Top news of the week: 14.04.2020.
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Coronavirus
RT @UN: As #COVID19 poses serious new challenges to human well-being, the UN is bringing people and ideas together to find innovative solutions to the #coronavirus threat.
https://t.co/DnXr3ZD1Zr
OpenUN mobilizes global cooperation in science-based COVID-19 responses
From leading research and development to assess potential treatments for #COVID19, to supporting the deployment of medical robots in China, the United Nations is mobilizing international ...
A2: Misinformation, rumors and the rapidly changing nature of the #COVID19 outbreak are big problems, so we are working to ensure health professionals have the facts: https://t.co/Aad9X28U7G #FactsOverFear #NPHWChat
OpenCOVID-19
The virus is SARS-Co-V-2, and the disease the virus causes, coronavirus disease 2019, is abbreviated as COVID-19. Public health officials are monitoring the COVID-19 outbreak, …
China has successfully reduced the mortality rate of COVID-19 as the disease developed: WHO https://t.co/wC8fbemCVs https://t.co/DbcO9IZZAD
OpenChina succeeds in reducing COVID-19 mortality rate: WHO
Medical workers pay a silent tribute to martyrs who died in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak and compatriots who died of the disease at …
China has scaled up land border control measures for the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) https://t.co/Fq7FA6UIdU https://t.co/xAUIsqbxe9
OpenChina scales up land border control for COVID-19 prevention
A truck from Kazakhstan enters China's border in Alataw Pass, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, April 11, 2020. Customs and border inspection officials at the …
Mexico's president thanks China for support to combat #COVID19 https://t.co/zrYSuph6iP https://t.co/UFuosTQN1X
OpenMexico's president thanks China for support to combat COVID-19
Workers unload support supplies shipped from Shanghai, China, at the Mexico City International Airport in Mexico City, capital of Mexico, on April 7, 2020. (Xinhua/Francisco …
RT @GlobalGoalsUN: What many take for granted - like washing your hands - can be more difficult for people with disabilities. Disability advocate @jilly_peppa calls for more inclusion + awareness when responding to the #COVID19 crisis.
See what actions are recommended: https://t.co/r0CjrahykE https://t.co/OIoizrV1vl
OpenCOVID-19 Outbreak and Persons with Disabilities
Persons with disabilities generally have more health-care needs than others – both standard needs and needs linked to impairments – and are therefore more vulnerable to the impact of low ...
It is a familiar public health message that has taken on new urgency in the time of the #COVID19 #coronavirus pandemic: If you smoke, you need to quit. @LungAssociation @arizzomd
https://t.co/y518RbrTRk
OpenSmokers Face Greater Risk From COVID-19
Health experts say now is the time to quit
For the time being, NPIs are the only tool in the armamentarium for controlling #COVID19; a new report in JAMA serves to quantify important metrics suggesting their potential effectiveness https://t.co/bGu3gHAkyH
OpenPublic Health Interventions for COVID-19
For decades, leading scientists and influential professional societies have warned of the dangers of emerging infections and the specter of a global pandemic.1,2 The emergence of severe ...