#Infections

Imagine going about your life, when a virus develops into a pandemic. Suddenly the rulers of your country are like "We're going to let the virus infect us, don't listen
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Demographic breakdown by Age for India and Italy, and Death Rate by Age for #COVID19. #CoVID19Global Case Fatality Rate (CFR): 3.5%[(3800 deaths / 110,000 confirmed cases) X 100]1. CFR will
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What have we become? To be sure, better days lie ahead if we make our voices heard. Governments remain responsive to our concerns and will reverse these policies.The value of
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We are all being held to ransom over the fraudulent use of the PCR test. This is criminal. Lives and livelihoods are being destroyed under false pretences.A short thread........1/n 2/nThis
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1. COVID-19 - COVER-UP (1) - AIRBORNE VIRUSWHO (11 Feb) - "Ebola and this (Corona) are not the same,..CORONA is AIRBORNE, it's more CONTAGIOUS". Sadly, it took 5 months (after
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Great demonstrating why I love science! Review of a new preprint finding (1) ~5% of popn has antibodies from virus infections that are cross-reactive to #SARSCoV2 but (2) these
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Five things I’ve done in the last year as a public health doctor that, like most of what we do, flies under the radar.... 1) Our surveillance system found disease-causing
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#bced unmasked A rawLet me be clear, I am not giving up on #bced. It is my life’s work & I love my students, the science of learning, the craft
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It is hard to overstate what a catastrophic failure the Govt & SAGE’s policy of continual restrictions & lockdown has been.Not only has it caused economic devastation & misery for
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Really interesting pre print looking at school transmission in Northern Italy during the second surgeSuggests huge age dependant differences in risk of transmission in children in these settings (who would
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Since I’m back from Cairo, a couple of reflections for anyone interested:The country is in a paradoxical state of uncertainty and stability, a level of which I’ve not experienced since
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"In the United States, most coronavirus infections are never confirmed by testing, and most positive tests are never traced to a probable source."https://twitter.com/jfeldman_epi/status/1351549046754848771 I've led CT efforts
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It was an icy and chilly one in Philadelphia today, time for a #MicroMonday. A 21 year old college student living in a dorm presents with 1 week of general
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California was the first state to issue a stay at home order, has mandated masks for months, and has been one of the 10 most restrictive states over the past
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CDC experts on masks: Community mask wearing substantially reduces transmission of #SARSCoV2 in 2 ways: Source control of exhalationProtecting the wearer But they are *not equal*. CDC just advised double
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This overly bureaucratic prioritization, and the outrage over a few undeserving people cutting ahead (which I don't support but the harm is much less than all this) will likely do
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