#Infected

1) I wanted share some data from a manuscript that just wen online at https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.30.20085613v1. This was spearheaded by the fantastic Dr. Ania Wajnberg in collaboration with many parts of
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I’m sooo ANGRY about this - Trump WH & its CDC w/ no advance notice removed warnings that singing in church choirs can spread the coronavirus. THEY SUDDENLY DELETED IT!
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1) Just days after Premier François Legault floated the idea of possibly easing some restrictions in Outaouais, a #COVID19 outbreak flared up on Saturday in a private seniors’ residence in
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@carlheneghan Why is nobody talking about the minimum of 99 days that the super spreading virus was in UK before lockdown? Mindful that during this time there was no lockdown,
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1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 211Now 7 months into the U.S. pandemic and 3 weeks from the election, everybody is exhausted and overwhelmed. Everyone's new question seems to be, “are
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I keep seeing references to the "COVID-19 Antibody Seroprevalence" studies from Stanford—who wouldn't want to believe the infected # was 50-85x bigger than the confirmed count, meaning *far* lower hospitalization
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Michael Baum in the spectator argues that it's foolish to compare countries. I couldn't disagree more. This thread examines why.https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-foolishness-of-comparing-different-countries-coronavirus-outcomes Understa
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Post this lockdown we are going to again be faced with a lobbyist demand for careless rushed opening based this time on the idea that IFR will have fallen because
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In the COVID19 era @ScottHalpernMD reminded me that the most common refrain nowadays is "All models are wrong but some are useful." Here's a walkthrough of how we built a
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Where America Didn’t Stay Home Even as the Virus Spreadhttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/02/us/coronavirus-social-distancing.html Stay-at-home orders have nearly halted travel for most Americans, but people in Florida, the Southeast and oth
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Some medieval #magic. (Bonus: Look closely and you can see parchmenter’s tool marks in the upper left and lower right quadrants). #Manuscripts #parchment Related trivia time!Kieckhefer (1998) gives a few
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*REPORT ALERT* This paper investigates the groups & economic sectors in Wales most significantly affected by the current pandemic. Workers in shutdown sectors account for 𝟏𝟓.𝟔% 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠-𝐚𝐠𝐞
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New paper on the stability of Wolbachia in mosquitoes is out today on bioRxiv. Thread.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/853473v1 Remember the wMelPop or ‘popcorn’ strain of Wolbachia? It was introduced into mosquitoes to shorten
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THREAD : ALARM BELLS RINGING Some really worrying developments have taken place this week across Europe and in the UK. However the mainstream media don’t seem to be giving it
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Are contact tracing apps able to get us out of the #COVID19 crisis? A thread. 1/12 The idea behind contact tracing: find the contacts of an infected person - they
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It is the year 2033. You enter the decon lobby of your corporate campus. Everyone including you takes off their gasketed masks, breathing in spores lingering in the air of
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