Julia Belluz
Health correspondent @voxdotcom #medicine #science #publichealth #globalhealth MIT Knight Fellow '14. Contact me securely @ jbelluz on KeyBase or DM for Signal
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Where Medicare-for-all is real
The Democratic presidential candidates keep having the same argument over Medicare-for-all at the televised debates. To spice up the conversation, Vox’s Dylan Scott takes Sean on a journey to Taiwan to explore how the idea works in practice....
Coronavirus Live Updates: Another Young Doctor in Wuhan Dies
It was the latest in a string of deaths among health care providers who have been working to contain the outbreak.
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Officials in China have shifted what counts as a #COVID19 case three times in the last week
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How does the new coronavirus spread? These new studies offer clues.
They also show why Covid-19 might be harder to contain than SARS.
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How, exactly, does the new coronavirus disease #COVID19 spread?
These new studies offer clues (including💩as a potential mode of transmission)
My latest:
vox.com/2020/2/20/2114…
Featuring @MarionKoopmans @JenniferNuzzo @drSteveMorse + others
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2 in Iran test positive for COVID-19: Report
TEHRAN: Two people in Iran tested positive Wednesday (Feb 19) for the deadly new coronavirus, the health ministry said, in the Islamic Republic's ...
What's Next for COVID-19? | Think Global Health
Containment of the coronavirus would make an enormous difference to health around the world. Is it still possible?
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In which @DrTomFrieden thinks through what's next for #COVID19, starting with the most crucial question: can the virus be contained:
"The odds of containment look vanishingly small, but not (quite) yet zero."
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Pathological findings of COVID-19 associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome
Since late December, 2019, an outbreak of a novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19; previously
known as 2019-nCoV)1,2 was reported in Wuhan, China,2 which has subsequently affected
26 countries worldwide. In general, COVID-19 is an acute resolved...
Cambodia’s Coronavirus Complacency May Exact a Global Toll
After a cruise ship docked in Cambodia, passengers streamed off the ship, maskless, and fears are rising that the country could become a vector of transmission.
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“It’s like trying to stop the wind": Mike Osterholm on what the coronavirus cruises say about #COVID19
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The floating petri dish
Listen to this episode from Today, Explained on Spotify. One coronavirus. Two cruise ships. Lots of mistakes. (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Quotation of the Day: Cambodia’s Coronavirus Complacency May Have Global Consequences
Quotation of the Day for Tuesday, February 18, 2020.
China Expels Three Wall Street Journal Reporters
China revoked the press credentials of three Wall Street Journal journalists based in Beijing, a rare expulsion of multiple reporters with the same international news organization at the same time.
These 2 questions will determine if the coronavirus becomes a deadly pandemic
We still don’t have firm answers to the most important questions about this virus.
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Will the #coronavirus #COVID19 outbreak become a deadly pandemic that sweeps the world?
That's the key question. To answer that, we need answers to these two questions first.
An update on what we know about CFR & R0:
vox.com/2020/2/18/2114…
cc @maiamajumder @C_Althaus
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Days After Passengers Leave Ship, American Tests Positive Twice for Virus
The American woman left the Westerdam in Cambodia and traveled to Malaysia. Other passengers have flown on to other destinations.
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In both cases, we've seen scrambling on an epic scale with a potential cost to human life — and an increased risk globally of #COVID19 spread.
(This is a great @nytimes story on that.)
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Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 - Latest news
As the novel coronavirus COVID-19 originating from Wuhan spreads in China and beyond, get the latest updates and developments on CNA
The New Coronavirus and Preparing for the Next Viral Pandemic
Why not work on making vaccines that would protect broadly against this entire class of virus, rather than waiting for each one to attack us, and then try to fight back?
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In which @specterm reminds us of the uncertainty we face re. #COVID19 threat and the certainty we know the next pandemic is coming
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Egypt confirms coronavirus case, the first in Africa
The country's health ministry says the affected person is a 'foreigner' who is hospitalised and in isolation.
Why the coronavirus outbreak might be much bigger than we know
What the spread of the disease in countries like Singapore the US tells us about the risk of global spread.
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NEW: The coronavirus cases detected outside China may be the tip of the iceberg
vox.com/2020/2/14/2113…
^ smart people weighed in on the patterns of #covid19 spread in high-income countries around the world — and what they say about the risk of a pandemic
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Except for the Diamond cruise ship, he added, we haven't seen examples of local transmission really taking off.
I wrote about why that's likely to change here
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Do not violate the International Health Regulations during the COVID-19 outbreak
The International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR)1 govern how 196 countries and WHO
collectively address the global spread of disease and avoid unnecessary interference
with international traffic and trade. Article 43 of this legally binding...
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This is a hugely important commentary in @TheLancet
"In imposing travel restrictions against China during the current outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), many countries are violating the IHR" @LawrenceGostin @shoffmania and others
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The New U.S. Maternal Mortality Rate Fails to Capture Many Deaths
Since 2007, the government had held off on releasing an official estimate of expectant and new mothers who died from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. It waited for the data to get better. But the new, long-anticipated number falls short.
Japan reports 1st death from coronavirus | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
Japan's health ministry says a woman in her 80s living in Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, has died after contracting the new coronavirus.
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Outside China, 447 cases from 24 countries. 2 deaths now: Japan and Philippines.
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ne…
Pattern of severity and mortality hasn't changed: more severe in people over 40 and in men; worse outcomes older a patient is
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