#Infections

Emma Beals

ejbeals

2 weeks ago we published an investigation on #COVID19 in Damascus: https://tande.substack.com/p/syria-in-context-investigation-covid Since then, we've worked with Imperial, who modelled that for each recorded death there's likely 50

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

Post holiday, having digested some sites+preprints from last week, I'd like to give my perspective on COVID. Context: I am a genomics + biological data science expert; for most other

Helen McArdle

HelenMcArdle3

1/ UK Pandemic Response is harmful to UK immune health & infection resilience: a thread10 mths of PH messaging: HOW TO STAY SAFE: Hands Face SpaceIsolateAvoid people (vectors)Don't share airMasksSocial

Dr Naomi Wolf

naomirwolf

1/ There are 6819 "positive" COVID tests this week in NYS, per @NYDailyNews via @andrewcuomo's press conference, which is justifying he says draconian new restrictions including 1st Amendment violations of

Resist the Hologram - Stu Cvrk

STUinSD

Thread - COVID-19 Facts That Flatten the Fear1. I just found a website called “flattenthefear(dot)com” that was recently established by the Jobs Creators Network Foundation. Here is how the JCN

Julia Ioffe

juliaioffe

Last month, I told you that my grandmother died of #COVID19. What I didn't tell you is that she also (unintentionally) infected my mother. My mother had already had covid

David Thunder

davidjthunder

—THREAD BEGINS—Here are some un-examined & false convictions circulating in our Western societies about Covid:1. Everyone is equally susceptible to the virus, young & old, healthy & sick.- FALSE 2.

Dinesh S. Thakur

d_s_thakur

This is a limited point about availability of efficacy data for vaccines under development in the context of the approval for CovidShield and Covaxin in India. There have been many

Dr. Ali Nouri

AliNouriPhD

1/Concerning case of reinfection: healthy 45 year old was reinfected with the genetically distinct SARS-CoV-2 variant that harbors the E484K mutation - this is the variant that was recently reported

Maestro ☈ayo

maestro_rayo

1\n How to estimate how dangerous an infectious disease is? What is IFR and CFR? Why, on each side of the fence, they are pulling their eyes out. A thread

Jack Blanchard

Jack_Blanchard_

THREAD 1/Prof Neil Ferguson tells Westminster Insider:“Hopeful” this will be the final lockdown, so long as the PM learns from past mistakes Infection rates are tumbling & primary schools on

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

Big news from Pfizer, with apparent high efficacy (>90%) based on 94 confirmed COVID-19 cases at their interim analysis.A thread on how I interpret this news. Briefly:"Celebrate, but let the

Adam Briggs

ADMBriggs

This week's @PHE_uk COVID surveillance report's just out.Most recent week covered is 11th-17th Jan.Case numbers may have peaked but hospital situation remains critical & deaths continue to rise, with large

Atomsk's Sanakan

AtomsksSanakan

1/XThose behind the Great Barrington Declaration mention herd immunity as a way to address COVID-19.So I'll discuss it. After all, noting herd immunity (in response to vaccine deniers) is 1

Whitney R. Robinson

WhitneyEpi

1/ The data on the hugely disproportionate impacts of #COVID19 on people of color in US are devastating. See table 3.https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6942e2.htm 2/ But it also can feel pretty abstract. What

Songezo Zibi

SongezoZibi

I’ve tried to ignore the pandemic “in the spirit of Christmas”, but I really can’t. Two days ago, my uncle and his wife succumbed to COVID, on the same day.

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