This morning’s classified coronavirus briefing should have been made fully open to the American people—they would be as appalled & astonished as I am by the inadequacy of preparedness & prevention.

Market St, SF. No private cars allowed😍

The folks Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have a #COVID10 tracker. Now they've launched a portal full of answers to ALL your #coronavirus epidemic questions. On behalf of Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 Jon Cohen & other colleagues, pls go here 👇🏽before you ask us. coronavirus.jhu.edu

Pretty stark statement from a Kaiser nurse in NorCal who got sick after caring for a coronavirus patient, criticizing CDC for delays in testing. act.nationalnursesunited.org/page/-/files/g…

The mathematical illiteracy of this country rears its ugly head yet again.

Discovery: Biologists in Germany have found a way to block #SARSCoV2 from entering lung cells. The virus hijacks the ACE2 receptor & another, TMPRSS2, to enter cells. A drug, camostat mesilate, blocks entry. It's used in Japan for pancreatic inflammation medicalxpress.com/news/2020-03-s…

"The tests are all perfect. Like the letter was perfect. Like the transcript was perfect." This is, and I write this with trepidation, psychotic.

The graphics and simulations in this article are exceptionally clear, and may help you understand what’s going on with the spread of coronavirus. To be sure, the model is hyper-simplified, but the basic ideas are correct washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/…

The hospital in Brescia (one of the hardest-hit regions for COVID-19 in Italy) ran out of ICU valves and the supply chain was broken. A local company brought a 3D printer to the hospital, redesigned & produced the valves in 6 hours avoiding the worst buff.ly/33mHWq5

The CSBS county-level map tracking #COVID19 cases now updates automatically every three hours (Noon, 3 PM, 6 PM, etc.). csbs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Media/ind… This map can be used in both mobile and desktop.

The governor of New Jersey just put out the call on live TV that he is desperate for Cobol programmers right now.

Understanding specificity vs positive predictive value might be the difference between life and death, these days #SARSCoV2 #serology #AntibodyTest

"Many physicists want to use their mathematical modelling skills to study the COVID-19 pandemic. Julia Gog, a mathematical epidemiologist, explains some ways to contribute" nature.com/articles/s4225…

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇦 This is a good thread explaining the math behind it. It's one reason why they don't want to start widespread antibody testing of the general population - people may falsely think they are immune and engage in riskier behavior. x.com/taaltree/statu…

For fun, I'll post some "Invalid Techniques of Proof" from an excellent compolation (link below) by Berwin A Turlach of UWA. (I didn't write any of these but I think they're great, so will put all of them into this thread to credit the source) staffhome.ecm.uwa.edu.au/~00043886/humo…

2 Days later we had a very strong counter reaction of one of the main German industry asscociations demanding an abandonment of all restrictions by the end of May, which is clearly not scientifically supported and would cost many lives. #BreakTheChain 3/11 x.com/yaneerbaryam/s…

Just interviewed a medical researcher, and got an automated transcript of our conversation. "Can you describe what you do?" I asked. The algorithm transcribed the answer: "I'm the director of the wave force for jazz medicine."

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