#Infections

Andy Conway Morris 😷🧼🇬🇧🇪🇺

andymoz78

DNA test can quickly identify pneumonia in patients with severe COVID-19, aiding faster treatment. 1st authors @maesmailis @EllenHigginson Joana Pereira‐Dias @JanineLux @jbartholdson @efkay88 @razmahroof @IslamAbdelaziz1 @GordonDougan1 @

Dannielle (Dossy) Blumenthal PhD

DrDannielle

On the plus side, Moderna vaccine safe.https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/info-by-product/moderna/reactogenicity.htmlOn the minus side, does not necessarily prevent you from getting COVID19.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/29/w

Dr Ellie Murray

EpiEllie

I had a long chat with @politico writer @zackstanton about where we are with COVID, what we can expect might be coming, and how we got here, plus what we

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽

meganranney

OK, I keep getting asked why our #COVID19 rates are so high. Here are my best guesses.https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1336378612707016706 1. An incomplete explanation: We are a small state. Small variations in #s

Othman Laraki

othman

1/ As COVID-19 cases continue to surge, a missing testing metric can help explain the ineffectiveness of our containment efforts. The public discussion around testing has been relating to testing

Akiva Cohen

AkivaMCohen

OK. Time for a thread on masks. Anti-maskers (who should be as reviled as anti-vaxxers) keep citing research studies showing masks aren't that effective at protecting wearers from becoming infected.

Jade Eloise Norris

jadenozzz

I've read all the papers cited by Govt evidence report regarding face coverings.First of all, I was astounded at the amount of refeneces to newspaper articles & YouTube videos of

Christina Pagel

chrischirp

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

durrie bouscaren

durrieB

OK so I've been researching a round of pitches on vaccine distribution disparities, and I've been noticing some threads of conversation and some really good work. Here's a quick roundup:

Russ

RussInCheshire

#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

Melissa Chen

MsMelChen

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

Dr. Rob Davidson #WearAMask

DrRobDavidson

Each shift in the ER I put on my surgical mask, grab my #N95 from the storage room, and prepare to see patients. I covet my N95 to protect me

Andrew Lover

AndrewALover

New UK strain of #COVID19 (B1.1.7) Suggested that it's 70% more transmissible. What if this is a "side effect" of massive levels of testing? Surely mass testing/diagnostics can't drive

LGB Alliance

ALLIANCELGB

We are living through a period of such breathtaking, callous disregard for the lives of girls that the jeers and slurs sometimes seem all-encompassing. /1of17https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/irreversible-damage-by-abigail-shrier-review-re

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

Brief thread to debunk the repeated claims we hear about transmission not happening 'within school walls', infection in school children being 'a reflection of infection from the community', and 'primary

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

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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