#Infection

Kees van der Leun

Sustainable2050

In NL's second corona wave, we've just reached a stabilization at a high level (5,000 infections/day). 82 patients died today, and there's almost 600 in intensive care. But still all

Samuel Braslow

SamBraslow

Today, anti-mask protesters went to the Beverly Connection Target and returned to the Westfield Century City mall. LAPD showed up to the mall in force, escorting some out of the

KJ Seung

kj_seung

@bhrenton argues that tracing an infection back to a restaurant is harder than tracing it back to a family member. This is true. But how do we actually find and

Dr. Sarah Cohodes

SarahCohodes

New evidence out yesterday from @REACHCenterEd @douglasharris99 on whether schools contribute to COVID hospitalizations, using nationwide datahttps://twitter.com/douglasharris99/status/1346212687756337153?s=20 This adds to the recent eviden

Julia Marcus, PhD, MPH

JuliaLMarcus

NEW: I wrote this piece for @TheAtlantic about the latest weapon being unleashed in the war against #COVID19: the cops. Crowded indoor parties need to be avoided during a pandemic,

Graham Neary

GrahamNeary

Let me tell you a story. It's about six passenger flights from Wuhan that led to an unprecedented global disaster.These six flights help to explain why the entire world was

Matt Thackston

mrthackston

Yesterday there was a lot of discussion on here about getting our kids back in school and what was needed. I mentioned wanting to see action from the city and

Adi Millman

AdiMillman

Happy to share our new preprint about how we solved the mystery of some of the coolest bacterial elements:Retrons function as anti-phage defense systems!https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.06.21.156273v1See thread below by the 3 of

LEON

Intuitive1966

This thread provides absolute undeniable facts that the mass general public are being herded into a modern day ‘gas chamber’ Please read and share Follow thread In January 2020 social

Mac n’ Chise 🧬🧫🦠

sailorrooscout

It is important to point out that the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is effective against the B.1.1.7 variant and reduces virus shedding and transmission. With this most likely being the dominate strain,

Megan Clement

MegClement

Let me say in advance how much I don't want to be doing this. I am currently in the Melbourne Airport Holiday Inn on day 12 of hotel quarantine. I

Josh Wolf

Joshuawolf

Excited to share this paper on effects of antibiotics on the gastrointestinal resistome in immunocompromised kids! Punchline: prophylactic antibiotics increase resistance to themselves, but *not* to other antibiotics. @StJudeResearch https:

Ahmar U. Zaidi, MD (Dr. Z)

drzsicklecell

Detroit. The history of my city is racially-charged and rooted in the effects of structural and individualized racism. #COVID19 exposed that. As a #SickleCell physician who cares for black

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james__glen

In order to help raise awareness of the COVID long-termers - mild-to-moderate cases that have people struggling for months - this is a curated list of English-language press coverage of

Whitney R. Robinson

WhitneyEpi

1/ Maybe it’s my #epitwitter bias, but I get frustrated by the outsized attention these hospital-based viral load comparison studies (kids vs adults) get. And interpreted as children as a

Lauren Pelley

LaurenPelley

U.K. government scientists say more-transmissible #B117 coronavirus variant may also increase death rate by 30 per cent, @guardian reporting.Teams compared death rates among those who tested positive for new variant

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