#Infected

Jed

TheJedReport

The testing situation in U.S. has improved, but because we dithered for so long, it’s still nowhere near as good as it is in countries like Germany.Let’s take a walk

Dan Honig

rambletastic

My family and I took an @StateDept evacuation flight from Senegal to the US on Friday. I’d like to say a few things about that, focusing on 1) The people

Senator John Cornyn

JohnCornyn

By themselves, the number of tests don't tell us much. CDC says "not everyone needs to be tested for COVID-19," https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/testing.htmlgoing. "Most people have mild illness and are ab

Cleavon MD

Cleavon_MD

7/24/2020 #COVID Update. I've worked two weeks here in Yuma, Arizona so I can discuss what I'm seeing. The first shift had a few hypoxic super sick COVID patients, but

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

In June, after reopening, #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 cases in Florida began to rise. Hospitalisations & deaths, however, stayed low.Perhaps it just wasn't so bad after all? Perhaps something had changed?We see

Sohrab Ahmari

SohrabAhmari

Once you start debunking mass hysteria over outbreaks, it gets easy, because the same patterns repeat themselves.Relax about the new Chinese virus.https://nypost.com/2020/01/23/dont-buy-the-media-hype-over-the-new-china-virus/ The Wuhan virus is repe

History Under Your Feet

HistorifyToday

#TodayInHistory The polio vaccine developed by Dr Jonas Salk is declared to be safe in 1952, and he would later make it freely available to the public on May 1,

Andrew Morris

ASPphysician

As @JPSoucy points out in this excellent , we have a experienced a considerable drop in testing. The question we don't know is: how many should we be testing? @skepticalIDdoc

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

I received this circular to all staff from Great Ormond St hospital today. 73 out of 181 staff have tested positive and 318 staff members off sick. (THREAD 1) An

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Lyricalswordz

I know that COVID-19 has a lot of us thinking about systems, and the ways they are oppressing and failing so many people in this country. I’ve been thinking how

Sugabelly 🌕

sugabelly

I’m really disturbed by the death of the DPO of Mushin and by some deaths of policemen I’ve seen.This is something I’ve been talking about for a long time and

Jessica Watson

drjessicawatson

So much in the media about #COVIDー19 testing, it seems important to correct some misconceptions. Thread Two types of test:Viral RNA tests - RT-PCR - swab tests - to detect

c0nc0rdance

c0nc0rdance

Let's talk about *window period* and how it makes everything in diagnostics complicated and difficult.Window period is the time between infection and when a diagnostic test becomes useful. This is

Christopher Mims

mims

Delivery robots were supposed to be about cost and convenience.Then coronavirus hit, and everyone who could make them pivoted to helping.From North Dakota to Tel Aviv, Hangzhou to Sacramento, this

James Todaro, MD

JamesTodaroMD

1/ Hong Kong reports the first confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection today.Although it is only a single case, it supports the theory that T-cell immunity (as opposed to antibodies) may

Roger White

rogerlwhite

#covid_19 #scotland Am I missing something here? A thread. There was an outbreak of coronavirus cases at a conference held by Nike at an Edinburgh hotel on 26/27 February. Many