Meet the enemy.
Only thing missing from this #SARSCoV2 picture is the sugar. Imagine the whole danged thing hiding from your immune system by coating itself in cotton candy, pic.twitter.com/h8G7KFshen
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) May 20, 2020
Follow @Reuters liveblog for the latest developments around the coronavirus outbreak https://t.co/cEBwkoEQ5P pic.twitter.com/oiV8nBN0Wm
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 21, 2020
In last 24 hours, 106 000 cases of #covid19 were reported to @WHO, says @DrTedros, “the most in a single day since the outbreak began”. Almost 2/3 of those from just 4 countries, he says (doesn’t name countries, assuming US, Russia, Brazil, but not sure about fourth)
— Kai Kupferschmidt (@kakape) May 20, 2020
Coronavirus: World sees highest daily increase in virus cases – WHO https://t.co/08hGnpox9X
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) May 21, 2020
We’ve added lots of new data for world’s worst-hit cities & regions
• Major South American cities, alongside those in Turkey & Russia, are battling fierce outbreaks and under-counting Covid deaths
• Towering peaks in excess deaths in European cities are beginning to flatten out pic.twitter.com/Da08VUayJ8— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) May 20, 2020
Overall across the 24 countries for which we have excess mortality data, we find 249,000 excess during recent weeks.
This is 61% higher than the number of Covid deaths reported in these countries at the time.
Data for all countries: https://t.co/VcSZISFxzF
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) May 20, 2020
As the US nears 100,000 coronavirus-related deaths, wide discrepancies remain between states in terms of infection rates and death rates and the pace of their economic restart https://t.co/s6vvNdmNCW pic.twitter.com/9mAdcz1Dfb
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) May 20, 2020
On April 1st, 27% of Americans said they had worn a mask or other face covering in the last 7 days.
Today, it's up to 83%.
(Data: @USCDornsife) pic.twitter.com/bimJiDI7YA
— Alexander Podkul (@apodkul) May 20, 2020
Nearly 70% of Americans say wearing a mask near others is respectful. Just 8% see it as a sign of weakness. https://t.co/FyfceHGs05 pic.twitter.com/Q00Oi4bqhW
— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) May 20, 2020
A new AP-NORC poll finds that close to half of Americans say a vaccine against the coronavirus is necessary before lifting virus restrictions in their communities. https://t.co/5rduVN0e0B pic.twitter.com/SEI1aJXAd0
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 20, 2020
If people continue to do some combo of social distancing, staying home more, masks, more contact tracing, I doubt we will see widespread exponential growth like we did early on. These indiv actions cumulatively will help to keep transmission suppressed but not fully controlled 5/
— Caitlin Rivers, PhD (@cmyeaton) May 19, 2020
What does this mean for us? Our actions, the choices we make, are the front lines. We should stay home when we can, avoid gatherings, wear masks indoors in public, wash hands. This next phase is up to us, and it's with continued vigilance that we can further slow the virus. 7/7
— Caitlin Rivers, PhD (@cmyeaton) May 19, 2020
Asians in the US least likely to get coronavirus infection, data suggests https://t.co/g30zKbUZr3
— SCMP News (@SCMPNews) May 18, 2020
Fascinating piece in one of today's Russian papers claiming that “Putin put himself above God” & “has sacrificed the prosperity of the nation.” Amid the pandemic “all conditions for the deification of Putin’s power have been destroyed.” #ReadingRussia @BBCNews @BBCWorld pic.twitter.com/KW9Mfy7g1g
— Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) May 21, 2020
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