1/5 Now that we're weeks into lockdowns, people are discussion 'eliminating' #COVID19
Can we eliminate the disease? It's hard to say, but many places in the world offer us some interesting evidence
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2/5 In this context, 'elimination' is a specific term. It doesn't mean getting rid of something completely, it means having no endemic transmission of the disease (i.e. all cases of COVID-19 are imported)pic.twitter.com/tf9btoR73A
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What are you on about. That's the epidemiological description
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Oh right, you're confused about the difference between a textbook definition and a colloquiallism
Got it 
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