Gregg Gonsalves
I work @Yale focusing on operations research/epidemiology for infectious disease. In the real world: been an AIDS activist for ~30 yrs. Asst Prof YSPH.
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A public health doctor and head of corrections agree: We must immediately release people from jails and prisons
It is only a matter of time before a COVID-19 outbreak in our jails or prisons has significant public health consequences in surrounding communities
Gregg Gonsalves
.@GovNedLamont: there is NO way to do infection control in a prison. #coronavirus will continue to spread in #connecticut prisons until you release inmates at severe risk for COVID19. Public health AND corrections experts agree on this. @PMounds @LGSusanB
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State prisons releasing inmates due to coronavirus as positive tests rise
More than 700 inmates have been released since COVID-19 first struck Connecticut, the largest one month reduction in the prison population in state history.
Gregg Gonsalves
State prisons releasing inmates due to coronavirus as positive tests rise ctpost.com/news/coronavir… via @connpost
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How Will We Know When It’s Time to Reopen the Nation?
Experts offer four benchmarks that can serve as a guide for cities and states, eliminating some of the guesswork.
Does My County Have an Epidemic? Estimates Show Hidden Transmission
Even counties that have few reported cases probably already have sustained, undetected outbreaks, a study finds.
He Needs Jobless Benefits. He Was Told to Find a Fax Machine.
Thousands of newly unemployed New Yorkers desperate to stay afloat are being frustrated by the state’s 1970s-era technology.
Health care CEO who makes millions says no to hazard pay for coronavirus workers
"Thank you for the courage," she tells doctors and nurses.
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Gregg Gonsalves
Health care CEO who makes millions says no to hazard pay for coronavirus workers motherjones.com/politics/2020/… via @MotherJones
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Column: The suspect science behind Trump's chloroquine claims
President Trump's hype of a potential treatment for COVID-19 gives false hope to virus patients and causes real harm to others.
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Gregg Gonsalves
And @hiltzikm article @latimes is required reading on anyone who wants to know how this drug is getting hyped, by whom, the shady dealings going on and the real harm to patients with #lupus and other diseases who need this drug. 3/
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Gregg Gonsalves
The bad science of Trump's claims on #chloroquine. Required reading by @hiltzikm.
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Unlike FDA, European regulators refuse to clear chloroquine for COVID-19 without data
In the quest to treat COVID-19, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have drawn more attention than any other drugs. But while the FDA issued an emergency green light for their use against coronavirus, European regulators are limiting them strictly to...
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Gregg Gonsalves
Unlike FDA, European regulators refuse to clear chloroquine for COVID-19 without data
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Use of Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Annals of Internal Medicine | American College of Physicians
Two medications often used for treatment of immune-mediated conditions, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, have recently attracted widespread interest as potential therapies for coronavirus disease 2019. The authors of this commentary provide...
Gregg Gonsalves
Use of Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Ann Intern Med | ACP
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Gregg Gonsalves
Here is latest data on #Hydroxychloroquine. #AnthonyFauci is right, we have little data now to support its use. The idea that #PeterNavarro thinks otherwise, has ear of @realDonaldTrump should frighten you. It means science doesn't matter @WhiteHouse. 1/
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Inside the epic White House blowup over "game-changer" hydroxychloroquine
The drama pitted economic adviser Peter Navarro against infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci.
Inside the epic White House blowup over "game-changer" hydroxychloroquine
The drama pitted economic adviser Peter Navarro against infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci.
U.S. 'wasted' months before preparing for virus pandemic
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the first alarms sounded in early January that an outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China might ignite a global pandemic, the Trump administration squandered nearly two...
Brooklyn-born disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci says we may be on the brink of a pandemic
BOROUGHWIDE — Many people know the name of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, …
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Gregg Gonsalves
In other news, my 86-year-old Italian-American mother has a thing for Dr. Fauci. She told me this AM, his father ran a pharmacy around corner from her house growing up on 13th Ave (82/83 St.) in Dyker Heights. She won't listen to me. She listens to him.
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A Failure of Systemic Thinking
America’s coronavirus response could have played out another way, if only we’d understood the complexity of the problem.
Gregg Gonsalves
So I love @zeynep but I do think public health people saw this coming because we understand outbreaks are complex, stochastic events with direct/indirect effects. The question is why didn't anyone listen?
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As Trump reaches for hope and journalists shoot him down, reporters end up looking bad
Journalists have a vital role to play in keeping our country free, but if this becomes a fight with Trump, they can't win.
Ailey company member Jessica Amber Pinkett in Robert Battle’s ‘Ella’
Ailey company member Jessica Amber Pinkett danced a whimsical rendition of Artistic Director Robert Battle’s ‘Ella’ all over her apartment. Music: Airmail Sp...
The Show Must Go OnThe Show Must Go On
The Ailey dancers are off tour but will not stop dancing! Take a look at their rendition of "I Been Buked" from Alvin Ailey’s ‘Revelations.’ Thank you to the...
Global profiling of SARS-CoV-2 specific IgG/ IgM responses of convalescents using a proteome microarray
COVID-19 is caused by SARS-CoV-2, and has become a global pandemic. There is no highly effective medicine or vaccine, most of the patients were recovered by their own immune response, especially the virus specific IgG and IgM responses. However, the...