#Distancing

John Mandrola, MD

drjohnm

Thread on a potential silver lining of #COVID19 My friend @BenMazer is a pathologist and he's noticed huge declines in specimens obtained for cancer diagnoses. Reason: hospitals have stopped elective

Chris Yiu

clry2

Putting countries into lockdown / shelter in place buys us time to figure out our next move, but the clock is ticking. Let's talk about mass testing and contact tracing

Alana Jones

alanacjones_

I’m still thinking about a recent exchange in the context of a larger pattern of strangers both online and irl being condescending to me on topics I’ve studied deeply. Part

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

Let me summarise a really important new #COVID19 modelling paper from Rosalyn Moran, Karl Friston and colleagues from Kings and UCL, London. Published in ArXiV. (1) https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/covid-19/Moran_arXiv_2020.pdf "We sought to

Governor Mike DeWine

GovMikeDeWine

Today I want to talk about two very essential components that help build the foundation for our ability to carefully begin to re-open Ohio: Testing CapacityContact Tracing Testing: #Ohio, like

Chloe Condon 🎀

ChloeCondon

Really wish I could share some pics from my walk to the pharmacy yesterday, but after having someone identify my neighborhood from some graffiti when I lived in SF, I

Joseph Allen

j_g_allen

Superspreader events are key to #Covid19.To limit the impact, we need to #StaySMARTS --> Stay home when sickM--> Mask when outA--> Avoid large gatheringsR--> Refresh indoor airT--> Ten feet is

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

ThreadThe pandemic hasn't impacted Jim Acosta's appetite, I'm glad to see.But Acosta isn't really the problem. WE are.Too many of us are under the spell of the Fallacy of the

Marc Lipsitch

mlipsitch

Comment on https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764658 with @sarahcobey @KeyaJoshi3 shows conclusions change dramatically if use more appropriate Wallinga-Teunis method for R(t) estimation. Comment on the site and at https://github.com/

Dr Dominic Pimenta

DrDomPimenta

This is deeply pseudoscientific and dangerous rubbish. I wouldn't normally amplify, but in this case given the public health emergency I've made an exception. The full version is here: https://youtu.be/DUDg5ossirU Otherwise

William Gillis 🏴

rechelon

In 2017 everyone was like "antifa was just invented by Hillary to murder grandpas who want lower taxes" and I engaged at length in a symposium at C4SS to defend

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

drsanjaygupta

The @WHO recently announced that there are at least six Covid-19 vaccines in clinical trials. That’s encouraging, but these trials normally take years or decades to complete. We’ll go into

Ingrid M

iMusing

government will simply tout the uptake rate regardless of whether people use it the way the design requires for tracing effectiveness. It is a normalising of government tracking exercise, not

Kelly Bauer

BauerJournalism

Mayor Lori Lightfoot has a press conference at 1 p.m. where she'll announce the city's open streets plan.I'll live tweet. Follow for updates and let me know if you have

UT Health Comm

uthealthcomm

The CHC will be sharing #healthcomm materials we're finding in use around the country regarding #COVID19.@UTexasMoody @DellMedSchool @BMore_Healthy's simple, effective message about #socialdistancing. Picking relevant icons or images to suppo

Brett Kelman

BrettKelman

Yesterday, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (@GovBillLee) ordered Tennesseans to stay home, saying cell phone tracking data helped convince him to take stronger action to stop coronavirus. I dug into that