Ryan Panchadsaram
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Trump’s COVID Task Force Is Livid Over the Trump White House’s ‘We Ended COVID’ Report
The Daily Beast 84d 5 tweets
“There’s no world in which anyone can think that is true.”
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Ryan Panchadsaram There's politics & there's government. Politics is claiming you've "ended the COVID-19 pandemic." Government is the tireless work happening at HHS/CDC/ USDS trying to coordinate a national response. Let the task force do its job. Share their reports. 84d
Why Can’t We See All of the Government’s Virus Data?
Nytimes.com 88d 35 tweets
Since March, federal agencies have been collecting a trove of information. But they refuse to release most of it.
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Ryan Panchadsaram Yes...and! Most critically the White House Task Force reports which detail how the virus is spreading in incredible detail. Unfortunately still privately shared with governors, not the public. I stand with & demand the datasets & reports. 88d
The Coronavirus Task Force needs to make its reports public - STAT
Ryan Panchadsaram - STAT 120d 3 tweets
Each week the White House Coronavirus Task Force assembles granular, timely data on Covid-19 — then hides it from the public.
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Ryan Panchadsaram This virus has no respect for borders or state lines. All COVID response data that is assembled by the WH & HHS needs to be shared. A public crisis requires a unified public response. A unified public response requires public data. More at 120d
Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be.
Nytimes.com 143d 67 tweets
The usual diagnostic tests may simply be too sensitive and too slow to contain the spread of the virus.
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Ryan Panchadsaram An important piece by with on the diff between *detection* & *viral load*. Unfortunately the headline is misleading & is being used to discredit PCR testing. (Search on Twitter). A PCR positive is a positive. No question. 143d
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Mask Mandate: 'I Want to See College Football'
Bleacher Report 157d 1 tweets
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves appealed to football fandom while trying to convince his constituents to wear a mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic...
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Ryan Panchadsaram Weekend reading for 14 governors who are *still* missing statewide mandates. FL GA ID TN ND OK are painful outliers with high positivity and new cases per million > 150. If public health, our schools, & our economy aren't motivators. Perhaps football? 157d
White House Task Force notes ‘stability’ in Louisiana, recommends ‘aggressive’ testing for shrimpers
FOX 8 New Orleans - https://www.fox8live.com 161d 1 tweets
The White House Coronavirus Task Force notes 'stability' in new cases and percent positivity in tests in the latest report sent to Governor John Bel Edwards on August 10.
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Ryan Panchadsaram 2/ So far, two of the weekly reports have been leaked. The first on 7/16 by & the second on 7/28 by . It appears the distribution of these reports has been restricted, so no full leaks since then. Just an hour ago a partial leak 161d
Read the Latest Federal Report on States’ Response to the Virus
Nytimes.com 175d 3 tweets
The federal government prepares regular reports on the response to the coronavirus. The following report, dated July 26, was distributed to states by the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force.
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Ryan Panchadsaram Another week and another painstakingly detailed report produced by the WH coronavirus task force is *limited* in its distribution. Every time one of these is leaked, national & local news use it to inform the public. Release the report. CC the 🇺🇸 people 174d
HHS Coronavirus Response Data Hub
Protect-public.hhs.gov 183d 5 tweets
Discover the latest resources, maps and information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in your community.
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Ryan Panchadsaram 😡 - 2 weeks since the switch from to & we are in the dark again. Daily updates never happened. Last snapshot was from July 23. 29 states see increased hospitalizations & this critical indicator is still missing. 175d
User Clip: We need the truth, to set us free, and then act on it.
C-SPAN.org 181d 1 tweets
“In addition, we will be sending a letter to the administration demanding how data is being reported to the White House. As well as pushing for legislation in the upcoming bill to ensure that COVID-19 data is fully transparent and accessible without...
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Ryan Panchadsaram Just now from the : will be "...pushing for legislation in the upcoming bill to ensure that COVID-19 data is fully transparent and accessible without any interference..." "We need the truth, to set us free, and then act on it." 181d
Covid-19 data is a public good. The US government must start treating it like one.
MIT Technology Review 186d 9 tweets
Earlier this week as a pandemic raged across the United States, residents were cut off from the only publicly available source of aggregated data on the nation’s intensive care and hospital bed capacity. When the Trump administration stripped the...
