#Infections

Dhruva Jaishankar

d_jaishankar

The #COVID19 case fatality rates (CFR) - number of deaths as a percentage of confirmed infections - for places affected early on are:Hubei, 6.6% 5.4% 14.3% 10.2% 16.5% 15.2%Contrast

Orla Hegarty

Orla_Hegarty

[Thread] #Covid19 Indoor dining super-spread ‘Eleven of the 37 patrons who dined at the Smile Buffalo Thai restaurant on the night of December 21 tested positive to the virus, after

Mark_Coughlan

Mark_Coughlan

Thread contd: Gap was 4,000 yesterday. Now it's much bigger again.The system wasn't designed to handle the influx of testing, Prof Nolan said he's accounted for it in models.This means

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

I have just received information about a family that has locked up their child at home in isolation because she complained of some aches in her body. They suspected the

🇺🇸 One Nation Under God 🇺🇸

Leo04847568

We are not in a pandemic.How do I know?I have eyes and I trust what they see.Ask yourself this question:If the virus is so contagious and so deadly, then where

Eugene Ong

uginong

Summary of ‘Naturally mutated spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2 variants show 2 differential levels of cell entry’ preprint by Ozono et al., 2020. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.15.151779Disclaimer: This summary is shared as a first-time

Indiana University Infectious Diseases Fellowship

IUIDfellowship

#idboardreview 30 F polyarthritis, migraine, multiple sclerosis on rituximab, prednisone, recent sinusitis,has school going kids presents in winter w/F, HA, photophobia, meningismus progresses to encephalitis. No improvement w/ acyclovir &a

Margaret McCartney

mgtmccartney

government planning even more asymptomatic testing (screening) of people with no symptoms using lateral flow testing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55604677 this may not be a good thing. may even be a bad policy....

Kevin McKernan 🙂

Kevin_McKernan

It’s 2020 and it’s frightening that no one seems to care about the Nuremberg code.Let’s walk through how many of these tenets are violated each day with qPCR testing of

Sam Bowman

s8mb

This is a good thread about what we need to do now. We have a vaccine, the end is in sight, Spring is coming - we just need to get

Dr. MAAWEYA ELAEED

DrMaaweya

10 months into the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, what we have learned1.SARS-CoV-2 is not only emergent virus we have to concern about.2.SARS-CoV-2 is going to be circulating and stay with us forever.3.I

Rachel Axon

RachelAxon

Can't believe we're still doing this nonsense, but since we are I have more questions. And reading material!Join me, fellow Floridians, in understanding what it takes to get and host

Tomas Pueyo

tomaspueyo

Cases in the UK are up and to the right.Probably due to the new strain.What does that mean for your country? Deaths are ~2 weeks delayed vs cases in

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

Japan is using big teams of public health nurses to perform "cluster busting" contact tracing. A thread summarizing their approach, as described in this translated (almost official) guidance document now

PNWForestKing

PNWForestKing

#WASHINGTON: If you are denied equal access (facilities, goods, services, experience) to a public business - treated differently than others -- due to not wearing a mask b/c of a

Katherine Horton

kc_horton

It's #InternationalMensDay and this year's theme is "Better Health for Men and Boys", so let's take a minute to talk about and #TB. TB prevalence is over twice as

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