#Infected

Amy Cho, MD MBA

amychomd

(Author unknown)This post is for my healthcare workers, docs, surgeons, Nurses, aids, and ems, but also support staff.There is no emergency in a pandemic You as a healthcare worker are

Andrew Lee

andrewleedr

For public health & infectious disease specialists, the tale of "Typhoid Mary" is legendary. Mary, a cook in New York, had typhoid and over several decades managed to infect at

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

This modelling study from Sweden suggests 26% of Stockholm county will have been infected by May 1st (https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/contentassets/2da059f90b90458d8454a04955d1697f/skattning-peakdag-antal-infekterade-covid-19-utbrottet-stockholms

Dr Philip Lee

drphiliplee1

Ok, R, what is it and why it's important, thread. For the uninitiated, R0 is the basic reproduction number for a disease. This is basically how many people one infected

Jonathan Mountstevens

MrMountstevens

Having now had experience of responding to a positive Covid case, the contradictions in the current arrangements have become clearer to me. It seems that they serve neither health nor

Mathieu M.J.E. Rebeaud

Damkyan_Omega

Evidence for increased breakthrough rates of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in BNT162b2 mRNA vaccinated individualsPapier (preprint) sur la vaccination en Israël et les variants. Apparition plus marquée d'infection postvac avec

Sandeep Kulkarni

moneyworks4u_fa

Thread: Biggest Hysteria ever?The mortality rates for Corona virus for people below 40 is 0.2% & upto 60 it's 1.3%. 95% of the deaths in Italy are of those above

Boo Soon Yew 🇲🇾

BooSoonYew67

An anomaly ?? #Malaysia reported 3 #COVID19 cases from #TawarCluster .. sadly all 3 kids; 10y, 8y, 5y.. most likely infected by their mum, who is probably case 9128.. who

Jen Heemstra

jenheemstra

You've no doubt seen talk about "reopening" the country. In Georgia, it's even happening. Is this a good idea? We say that we need more testing in order to know.

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ Another point about lockdowns and their effectiveness or lack thereof. The Germans found that a hard lockdown reduces R to 1 or so. But in a place like NYC,

BBC News (World)

BBCWorld

A suspected case of bubonic plague has been reported to authorities in ChinaIt’s not known how the patient got infected, but the country is on alertThe plague is one of

Adam W Gaffney

awgaffney

Regarding the recent report of MRI abnormalities in college football players: invoking the precautionary principle when things are unclear is often the best course. And we should do what we

Zain Chagla

zchagla

Thread – Camp in Georgia. At the time epidemic was starting to rise – with daily numbers worse than Ontario near its peak. 238 trainees/staff arrive June 17-21. 363 kids

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA

celinegounder

1/ There seems to be some confusion about QUARANTINE versus ISOLATION. Here's an infectious disease epidemiology 101: 2/ QUARANTINE refers to people who have been EXPOSED and may or may

Danny Boy

Care2much18

It's approaching the pinnacle of human conceit to dismiss "rotten luck" as a factor between ending up in Italy-scale devastation and avoiding it. You need to go all the way

@MavourneenRebel

MavourneenRebel

not to call it Cholera (despite the UN testing the infected and finding Cholera), and were pressured by government employees not to reveal the number of infected per yours truly...