#Eurosurveillance

Carl A. B. Pearson

Thanks to the folks at @cmmid_lshtm and @SacemaQuarterly, and particularly @carivs, @kathmoreilly, Anna Foss, and @SACEMAdirector. This work is now peer reviewed at: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.18.2

Amy Maxmen, PhD

NEW flight report on corona transmission on flights:13 people appear to have been infected on a 7-hr flight to Ireland this summer, leading to 59 cases as passengers visited friends

Prof Francois Balloux

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The extent to which #COVID19 can cause sequelae is a critical question. A new study on Swiss military recruits found no effect on strength but a decrease in aerobic capacity

How much could potential biases in early data affect our current understanding of COVID-19? This question crops up a lot, so let's look at three crucial aspects of that early

Recent estimates (including our analysis led by @timwrussell: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.12.2000256) have suggested 0.5–1% of COVID-19 infections may potentially be fatal overall. Some have interpreted this

Is the reproduction number currently 0.7, or 0.85, or 0.641? Was it bigger yesterday than today? A thread on real-time estimation and false precision... 1/ Most real-time estimation of R

People can't stop talking about schools and #COVID19 Here's a thread on school transmission studies!Summary:- If prevalence high in the community, it will be high in schools and some will

EUA (NY), Japão (Diamond Princess), China (Wuhan), Espanha (Madrid) e França.: em todos esses países o vírus matou entre 0,7 e 1,2% dos infectados. Não precisamos testar esse números aqui.

Christian Althaus

There is increasing interest in superspreading for COVID-19, not least due to an excellent article by @kakape on the topic 1/9https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/why-do-some-covid-19-patients-infect-many-others-whereas-most-don-t-spread

A Marm Kilpatrick

New #COVID19 serosurvey in Italy. Report in Italian so I couldn't read it carefully. Nice thread from @stats_q with some details. Some @nataliedean @AdamJKucharski @isabelrodbar are questioning results b/c they

MAJOR THREAD: This Israel article is going to alter the debate about schools. It has a lot of useful information, but its framing, and its title (which is the only

@inschool4life, Nathaniel Hupert and I recently crunched some numbers suggesting millions of undetected COVID cases in the US the month of March.What have we learned since then, what do we

In 2017, 26 164 people were diagnosed with #HIV in the 31 countries of the EU/EEAThe overall slight decline in new diagnoses in the seems to be driven by

A common criticism of population-based epidemic models is that they don't account for individual-level variation in transmission (i.e. superspreading events). But how much of a problem is this? 1/ For

Jonathan Teghtmeyer

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The minister is largely correct here. The hard cap of 15 students proposed by the NDP is probably unachievable. Availability of teachers and classroom space would be an issue. A

Dr Dominic Pimenta

A thread on #schoolsreopening schools and #COVID by a doctor (also a parent and a brother to a teacher) /1 Do children get coronavirus? Yes, although only very rarely get