COVID-19 updates based on what experts on Twitter are talking about.
Support on BuyMeACoffee to help this project continue!
Sign up for email updates · Twitter: @covidpath
· Facebook group
“It is hard for me as a public health professional, who also knows my history, to blanketly tell someone to take all these people off the street when they are protesting against 400 years of a different pandemic that happens to not be infectious.” https://t.co/c5gAVc1yDj
— Dr. Zinzi Bailey (@zinzinator) June 6, 2020
The new @WHO masks guidance document is excellent. They break down who should be wearing what type of mask in what scenario and why.
— Abraar Karan (@AbraarKaran) June 6, 2020
Notably they recommend *medical grade masks* for anyone >60 or with notable underlying comorbidities.#COVID19 https://t.co/VaYuWxyikI pic.twitter.com/mPJI8kq8qN
New cases of the novel coronavirus are rising faster than ever worldwide, at a rate of more than 100,000 a day over a seven-day average.https://t.co/HIfixMhStt pic.twitter.com/0W6csCo4nv
— COVID19 (@V2019N) June 5, 2020
Finally some good (and fun) news
— Ilan Schwartz MD PhD (@GermHunterMD) June 5, 2020
Dogs can detect COVID19 by smelling armpits
This pre-print investigation found that these dogs were all very good boys & girlshttps://t.co/SDiprngnx4 pic.twitter.com/lViweLuVxF
Lovely to see the amazing @bonniehenry profiled in the @nytimes. I met Bonnie covering SARS (1) in Toronto; British Columbia couldn't be in better hands. Heard this via a friend in BC today: "Dr Bonnie Henry saved us. I find her voice so calming."https://t.co/YrUKygjBHM
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) June 5, 2020
⚠️@CDCgov survey of 502 adults shows 25% are unsafely using disinfectants to try to kill the #coronavirus: washing food with bleach, using on bare skin, or inhaling and ingesting them.
— Dr. Dena Grayson (@DrDenaGrayson) June 5, 2020
25% reported “an adverse health effect they believed was a result.”https://t.co/6YZVrx58r0