#Infections

angus young

angus_young61

On this weekend exactly a year ago a 50-year-old woman from Hubei province in China arrived in the UK to visit her son studying in York. Within days both were

Mac n’ Chise 🧬🧫🦠

sailorrooscout

Vaccines are preventives, not cures. The purpose of vaccination is to bring the severity down to the level of a benign virus. That’s how this works. In the face of

SepsisTrustNZ

SepsisTrustNZ

The cost of sepsis in New Zealand (thread) @ACCNZ found 1250 treatment injury claims registered with keywords “sepsis”/“septicaemia” from 2015-2020. 100 were fatal. Information about payments against these claims has

Deirdre Gilhawley

DeeGilhawley

More proof of airborne transmission - the case of the Diamond Princess cruise ship"A computer model of the cruise-ship outbreak found that the virus spread most readily in microscopic droplets

Eric Topol

EricTopol

I need to change the title of this piece from "Fast, Cheap [#COVID19] Tests Could Enable Safer Reopening"Δ "Could" -> *Will* https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6504/608.summary @ScienceMagazine by @RobertFSer

Tom Inglesby

T_Inglesby

Incredibly valuable reporting on how COVID spread across the US and opportunities we missed to slow it. So much we all should take away from this. 1/xhttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-spread.html?action=click&modul

Chris Hopson

ChrisCEOHopson

1/8 Speaking to NHS trust leaders across country and looking at today’s statistics on beds occupied by COVID patients, it's clear we have now reached a critical point. Immediate decisive

eugyppius

eugyppius1

1. I was a corona alarmists and even lockdown supporter in March and April. Things that changed my mind:The failure of Lombardy catastrophe to recur almost anywhere else, the manifest

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

BREAKING: What will a post-vaccine world look like? Once most adults are immune — following natural infection or vaccination — the virus will be no more of a threat than

Marc Daoud

MarcDaoud3

So, a new study based on antibody tests estimated that around 774 thousands Lebanese had been infected up with covid up tilll Dec 15 (when the official toll was 105Th).

Hilary Homes AI Can

AmnestySecurity

On 4 January 2021, the #UK will decide on the extradition of @wikileaks publisher #JulianAssange to the #USA. It could radically alter the landscape of global media freedoms & undermine

Dave Agar

dave1agar

If I hear one more "pundit" promote the idea of opening the economy and at the same time protect old people from dying from COVID-19, I am going to scream.

Antonia Ho

DrToniHo

Our systematic review and meta-analysis on #SARSCoV2, #SARSCoV & #MERSCoV viral load dynamics, duration of viral shedding & infectiousness out now in @LancetMicrobe @mugecevik @silverfoxdoc @CVRinfo @UofGlasgow @Infection_StAnd http

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

A "post-viral tsunami" is gathering, with devastating consequences for large numbers of people. Some of its effects closely resemble ME/CFS, a condition whose 250,000 sufferers in the UK have been

John Burn-Murdoch

jburnmurdoch

Two great papers out today on how to improve compliance with restrictions and thus make real, lasting inroads against viral transmission, getting us out of the tunnel faster.Turns out the

Catherine Dodds

dr_c_dodds

All our @UoBrisSPS peeps are SOooo ready to catch up on rest and family time. I'm lucky and honoured to work in such an amazing team. But I sadly reflect

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