#Infections

Prof

covidtweets

Two states with very different policies in terms of restrictions and mandates: NC & OK. Millions making random decisions every day, some catching COVID, some don't. Some die, most survive.

Christina Pagel

chrischirp

THREAD: Some information on the spread of the new Covid variant across England from @ONS infection survey - ONLY goes up to 18th December. We urgently need last week's data.

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

WHY MASKS DON'T WORK:Coughing is NOT the issue.Large droplets are NOT the issue. Breathing exhales MUCH MORE virus in fine aerosols than coughing. Finer aerosols bypass masks/nose & reach the

Dr. Saskia Popescu

SaskiaPopescu

A couple of things to unpack from this before hitting the panic button... first, concerns for toilet plumes aren’t new (ahem, norovirus) (1/x) Flushing may release coronavirus-containing ‘toilet plumes’ -

Jeremy Farrar

JeremyFarrar

There is lots of high-quality data on COVID-19, but we haven’t always done a good job of explaining what it really means, or put the data in context of a

Luke

2017rockwood

An independent survey revealed the majority of covid fear comes from catching it and suffering long term effect from Disclaimer: Everything I reference in thread existed BEFORE COVID-19.Long haul covid

Jennie Espelho

1Mirror1978

Lets talk about SEPSIS. What is Sepsis: sepsis is an inflammatory immune response to infection, which can lead to multi organ failure and death if not managed well or promptly.

Ashleigh Tuite

AshTuite

There's lots of talk about when to re-open the US border. Here's an illustration of the numbers of #COVID19 infected travellers we'd expect to see crossing into #Ontario daily, assuming

Eric Topol

EricTopol

1. There are limited data about the vaccines for people who have had covid. But we can learn from the @Pfizer @BioNTech and @moderna trials which had 3% and 2.2%

Aaron Ginn

aginnt

1/ Lockdowns were based on bad mimesis, not evidence."Decisions on implementing lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic were based on what neighboring countries were doing at the time, a new study

David Steadson 🇦🇺🇸🇪🇪🇺🌍

DavidSteadson

Both FHM and ECDC have predicted ... or, in FHMs case, published a "scenario" .... where they believe sars-cov-2 cases will peek in Sweden in about 2 weeks.This seems to

Jeffrey Mold

Jeff_Mold

Given the surge in interest by the media in humoral (antibody) immunity - I felt it would be nice to give a brief overview of how it works in laymen

Dave Collum

DavidBCollum

The new panic narrative is that the vaccine distribution is all screwed up. They are not flushing it down the drain. We are vaccinating people as fast as we can.

Stefanie Leder

stefleder

1) Why is LA reopening when we’re still in a heartbreaking, deadly, terrifying surge? They told us safer at home would stay in place as long as ICU capacity is

George

georgebatchelor

1/10Covid-19 has gone down. A lot. The estimated number of infections in London is less than 1,000 (compared to +1million in April) - this is around the level in early

Mike Walsh

lastwalsh

My approach: 1) what are the (relative) effects of Plex on important outcomes? You might have to trust me on this but... Neutral on mortality, large relative reduction on kidney

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