#Infection

Andrea Baldi

calippoebbira

Spot the differences: 1st = @WHO, 2nd = @rivm Sources: https://www.who.int/publications-detail/home-care-for-patients-with-suspected-novel-coronavirus-(ncov)-infection-presenting-with-mild-symptoms-and-management-of-contacts andhttps://www.rivm.nl/en

David Paton

cricketwyvern

A new national lockdown would have devastating effects on the economy, businesses, jobs, isolation, loneliness, mental health.Even if infections were increasing rapidly, it would not be a proportionate response. But

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

So @EMA_News is finally doing some decent communication/visualization of risks/benefits of vaccination with AstraZeneca’s #covid19 shot. Quick thread with their graphs: They looked at hospitalisations, ICU admissions and deaths from

Paul Nuki

PaulNuki

1/ What is the risk/benefit calculation for Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine vis a vis rare clots? Three VERY CLEAR sets of charts have been released by the EMA showing the risk

Danny Boy

Care2much18

This level of infection can't continue forever in Northern Ireland and the good news is, it won't. But their recent numbers just keep powering to new records and they've now

Paul Novosad

paulnovosad

I don't understand our gameplan. I thought the gameplan was flatten the curve so the health system doesn't get overrun.What is the return to flattening after that? If you flatten

Tristan Cope

tristan_cope

Coronavirus: No, “the cure” is not “worse than the disease”. Anyone telling you this either doesn’t know what they are talking about or is peddling their own agenda.This is not

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Reconstruction of transmission chains (i.e. who infected whom) is a sophisticated subfield in infection disease epidemiology. This atrocious drivel masquerading as science, with no stats, no genomic sequencing, no nothing

Bloom Lab

jbloom_lab

Lots of recent discussion about #SARSCoV2 re-infections, with 2 pre-prints describing possible examples. To contextualize these re-infections, I'd like to discuss the following papers, which document same-season re-infection with influe

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.26.20202267v1.full.pdfNeat paper from Prof Gomez’ group at Oxford: “Becayse the model is fitted to observed deaths, the estimates of cumulated numbers infected & herd immunity threshol

James Wilson

jamewils

India's #COVID19 trajectory 1 to 1 lakh cases: 139 days1 lakh to 2 lakh cases: 16 days2 lakh to 3 lakh cases: 11 days3 lakh

Stockspotify

stockspotify

Cannot believe people dont know $BCRX has a drug that could cure this #CoronavirusOutbreak. Every crap co out there $NVAX $NNVC $AEMD has popped hard yet a legit name $BCRX

M Matt Frank

dmmf7

New thread; Date; estimates of the total infected % in NYC, for the whole population (Tot inf %), the estimate of partial infected % - what NY state surveyed -

Shane Woodford

WoodfordinDK

#Denmark has recorded 207 new #COVID19 infection cases and one #coronavirus death since stats were last updated Friday afternoon. The last time new infections exceeded 200 in #Danmark was Apr.

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

If epidemic growing, question isn’t really ‘are more restrictions needed?’ The question is ‘given restrictions will eventually have to come in, do you want to have COVID at a high

PM of Israel

IsraeliPM

Prime Minister Netanyahu toured the command center of the task force on cutting the chain of infection at IDF Home Front Command HQ in Ramla and held an assessment and