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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Welcome to Johnson’s alternative reality – where care home workers get the blame | Marina Hyde
The prime minister oversaw the discharge of 25,000 people into care homes without coronavirus testing. But not by his account, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
Dominant Coronavirus Strain Appears to Be a Mutated, More Virulent Version, Study Finds
The genetic variation of the novel coronavirus that dominates the world today infects human cells more readily than the original that emerged in China, according to a new study published in the journal Cell on Thursday.
5 Rules to Live By During a Pandemic
There’s no playbook for living through a pandemic, so we decided to create one. With some basic rules to guide you, everyone can lower risk and live a full life while we wait for the virus to get under control.
Covid-19 cases are rising, but deaths are falling. What’s going on?
By the time coronavirus deaths start rising again, it’s already too late.
Bill Hanage
A really good article from @dylanlscott at @voxdotcom on why the lagging death rate is nothing to relax about. Quoting me amid a roll call of smarter people
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Making sense of mutation: what D614G means for the COVID-19 pandemic remains unclear
Korber et al. (2020) found that a SARS-CoV-2 variant in the spike protein, D614G,
rapidly became dominant around the world. While clinical and in vitro data suggest
that D614G changes the virus phenotype, the impact of the mutation on...
It's a Wildfire, Not a Wave
A wildfire is a better metaphor for this pandemic. We should get used to this and accept that complete normality is a long way off.
The Pandemic Experts Are Not Okay
Many American public-health specialists are at risk of burning out as the coronavirus surges back.
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Bill Hanage
A(nother) superb article from @edyong209 featuring some people I knew before the pandemic, others I have 'met' in the last few months, and others I have yet to meet. All are wonderful and worthy of your deep gratitude
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W.H.O. to Review Evidence of Airborne Transmission of Coronavirus
The World Health Organization plans to update its advice after hundreds of experts urged the agency to reconsider the risk of aerosol transmission.
Five coronavirus mysteries scientists are still racing to solve
Six months into the outbreak, Nature looks at the pressing questions that researchers are tackling.
Sweden Has Become the World’s Cautionary Tale
Its decision to carry on in the face of the pandemic has yielded a surge of deaths without sparing its economy from damage — a red flag as the United States and Britain move to lift lockdowns.
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Bill Hanage
At last someone spells it out “It is simplistic to portray government actions such as quarantines as the cause of economic damage. The real culprit is the virus itself.” Well said @petersgoodman
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The Coronavirus Pandemic
Facebook Live Q&A with William Hanage, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Presented jointly by The Forum at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public He…
SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted via contact and via the air between ferrets.
SARS-CoV-2, a coronavirus that newly emerged in China in late 2019 and spread rapidly worldwide, caused the first witnessed pandemic sparked by a coronavirus. As the pandemic progresses, information about the modes of transmission of SARS-CoV-2...
239 Experts With 1 Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne
The W.H.O. has resisted mounting evidence that viral particles floating indoors are infectious, some scientists say. The agency maintains the research is still inconclusive.
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Bill Hanage
I'm quoted in this @nytimes article from @apoorva_nyc being blunt (again) about the clumsy way we communicate risks of airborne transmission, and the way @WHO has handled it 1/n
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Inhale, then exhale: start afresh to diagnose SARS-CoV-2 by non-invasive face mask sampling technique
SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is leading to an exponential growth of cases and the total number
of confirmed cases has exceeded 3 million. Although respiratory droplets are the major
route of transmission of the virus, but, Doremalen and colleagues in a...
Love of science, not Trump's ignorance, will make America great again
Amid a pandemic, the president rails against reason itself. The passions of his predecessors throw his failure into sharp relief
Bill Hanage
A rather beautiful article on how science has ever been awkward in the United States - but that has not stopped science being essential to the nation and the world. Happy 4th to all
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A Cheap, Simple Way to Control the Coronavirus
With easy-to-use tests, everyone can check themselves every day.
Hidden genomic diversity of SARS-CoV-2: implications for qRT-PCR diagnostics and transmission
The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked an urgent need to uncover the underlying biology of this devastating disease. Though RNA viruses mutate more rapidly than DNA viruses, there are a relatively small number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)...
Can an Algorithm Predict the Pandemic’s Next Moves?
Researchers have developed a model that uses social-media and search data to forecast outbreaks of Covid-19 well before they occur.
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Bill Hanage
Can we forecast the near future of the pandemic with data we have now? That’s the goal of this work led by @MauSantillana. The idea is simple;🔼in pandemic activity will lead to changes in multiple data streams before increases in cases become apparent nytimes.com/2020/07/02/hea… 1/n
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Racism and Public Health • Converging Viruses Wreak Havoc in Black Communities
David B. Miller William Hanage By David B. Miller and William Hanage Special to The Real Deal In recent months the world ...
'Mummy, what's his name?': expert's daughter invades BBC interview
Dr Clare Wenham was speaking to BBC News when little girl appeared with picture of unicorn