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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
While Trump lies for his own political interest and refuses to "take responsibility," coronavirus is spreading across America.
Trump’s lies are costing American lives.
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I think the likely range of answers to these questions should influence the decisions on how extreme the measures we should be willing to take to get containment.
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Questions I'm wondering about tonight, about COVID-19:
1. If we give up on containment, what happens? Does it go around the world and go away, or does it become endemic?
2. If it becomes endemic, how does this change human life expectancy (in developed & developing countries)?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This day will be a terrible turning point, seeding many communites. Visible in a month or so.😢 In the name of enhanced screening!!!
Passengers waited in line for hours at customs at @DFWAirport. Many concerned about being so close to others during the #COVIDー19 outbreak. The airport saying “CBP officers and the CDC are following federal guidelines to conduct enhanced screening for passengers” @FOX4
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This is unacceptable. The reactionary, poorly planned travel ban has left thousands of travelers at ORD forced into even greater health risk. @realdonaldtrump and @CBP: no one has time for your incompetence. Fully staff our airport right now, and stop putting Americans in danger.
This is the scene at O’Hare airport. The traveler who took the photo said it’s a 6-hour wait for bags then on to customs for 2-4 more of waiting in shoulder-to-shoulder crowds. Police are handing out water and disinfectant wipes. @fly2ohare #ord #coronavirus #COVID19
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
“I can’t vote you out of office because you have life tenure, but I can withdraw whatever insignificant support my Bar membership might seem to provide.’ slate.trib.al/EdAUbA2
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Read the story here: propublica.org/article/shoul…
Tell us about your #coronavirus quarantine experience here:
propublica.org/getinvolved/a… (end)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Trump said: "We will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days."
But his proclamation bans entry for all foreigners who were "physically present" in the Schengen Zone 14 days prior to their planned arrival in the US.
That's a big difference.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
It appears we are a week or so behind Italy. A ban on flights from Europe isn’t going to change that. More decisive federal action — massive testing and social distancing — appears to be necessary to “flatten the curve.”
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"Of the three types of intervention we looked at, the early detection and isolation of cases likely had the strongest impact" theguardian.com/world/2020/m…
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The failure modes of US government officials with COVID-19 (unwillingness to break the rules or take initiative when it's obviously needed) seem like they might be worse than those in the Chinese government (taking what you think the boss wants/measures to extremes).
‘It’s Just Everywhere Already’: How Delays in Testing Set Back the U.S. Coronavirus Response nyti.ms/39SdV3K with @ByMikeBaker edited by @jialynnyang and contribs by many colleagues
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OK, Facebook is clearly just using the last place I gave it location permission (which is something I generally only do when posting from airports).
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As a California voter, I'm used to getting a lot of election-related mail, but not from presidential campaigns. But this year I got 6 pieces, all from Mike Bloomberg 2020... and most of them came after I voted.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
PENCE was set to evacuate infected Americans from a cruise ship. Then TRUMP stepped in — worried how “the numbers” would look if more cases were documented on the mainland.
How Trump’s approach made the coronavirus crisis worse. NEW tonight, from me. politico.com/news/2020/03/07…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Yes. The quarantine-at-home strategy used between 1/23-2/1 in Wuhan ie, some confirmed cases were isolated at home, helped reduce R from 3.8 to 1.25, but not good enough. An important lesson for us to learn. Centralized quarantine of confirmed cases after 2/1 was effective(R=0.3)
Important epidemiological data from Wuhan 👇 Home quarantine is not enough. It looks more and more likely we will have to follow the Chinese containment model closer here in Europe in order to get #COVIDー19 under control (R < 1)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
this is the 1st time I'm seeing somebody with a significant academic profile (a @HarvardBiostats Professor indeed) talking about this. If you watched Wuhan carefully (maybe from afar), there was a major shift in how the city conducts quarantines 1/
Yes. The quarantine-at-home strategy used between 1/23-2/1 in Wuhan ie, some confirmed cases were isolated at home, helped reduce R from 3.8 to 1.25, but not good enough. An important lesson for us to learn. Centralized quarantine of confirmed cases after 2/1 was effective(R=0.3)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Big newsrooms may need to take political reporters – and editors on the political desk – "entirely out of the loop" on the Coronavirus story, says @froomkin. "It’s too damned important to be covered as a two-sided battle over who’s winning the narrative." presswatchers.org/2020/03/ge…
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