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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 Nov 2020

      Health Nerd Retweeted Ana Cabrera

      Petition to rename them #PlagueShipshttps://twitter.com/AnaCabrera/status/1327002005148151814 …

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      Ana CabreraVerified account @AnaCabrera
      JUST IN: The ship's captain announces 5 people have tested positive for #COVID19 on SeaDream 1, the first cruise ship to embark on a voyage in the Caribbean since the #coronavirus shut down the cruise industry.
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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 12 Nov 2020

      It's quite odd, because cruise ships are LITERALLY TEXTBOOK EXAMPLES of infectious disease transmission. My infectious disease epi course in uni used several examples taken from real cruise ships

      2:19 PM - 12 Nov 2020
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      • Dennis Sweitzer (PhD) Eric Conrad Ph.D. Filialleiter Garf E_III_R 🚀 Kathologist✍🏽...Adapt to reality or die (badly) Nicky Whitaker Hayley Bowyer Cub, et cetera.
      7 replies 9 retweets 74 likes
        1. WatsonsTroops‏ @WatsonsTroops1 12 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          Must admit I had a laugh when I read that article.

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        1. Dr Paul Mackey‏ @auscandoc 12 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          And, as someone else pointed out, prisons and LTC facilities are landlocked cruise ships.

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        1. Birduder344‏ @Birduder344 12 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          SS Petri Dish

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        1. James Ashburner‏ @EurekaJames 12 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          Ship-wide norovirus epidemics are such ancient ‘news’ after all.

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        1. guidoamm‏ @guidoamm2 12 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          Indeed. But why are the infection and mortality rates of the 5 cruise ships and the 2 war ships where SARS-Cov2 was detected not discussed more widely?

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        1. guidoamm‏ @guidoamm2 12 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          Other than the Diamond Princess, there has been remarkably little in terms of research. We are talking about a sample of more than 30,000 people between passengers and crew representing a wide variety of age and ethnicity.

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        2. Dr Rob Whitehurst‏ @OYCar 12 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          You'd have thought people at the @CDCgov might have had similar lectures. But apparently not https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/cruise/index.html …

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        3. Dr Rob Whitehurst‏ @OYCar 12 Nov 2020
          Replying to @OYCar @GidMK @CDCgov

          They issued this guidance (which was obviously going to be ineffective) in the days before the election so it would get minimal public scrutinyhttps://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-cruise-ships-idUSL1N2HL29F …

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