Julia Belluz
Health correspondent #publichealth #globalhealth including #covid19 MIT Knight Fellow '14. Contact me securely @ jbelluz on KeyBase or DM for Signal
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German to impose new coronavirus rules amid record rise in cases
the Guardian 32d 1 tweets
Merkel says if speed of infection persists, the health system ‘will reach limit of its capacity’ within weeks
Julia Belluz Germany’s tightening its #covid19 measures — and Austria to follow next. Germany’s cases per capita still low relative to neighbors but they’re in exponential growth. 32d
The Covid-19 tipping point doctors fear most is getting closer
Julia Belluz - Vox 32d 2 tweets
Doctors can now save many more lives from Covid-19 — until hospitals reach capacity.
Factors Associated With Death in Critically Ill Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019
Jamanetwork.com 136d 7 tweets
This cohort study of adults with COVID-19 examines factors associated with death and interhospital variation in treatment and outcomes in the US.
Julia Belluz Short thread on an important topic: #covid19 death. We've learned a lot about saving lives. But a patient's fate often hinges on how overwhelmed a hospital is, how well equipped it is for handling the critically ill. Check out this study 32d
Why Covid-19 death rates have fallen, and why they could rise again
Julia Belluz - Vox 32d 5 tweets
Doctors can now save many more lives from Covid-19 — until hospitals reach capacity.
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Julia Belluz The mortality gains doctors have made treating #covid19 patients are real. As said: “I don’t expect my Covid patients to die." But he and many of his colleagues are warning those gains will disappear as patients overwhelm hospitals again. 32d
Julia Belluz My latest: Why hospital capacity remains a critical threshold between Covid-19 survival and death 32d
Julia Belluz Critical care docs told me if sick, they'd want to be treated in large hospitals with high-volume ICUs. But, large or small, they warned, hospitals under strain will struggle to care for the new wave patients. Mortality rates will rise again. 32d
Czech Republic is reinstating its strict face mask rules
CNN 38d 1 tweets
The Czech Republic has gone back to square one in its battle against Covid-19, reinstating a strict mask mandate that was in place in the spring, and which the government lifted over the summer, believing it had the epidemic under control.
Julia Belluz The Czech Republic, where the end of #covid19 was celebrated this summer, is looking more and more like a cautionary tale. How many more cautionary tales do we need? 38d
Decoding a Disorder at the Interface of Mind and Brain
Scientific American 38d 3 tweets
A mysterious condition once dismissed as hysteria is challenging the divide between neurology and psychiatry
How Pfizer Partner BioNTech Became a Leader in Coronavirus Vaccine Race
Bojan Pancevski - WSJ 38d 3 tweets
German biotech BioNTech SE worked on cancer treatments, and was developing an influenza vaccine with Pfizer Inc., when its founder, Ugur Sahin, led the company’s pivot to the coronavirus in January.
The real death toll from the pandemic in America may already be 300,000
Julia Belluz - Vox 39d 6 tweets
Deaths from all causes — not just Covid-19 — are up since the pandemic started, a CDC report found.
Julia Belluz Excess deaths are an important #covid19 indicator. They show how many more people died of any cause in a time/place compared to historical averages. This helps capture the collateral damage of the virus. They're way up around the world, including in US 38d
Debunking the False Claim That COVID Death Counts Are Inflated
Scientific American 40d 13 tweets
President Trump, a congressman and conspiracy fantasists have repeated the myth. But three kinds of evidence point to more than 218,000 U.S. deaths
UK Covid death toll rises by 241 in highest daily increase for months
Haroon Siddique - the Guardian 40d 2 tweets
Government data shows a further 21,330 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus
Quarantine Fatigue Is Real. Shaming People Won’t Help.
The Atlantic 202d 66 tweets
An all-or-nothing approach to risk prevention will cause more harm than good.
Herd Immunity? Or ‘Mass Murder’?
Nytimes.com 41d 47 tweets
A proposal to let people with low risk of infection live without constraint could lead to a million or more preventable deaths.
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Julia Belluz One of the many reasons herd immunity isn't a good #covid19 strategy: we don't yet know all the long-term health effects. John Barry looks back at the Spanish Flu for a grim reminder of that. 40d
Italy's Lombardy, Campania prepare virus curfews as cases jump - France 24
France 24 40d 1 tweets
Italy's Lombardy, Campania prepare virus curfews as cases jump
Julia Belluz Lombardy, the Italian region hit with #covid19 in the spring, is preparing for a nighttime curfew to slow spread of the virus Context: 40d
How coronavirus exposed Europe's weaknesses
Ft.com 41d 6 tweets
When the pandemic struck, many countries were ill-prepared. As a second wave hits, what have they learnt from their early decisions?
Julia Belluz And for more on how Europe messed up the coronavirus response, I found this story today very useful. 40d
COVID-19 to Plunge Global Economy into Worst Recession since World War II
World Bank 174d 3 tweets
The coronavirus pandemic and containment measures have plunged the global economy into deep contraction. World Bank Global Economic Prospects forecasts say global economy will shrink 5.2% this year, using market exchange rate weights; deepest...
Julia Belluz We'll all be less healthy and wealthy after this new round of lockdowns. Already, the first set coincided with the worst recession since WW2. Cancer screenings ⬇️, heart attack treated in hospitals ⬇️,childhood malnutrition⬆️, domestic violence ⬆️ 40d
Europe’s new Covid-19 wave, explained
Julia Belluz - Vox 40d 14 tweets
Countries with the fastest-spiraling outbreaks are re-entering lockdowns.
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Julia Belluz In March, governments across Europe imposed targeted #covid19 lockdowns in hard-hit communities, followed by nation-wide measures. Today, it's March again in Europe. Except this time, we had 8 months to prepare. 40d
Julia Belluz So the public endured the pain of lockdown for little benefit & they'll have to endure the pain again. This time, will people follow rules? has warned of pandemic fatigue across Europe. Some city and state govs are fighting national measures. 40d
Julia Belluz For months, scientists told governments across Europe to build up #covid19 testing & tracing capacity, quarantine & isolation measures, ready hospitals, & get people to wear masks. In too many communities, that didn't happen. Now we're here again 40d
What A Summer Of COVID-19 Taught Scientists About Indoor vs. Outdoor Transmission
Maggie Koerth - FiveThirtyEight 41d 11 tweets
Here we are, almost eight months into this pandemic, and it’s like you can’t even invite more than 150 people to sit next to each other unmasked in your rose ga…
Challenges | Cancer Grand Challenges
Cancergrandchallenges.org 46d 3 tweets
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Julia Belluz Well, here's some good news. There are new *$25 million* research grants for people who want to solve cancer's most complex challenges 41d
Covid-19: The global crisis — in data
FT Data - Ig.ft.com 43d 54 tweets
Charts and maps show insights — and paradoxes — of pandemic that has claimed more than a million lives
Julia Belluz This stunning #covid19 #dataviz from the is worth spending some time with 41d
Subscribe to read | Financial Times
Ft.com 44d 4 tweets
News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication
Julia Belluz "It really disturbs me that there are all these people dying alone, with their families unable to see them." So many interesting nuggets in this timely profile of the great 41d