Dr. Saskia Popescu

@SaskiaPopescu

Biodefense PhD, infectious disease epi, purveyor of infection prevention, fellow, & dedicated to improving healthcare biopreparedness 😷🧫 alea iacta est

Phoenix & DC
Vrijeme pridruživanja: ožujak 2009.

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    BIG news on the 2019-nCoV front in the US. Today, issued an issued an EUA to enable emergency use of the CDC 2019-nCoV Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel. This authorization allows the use of the test at any CDC-qualified lab across the country.

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  3. "An IPC programme at national and facility level with a dedicated and trained team, or at least an IPC focal point, should be in place and supported by the national authorities and facility senior management.”

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    “Importantly, this does not mean recklessly deploying extreme measures; it means judiciously gearing up worst-case preparedness well before a worst-case outcome is certain.”

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    Biosecurity expert : The coronavirus outbreak should be a huge wake-up call that we aren’t ready if an even bigger pandemic strikes

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    As has been discussed MANY times previously - it is not appropriate to calculate a case fatality rate or "death" rate (per ) at this point in the outbreak. Until we better understand mild/asymptomatic infections (among other factors), this number is simply not accurate.

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  9. “This should include urgent funding of material and training support for essential infection prevention and control practices.”

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    When a new virus emerges, like the , there are always many uncertainties about how it spreads, the disease it causes & the impact it will have. If we act now, following evidence & in solidarity, we can defeat the new coronavirus & here my explanation how in the

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  12. Stresses to an already stressed system 👇 thank you for covering this serious issue and including my IPC/biodefense perspective in it,

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    If you’re following , please read this from : I know we’re all in a rush to be 1st, and most published, and in a prestigious journal. But, let’s take a pause. Misinformation (intentional / accidental) doesn’t help anything.

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    Antibiotic resistance scares me more than the coronavirus, and what are we doing to fight it? -- New study finds 'no clear rationale’ for 45% of Medicaid patients’ antibiotic prescriptions.

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    So heeeeey you know that letter about the German cluster, and the supposed asymptomatic transmission? It helps to talk to the Index Case before you decide she didn't have symptoms. Just, you know. Protip.

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    Welp. Turns out the authors didn't talk to the "asymptomatic" woman, who...says she had symptoms from . Caution urged when extrapolating from a single or small number of studies on a new virus, y'all. One detail can change the picture.

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    RT : Most of the modelers responding to nCoV are doing so pro bono. There is no funding for this work. Every outbreak they drop the work they are funded to do and volunteer their expertise to help us all to understand what is happening and how to respond. 1/

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