#Infection

Good morning! Today LA City Council Homelessness & Poverty Committee will be meeting at 10am. There are a couple of important agenda items we want to highlight, especially the proposal
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It's a year since I first tweeted about an unusual pneumonia spreading in Wuhan, China. I lost my mother to Covid-19 on 27th December. My research on the disease, summarised
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Last week I presented to the WHO Guidelines Development Group. It was targeted towards infectious disease epidemiologists, but many folks have asked me to share the presentation.So, here's a video
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1/ Lockdowns aren’t born equal. What are we really expecting to achieve? Another irrelevant thread from yours truly @maestro_rayo and @federicolois 2/ “Bro, you dumb. Of course Lockdowns work!” we
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Thread ..... 1/ Giving today’s circumstances it’s all a Mad world like this guy below 2/ we are living in a world of madness that has been created by
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THREAD: on lockdowns, mitigation, herd immunity strategies. I have a *lot* of problems with this article by Lord Sumption in the Guardian today - so I've decided to do a
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#TheWeekInTory1. Boris Johnson nominated Chris Grayling to chair the Intelligence Committee2. Yes. Chris Grayling.3. Matt Hancock said “I'm really pleased that the Domestic Abuse Bill has been passed” 12 hours
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This is interesting. If true, it might explain why there are so few deaths and cases in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos despite many connections to Wuhan.These countries are next to
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A list of scientific studies on why masks do not work and can be harmful to wear for prolonged periods. This was compiled by others and thanks for their work.
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UPDATE ON COVID-19 INFECTIONS FROM THE ONSOn Tuesday 23 June PM Johnson announced that COVID-19 infections in England had dropped to 1 in 1700, and that various easings could take
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much of their access because they had other ways of guaranteeing their candidate would win the presidential election. I'm sure we are all familiar with what those are.They will not
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Bring back the Renaissance Man/Woman, or why "listening to the expert" is not such a good idea although it superficially seems so to all but the technocrats in our times.
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How increasing #COVID19 cases overwhelm contact tracing (CT) & lead to runaway/accelerating epidemics. Also, how delays make CT ~useless.(bonus: how heterogeneity can lead to highly variable timing of epidemics)New paper
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Top 10 most downloaded articles in 2020 includes our review in the @AnnualReviews Virology - “Seasonality of Respiratory Viral Infections” by @MiyuMoriyama et al! It’s free to download: https://arevie.ws/3aYt32Y  Here
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1/ A (long) tale of COVID-19 testing in Japan. One of my SO’s staff members was PCR-tested Friday week ago, after waking up with flu-like symptoms & calling in sick.
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THREAD: #VitaminD and #COVID19 Studies (Series 2):I have reported 16 articles before. Unfortunately, some still think there's a lack of 'evidence'. Reporting 8 more studies. Now we have 22 articles
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