#Infections

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

CORONAVIRUSES (HCoVs) BEFORE SARSCov2: "The percentage of positive tests peaked during December - March each year..a significant difference in age distribution was noted. Conclusions: Common HCoVs may have annual peaks of

Jillian Hurst

hjillianh

SARS-CoV-2 Infections Among Children in the Biospecimens from Respiratory Virus-Exposed Kids (BRAVE Kids) Study | medRxivhttps://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.18.20166835v1 A prospective cohort study evaluating #SARSCoV2 exposure

Health Nerd

GidMK

A systematic review/meta-analysis of honey vs other cough/cold remedies came out yesterday in BMJ Evidence-Based MedicineI think this is worth a quick peer review on twitter 1/n 2/n The review

Peter Tennant

PWGTennant

Every new strain that establishes itself in the population will initially appear to have a higher transmissability. If one of those gets lucky (by appearing in a capital city, under

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

THREAD There is (rightly) concern about the variant SARS-CoV-2 strains. I want to talk about what this means for vaccines, our future, and why we MUST have contingency plans.This thread

Marc Lipsitch

mlipsitch

This week @US_FDA called for confirmed infection (+-symptoms) as a primary or secondary endpoint in #SARSCoV2 #vaccine trials. Last year @rebeccajk13 @Steve_Bellan Rui Wang and Matt HItchings we recently proposed

Sargon Maradkel

TheRealMaradkel

This is a weekly reminder it's been: 103 DAYS since Dr. Ioannidis @METRICStanfordconducted a study that concluded people

Matt M - Just A Concerned Citizen

MMunzan

As a liver transplant patient, I probably know more about the human autoimmune system then this guy does. Am I a Doctor? Nope. But I have to take drugs to

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

Really worrying document from SAGE published, modelling 'population immunity'."When R is 1.1, only 9% of the remaining susceptible population need to be infected for R to fall to 1, solely

Jennifer Pagliaro

jpags

Toronto Public Health is releasing new socio-economic data (race, income, etc.) about COVID-19 cases at 2PM. I'll tweet here Dr. Eileen de Villa, the city's medical officer of health, said

Amy Greer

AmyGreerKalisz

A cautionary COVID about exposure, elementary school, asymptomatic infections, household transmission, school vs. community transmission, and the need for paid sick days. A real life family story shared with

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

India has 1.3 billion people. 4 times that of the US. What’s going on is just amazing and needs in depth immunologic studies. These are raw numbers! When I adjust

Sam Connor

criprights

Apart from the very decent humanitarian arguments @billbowtell raised on #qanda, there are some real problems around #gigifoster’s ideas around sacrificing thousands of Australians to #COVID19au. Primarily - it won’t

Covidpath

covidpath

Makes sense that testing for monitoring shouldn't require the same exacting specifications as diagnostic testing. Even the Abbott rapid test machine the White House uses is not 100% accurate. But

Ranu Dhillon

RanuDhillon

1/ Based on our work on Ebola & Zika, when Covid hit in January, we called for mass screening with rapid tests as a way to stop Covid in US

Justin Madders MP

justinmadders

Here is a reminder of some of the failings in the past 12 months that have led to so many infections & deaths-1.The PM missed 5 cobra meetings at start2.

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