COVID-19 updates for Wednesday, February 17

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Luke O'Neill @laoneill111

Covid19 will become endemic and manageable- several experts look to the future nature.com/articles/d4158…

February 16th 2021

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Julia Belluz @juliaoftoronto

What should we learn from the nearly 500,000 US #covid19 deaths to date? @zhoyoyo and I teamed up for a deep dive into the data. The big takeaway: the virus spared no one — no community, no age cohort, no part of the country. 🧵1/11 vox.com/22252693/covid…America’s Covid-19 deaths, explained in 8 charts and mapsThe virus was unsparing.vox.com

February 16th 2021

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André Picard @picardonhealth

Covid-Linked Syndrome in Children, MIS-C, Is Growing and Cases Are More Severe, by @PamBelluck nytimes.com/2021/02/16/hea… via @NYTHealth #COVID19 #pediatricsCovid-Linked Syndrome in Children Is Growing, and Cases Are More SevereThe condition, which usually emerges several weeks after infection, is still rare, but can be dangerous. “A higher percentage of them are really critically ill,” one doctor said.nytimes.com

February 16th 2021

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Chelsea Clinton @ChelseaClinton

All of this by ⁦@LawrenceGostin⁩ & ⁦@zainrizvi⁩: Joe Biden “can champion a plan to share the vaccine recipe — most of which has been funded by taxpayers — and build manufacturing capacity” across the world. Biden needs to mobilize the global community to produce the COVID-19 vaccinePressure to create a coronavirus vaccine is increasing by the day, but for a safe vaccine to enter the market, it takes time. Just the FAQs, USA TODAYusatoday.com

February 16th 2021

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Aris Katzourakis 💙 (for UCU NEC) @ArisKatzourakis

Shocked to hear of the passing of @EdRooksby after a struggle with long covid. Do read his account of his experience, updated not long before his untimely death if you can. Nine months in the long limbo of long covidNearly 70,000 cases of covid infection were reported yesterday, 8th January. Of course that’s officially confirmed cases and the real number of infections will be much higher. A small but sig…edrooksby.wordpress.com

February 16th 2021

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