James Orbinski
@JamesOrbinski
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Global Health & Humanitarianism. Husband of one, father to three, canoeist at any opportunity. Director, @DIGHR_YorkU. Tweets/RTs my personal views & choices!
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Joined October 2010
fullest congratulations to Bob Rae on his appointment as Canada's Ambassador to the UN. There is nobody more experienced, principled, committed and pragmatic than Bob. We could not have a better representative!!
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Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic is a portal’ | Free to read via @FT
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The novelist on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next
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Coronavirus measures could cause global food shortage, UN warns
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Protectionist policies and shortage of workers could see problems start within weeks
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While the world has come together in unprecedented ways, these are still challenging times. We must keep #HumanRights and those who are vulnerable top of mind. We #StandTogether for ✊: Housing rights Persons with disabilities Mental health #ProtectTheVulnerable
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US Senate Passes $2 Trillion Virus Rescue Plan: The largest in US History. but is it enough??
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Republicans and Democrats reached a hard-won agreement on the Senate’s $2 trillion worth of fiscal stimulus to shore up an economy crippled by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Could a health calamity that is unacceptable in China be acceptable in the UK or US? This pandemic is an ethical challenge: see
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To avert disaster, solidarity between countries must be as strong as within them
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Gilead Sciences has secured orphan status in the US for an experimental drug seen as a potential coronavirus treatment. Orphan drug status grants market exclusivity and a de facto monopoly on sales and prices for seven years https://t.co/mik2Oc3eaP
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WHO is asked to create a voluntary intellectual property pool to develop Covid-19 products https://t.co/quGHk8n6fE via @statnews
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The Costa Rican government asked the World Health Organization to create a voluntary pool of information that could be shared in developing coronavirus treatments and diagnostics.
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Coronavirus tests: researchers chase new diagnostics to fight the pandemic
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Social Distancing is critical to Flattening the curve of what is coming! Nearly half of Canada’s COVID-19 cases now acquired through community spread, Public Health Agency of Canada says
theglobeandmail.com
Public-health experts say Canada faces a crucial few weeks during which hospitals will have an influx of severely ill patients that will strain their resources
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The US could be next Covid-19 hotspot amid 'large acceleration' of cases, says WHO.
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WHO says US could be next virus hotspot; EU urged to evacuate Greek refugee camps; Greta Thunberg says she believes she had Covid-19. This blog is now closed.
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URGENT ACTION FOR ALL KEEPING SAFE SOCIAL DISTANCE - #TogetherWeCanDoIt campaign. 7:30 pm local time every evening,starting today at your front door!Bring pots, pans, anything to make noise& celebrate our amazing nurses! #TogetherWeCanDoIt
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The symptomatic case fatality risk (the probability of dying after developing symptoms) of COVID-19 in Wuhan was 1.4% (0.9–2.1%). See: Estimating clinical severity of COVID-19 from the transmission dynamics in Wuhan, China | Nature Medicine
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Social isolation with aggressive testing of asymptomatic contacts and quarantine of asymptomatic carriers can stop the spread of COVID. See:
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By identifying and isolating clusters of infected people, we wiped out Covid-19 in Vò, say Andrea Crisanti, a professor of microbiology, and Antonio Cassone, a former official at the Italian instit...
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While still not out of the woods, for the first time since the coronavirus crisis began, China on Thursday reported no new local infections for the previous day.
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Two congressmen tested positive for the virus, as work continued on a larger stimulus package. The European Union found that Russia was behind harmful misinformation circulating in the West.
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Early and aggressive interventions matter to “flattening the curve” of COVID. To understand why, see this interactive touch screen article: Opinion | How Much Worse the Coronavirus Could Get, in Charts - The New York Times
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Play with a model of coronavirus in the U.S.
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Who’s ‘flattening the curve’ on the coronavirus, and who isn’t? A global graphic comparison - The Globe and Mail
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For countries scrambling to contain COVID-19, the challenge is to slow the disease down so there aren’t more cases than their health systems can handle. Here’s why that matters, and how governments...
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This is an excellent analysis of the Coronavirus pandemic by one of the world’s leading thinkers in Complexity Science: See: Coronavirus will change the world. It might also lead to a better future - The Globe and Mail
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What’s happening in response to the worldwide spread of the SARS CoV-2 virus (and COVID-19, the disease it causes) is a vivid example of a global ‘tipping event,’ in which multiple social systems...
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