#Infected

Marcel Salathé

marcelsalathe

The blog post by the tech lead of the TraceTogether app starts out very reasonable, but ends up with a vague non-sequitur ("additional API refinements will be needed").https://blog.gds-gov.tech/automated-contact-tracing-is-not-a-coronavirus

Kathy Flaherty

ConnConnection

Ok, it looks like the majority of people do NOT know what happens to people who are found not guilty by reason of insanity. I don’t know what happens in

Sangxa

sangxa

“Acclaimed epidemiologist Prof Salim Abdool Karim will lead an investigation into the coronavirus outbreak at St Augustine’s Hospital in Durban.” “Netcare management yesterday moved swiftly to deny that medical staff

Tanguy Filloux

TanguyFilloux

1/x Je n’ai lu nul part l’hypothèse que le #seafoodMarket de Wuhan était en fait le premier #cluster ayant fait démarrer l’épidémie. La ressemblance de l’environnement avec les abattoirs ou

John Bye

_johnbye

After claiming last month that cases weren't rising (when they clearly were) due to errors in how he calculated the positivity rates, @carlheneghan is now saying that "while detected cases

Tamer Nawar

Tamer_Nawar

/1 Thread about evidence & logical consistency of @RIVM advice on official FAQ (20-04).I have some questions about evidence and possible inconsistencies.NL: https://www.rivm.nl/coronavirus-covid-19/vragen-antwoordenENG: https://www.rivm.nl/en/nov

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

Background: Why the world is at risk is not just because of one coronavirus. Why we predicted it in 2006Transition to Extinction: Pandemics in a connected world. "Are people in

Robert Plenge

rplenge

Increasing evidence points to monocytes and macrophages as key players in the maladaptive immune response to SARS-CoV-2 and the disease it causes, COVID-19. A thread with emphasis on key mechanisms

Alan Baxter

AlanBixter

So: What is Wrong with COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine in Australia? A thread.After difficulties with compliance to COVID-19 stay-at-home orders for returning travellers, Hotel Quarantine became the mainstay of infection management

George Taiaroa

georgetaiaroa

George here, with a brief summary of our revised preprint; the first native RNA sequence of SARS-CoV-2 using @nanopore, and a data-driven inference of genetic features and evolutionary rate. 1/12https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.05.9761

Peter English #FBPE

petermbenglish

A problem with privatisation of testing.Now that we are routinely testing lots of people - including care home staff and residents, and NHS staff - we are picking up positive

Gujarat History

GujaratHistory

Humankind is most thankful to Dr.Edward Jenner who invented viral infectious disease smallpox vaccine in 1796 AD.He saved billions of lives.I have seen smallpox patients in my childhood. In my

Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺

fascinatorfun

Dominic Cummings, coronavirus and lockdown – a timeline | The Guardian“Cummings himself wrote: “At the end of March and for the first two weeks of April I was ill, so

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO

Media briefing on #COVID19 with @DrTedros. #coronavirus https://www.pscp.tv/w/cV82xTI2MTAyMHwxUGxLUW1RYlhPWktFaRKRL5vJpO-_FdSWOFD_SM4Neb6sq0PgS6TbKlAKFxs= "Globally, nearly 1.5 million confirmed cases of #COVID19 have now been reported to WHO, a

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

What's going on in social care? (thread)I spent the day in Hove, talking to social care providers and relatives of those in care.Everyone knew that this was a sector in

dasPost-CV

dasvee

"Top KCDC officials said in recent briefings that the most likely possibility is reactivation of remaining viruses in patients' systems. If a patient had not developed sufficient immunity against the