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Ryan Panchadsaram Unfortunately, we are still in the dark. When hospitals were instructed to divert their ICU/bed numbers to , the public lost its only aggregated source of that information. We need it back. More on what happened and what we need to do *now*. 186d
States Are Reopening: See How Coronavirus Cases Rise or Fall
ProPublica 244d 25 tweets
As states reopen, see if they meet White House guidelines for reopening and whether their COVID-19 infection rate is increasing or not.
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Ryan Panchadsaram The turf battle is the politics, but the reality is the 3x a week update of the ICU and inpatient bed data has stopped. & can't report how states are doing on that critical indicator until the data gets shared from the new system. 187d
Trump Administration Strips C.D.C. of Control of Coronavirus Data
Sheryl Gay Stolberg - Nytimes.com 189d 65 tweets
Hospitals have been ordered to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and send all patient information to a central database in Washington, raising questions about transparency.
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Ryan Panchadsaram We do our nightly update of and data for ICU/beds is now unavailable from . A critical indicator is missing. 🤬 With as the only source, they need to aggregate this data and make it public. 189d
COVID19StatePolicy/SocialDistancing
GitHub 300d 20 tweets
Contribute to COVID19StatePolicy/SocialDistancing development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Ryan Panchadsaram 10/ **States rolling new and rolling back policies is like a multidimensional chess game** The only way we keep up is because of: Which is run by , , , and a team from . 208d
How We Beat COVID-19 - covidexitstrategy.org
Covidexitstrategy.org 277d 132 tweets
These 20 critical interventions are needed to stop the spread of COVID-19. Once we stop the spread, we can open up our country again.
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Ryan Panchadsaram Before we can open our country, we need to get the foundational interventions right. There are 20 interventions that every state needs to do to stop the spread of COVID-19. We've cataloged what each state is missing and ways to fix that. 277d
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Ryan Panchadsaram 1/ As we begin to reopen, we must do it safely. Working with collaborators from , , , and we've tracked how each state is doing towards the gating criteria. 252d
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Ryan Panchadsaram 1/ We can #OpenSafely. Together with , , , and we've been tracking how states are progressing on key measures: (1) disease spread, (2) impact on health system & (3) testing robustness What have we learned? 243d
Get 2017 health coverage. Health Insurance Marketplace
HealthCare.gov 2437d 938 tweets
Official site of Affordable Care Act. Enroll now for 2017 coverage. See health coverage choices, ways to save today, how law affects you.
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Ryan Panchadsaram What happens when you call a friend who ran and hosts a podcast? Well records you. From Shanghai to SF, he's exploring how we get through this. I offered my POV from rescuing & actively volunteering now. 281d
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Distancedpod.com 281d 1 tweets
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Ryan Panchadsaram What happens when you call a friend who ran and hosts a podcast? Well records you. From Shanghai to SF, he's exploring how we get through this. I offered my POV from rescuing & actively volunteering now. 281d
More Americans Should Probably Wear Masks for Protection
Nytimes.com 298d 58 tweets
Experts have started to question whether masks may offer at least some protection to healthy individuals and essential workers.
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Ryan Panchadsaram 1/ In addition to social distancing, we need to add wearing non-medical grade masks to our toolkit for reducing transmission rates. This piece by highlights the difference between “catching” and “spreading” and how masks play a critical role. 297d
What China’s coronavirus response can teach the rest of the world
Nature.com 308d 14 tweets
Researchers are studying the effects of China's lockdowns to glean insights about controlling the viral pandemic.
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Ryan Panchadsaram 8/ We are still flying blind. Social distancing is only one of the tools to curtail the spread. It needs to be accompanied by an overabundance of testing and effective screening (ie. temperature checks not questionnaires). 306d
Drive-Through Screening Center for COVID-19: a Safe and Efficient Screening System against Massive Community Outbreak
https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e123 309d 1 tweets
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Ryan Panchadsaram Best practices are coming out of South Korea for us and the world to learn from. Just published by: Drive-Through Screening Center for COVID-19: a Safe and Efficient Screening System Against Massive Community Outbreak 309d
Coronavirus state-level numbers
Google Docs 321d 8 tweets
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Ryan Panchadsaram It should be a national priority to track and share #COVID19 test data. I'm thankful for Jeff's () spreadsheet: but to successfully navigate this crisis this data needs to updated and published by a well-resourced team. 319d