boris Johnson to set out limited nationwide coronavirus restrictions on Tuesday
Opinion: We need a data-driven approach to fighting COVID-19, not a second lockdown
Targeted public health responses can curb the rise in COVID-19 cases without shutting down entire communities
Schools 'no greater risk' for children and staff
Other experts say more research is needed now all children are back at school in England and Wales.
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I just realized that some UK schools are putting kids in 'bubbles' of 300
That's not a bubble, that's closer to the planet Saturn (including the rings)
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Effects of a major deletion in the SARS-CoV-2 genome on the severity of infection and the inflammatory response: an observational cohort study
The ∆382 variant of SARS-CoV-2 seems to be associated with a milder infection. The
observed clinical effects of deletions in ORF8 could have implications for the development
of treatments and vaccines.
Experts call for stronger measures as UK daily coronavirus cases hit four-month high
Official figures show 4,422 people tested positive in past 24 hours, the highest daily total since 8 May
Bill Hanage
while the actual numbers of cases are far larger than those that have been reported, this is most likely still earlier in the epidemic curve than the stage when action was taken in the spring. Not an excuse for delay. Action now will pay dividends
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Voting & COVID-19 - Vote.org
Vote.org is gathering COVID-19 election updates and trying to distill this information for voters.
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Vote.
Early voting is open in many places.
Mail in votes are votes.
And risks of in person voting can be minimized. But like I said if you can do it in your state, don't wait.
Vote
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Can You Break A Very Expensive Centrifuge?
Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. Two puzzles are presented e…
“It Was All About the Election”: The Ex-White House Aide Olivia Troye on Trump’s Narcissistic Mishandling of COVID-19
The first staffer on the coronavirus task force to go public tells The New Yorker that America’s pandemic response was “derailed by the person at the very top.”
The Most Likely Way You’ll Get Infected With Covid-19
You don’t have to sanitize your apples anymore, but you do have to wear a mask