#Asymptomatic

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

Given the recent public statements by several govt advisors regarding opening of schools, here's a thread on evidence around COVID in children:The govt (& UK scientific 'experts') have recently cited

Chagmé💋

chagmed

Keep your distance from those wearing valved respirators:"A person exhibiting symptoms of illness should not wear a valved respirator, because exhaled particles may leave the respirator via the valve and

💀Cliff Skellington💀

pervocracy

Somewhere around April I think, the urgent care clinic I work at was told by the CDC to send in fewer tests. You're overwhelming the lab, we were told. Only

Tarquin

Tarquin_Helmet

Virus invasion volume is the key to surviving COVID-19. If a large enough volume of viruses infect an ordinary healthy body its payload will overwhelm the host and possibly kill.

Danny Boy

Care2much18

The most informative school study from an Irish perspective is probably the large scale study in Belgium.It was conducted by Sciensano (Belgium's National Health Institute) and is arguably the most

Health Nerd

GidMK

Lots of serology happening around the world, so I thought I'd do a thread collating some of the infection-fatality estimates for #COVID19 1/n 2/n INFECTION-fatality rate (IFR) is the rate

ANI

ANI

AICTE and CSIR have embarked on a drug discovery hackathon- this is a high-end hackathon where students are trained with information on how to do computational drug discovery: Principal Scientific

T.J. Smith

TJSmithBmore

I stopped by the supermarket today and struck up a conversation with the cashier. I asked her how she was doing and managing. She responded, “Better.” She continued by telling

Vanessa Murray

VanessaQT

(1/4) It’s not enough for Trump to ruin American government, credibility, and our reputation abroad.He has to ruin the credibility of the CDC. People look to the CDC for reliable

Vincent Lee

Rover829

Since the 10-day stretch in January when I worked very odd hours because of the coronavirus outbreak, a ton of people screaming about how the data is not trustworthy. OK

Anne Zink

annezinkmd

With cases rising DHSS is asking that if you test positive you call your close contacts as soon as you are able to do so. The quicker someone knows to

Alexandre Bolze

alexbolze

1/ Thread on the first 2 papers from the COVIDhge consortium (with my small contribution). The 2 studies show that genetic variants & auto-immunity to type 1 interferons explain 10-15%

Ellen Clair Lamb

ECLamb

The next stage of this pandemic is already emerging: victim-blaming. In another two weeks, as the curve flattens in major metropolitan areas, people will start venturing out again and businesses

Fergal Bowers

FergalBowers

A parent of a newly qualified midwife has contacted me and says: “I am sick with worry every time I drop her to work. As a family each of us

thomas rayosun long 🛹

ACoupleOkooks

Let’s talk about this. First we learn that there’s no passport immunity from this virus (you can get it again), and we know that a large percentage of those who

Agonisti

agonisti

1/x You'll be hearing a lot about the term "case fatality rate" in COVID-19 discussions. It's the reference indicator often used to compare how lethally bad COVID-19 is relative to