#Infections

Pandemic at the Disco

RKSAlberta

The decision to "lockdown" or not isn't economic. It's moral. Either way the economy will suffer, but thousands of dead can't be brought back. Funding for mental health and wellness

Conor Ruzycki

caruzycki

1/ Nebulizers have taken a lot of flak recently, in large part due to the use of a neb by an asthmatic patient in an AUS quarantine hotel. There’s an

Knowable Magazine

KnowableMag

Hey hey, this is Rachel Ehrenberg (@Rachelwrit), Associate Editor here at Knowable MagazineI’m livetweeting today's free panel: “Covid-19 & the Immune System: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” Follow

Dr. Jennifer Wunder

Jenwunder

1/ Look, folks, I get that the scale is hard to grasp, but everyone needs to do some basic math & understand that the risk is *not* solely to the

Rupert Pearse

rupert_pearse

Recent trial results show some promise for Tocilizumab in the treatment of severe COVID-19. Welcome news at a difficult time and excellent work from @remap_cap & @NIHRresearch. But the results

Infectious Diseases

InfectiousDz

Sinovac's CoronaVac vaccine has been bought by countries with promises of high efficacyBrazil just burst that bubbleBrazilian researchers report the CoronaVac efficacy is 50.4%This is why we need published phase

Lolly Blaq

osayeyen

Weird Facts Most People Don’t KnowPenguins are known to push other penguins into the water to ensure the area is free of predators. Not so cute after all, are they?

Kimberly Prather, Ph.D.

kprather88

A good article on masks. One key way they are believed to help is that lowering the dose that is inhaled lowers the severity of the disease. This could partly

Rahul Ganatra

rbganatra

1/ My appraisal of the Danish mask study (DANMASK-19): This was a negative trial - masks were not shown to prevent #COVID19.Could chance or bias make this outcome more likely?Does

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

Immunity Update: We have more data on why people exposed to COVID dont seem to get COVID. @ASlavitt 1. Immunity from unrecognized prior infection:Up to 80% of COVID is asymptomatic.

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/health/covid-natural-immunity.html?referringSource=articleShare “But what do we know about how the immunity from a prior infection compares with the protection given by the new vaccines? And what if you

Theo Sanderson

theosanderson

Any info out on the 'new strain' in phylogenetic / AA mutation terms? https://twitter.com/The_Soup_Dragon/status/1338523634109992961 Wonder if there's any chance increased circulation could be driven by false-negatives in testin

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

I wrote a tweet yesterday stating that #ZeroCovid "is not compatible with the individual rights and freedoms that characterise postwar democracies". My point was apparently largely misunderstood. Thus, I wish

Texas Tribune

TexasTribune

1/ Because of the holiday weekend, you will likely notice two weird changes in reported COVID-19 data over the next week. @COVID19Tracking explains why both expected changes don’t necessarily mean

Steve Brown

stevebrown2856

(1/9) A short thread on recent case trends in the UK and the impact of "Track and Trace" hotspot testing. Firstly, cases (by date reported) *have* gently increased since 1st

Forrest Maready

forrestmaready

In this thread, I'm going to present a collection songs, comics, and advertisements showing how no one really cared or worried about a #measles infection before the vaccine came out.

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