#Infection

Health Nerd

GidMK

This week, a bunch of headlines have popped up saying that a Norwegian study has proven that you can go to the gym safely Sounds like good news! Unfortunately, this

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Comparing #COVID19 infection fatality rates (IFRs) of #SARSCoV2 with influenza can be problematic. As the piece below touches on, the IFR estimates for seasonal influenza are very poor. Though, another

Jo Walton 🌹

jowalton15

I am going to post a long thread, I hope that those of you who follow me will react according to your own consciences and I am going to add

😷 Justin Klein

JustinKlein1

We’ve had some great news on early vaccine data that promises much needed help with #COVID. But we have one more valley to cross together before those can be helpful,

David Steadson 🇦🇺🇸🇪🇪🇺🌍

DavidSteadson

Here's what gets me about so so so many people and their response to the Swedish pandemic failure. This is literally true ....Sweden: We want the virus to spreadNorway: We

Liz Szabo

LizSzabo

Can science end the pandemic? Not if we don't socially distance and mask up. @drsanjaygupta tells public health forum, "As good as the science is, no amount of science can

Jamie Njoku-Goodwin

jnjokugoodwin

The situation facing hospitals is truly awful and cannot be understated. But important that at a policy level we detach the immediate pre-vaccine challenges from the post-vaccine outlook. They are

Girmay Zahilay

GirmayZahilay

VACCINE UPDATE We‘ve been informed that the very first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine arrived in King County earlier today. This is a major step in the fight to

Dr. Richard Corsi

CorsIAQ

1/ Ventilation of Schools. My experience working with public school districts for more than two decades is that classrooms are, in general, woefully underventilated (and that's before COVID-19 times!). Others

Leila Mechoui ☃️

leilamechoui

Ok so guess what everyone, I did read that excess death paper from the CDC and it's not some extraordinary dismissal of Briand's article, which was posted and then retracted

Michael Gerth

gerth_micha

Our new preprint is now live! Fun collab w @Mateos_Lab @BrunoLemaitre3 @JGriffinScience @sio_stef @TheLadybirdman and others. We monitored evolution of Spiroplasma symbionts in Drosophila over 10 years. We found that

Architects for Social Housing

9thfloor

In the week ending 18 December 2020, there were just 984 deaths in England and Wales from respiratory diseases other than COVID-19. That's nearly half the 1,839 deaths from respiratory

Sinead Donohue

sinead_donohue

Really important to say Regional #PublicHealth Departments have been doing "reverse #contacttracing" since the beginning. It's not a new concept. It's a basic part of our approach to any infectious

K. Taylor, Ph.D., M.S.

KYT_ThatsME

I just saw the statement from Kayleigh, the press secretary said about repeatedly testing negative and now testing positive and some folks seem confused. So I guess it’s time to

jendeerinwater

JenDeerinwater

#DisabilityTwitter & #NativeTwitter healthcare thread: Almost 2 months of fighting & I still don’t have my diabetic testing supplies. The latest nonsense I was told is that Medicare will only

William M Briggs

FamedCelebrity

A national mask mandate is asinine and wrong for the following reasons:1) It goes against all evidence on the effectiveness of masks. https://wmbriggs.com/post/32326/ 2) If masks worked, they would have worked.

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