#Infection

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

Italy is a model for our near future, and it suggests that things may be grim 1/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/opinion/italy-coronavirus-naples.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage It's notable that the economic hardship i

Filo

Filoblack

Everybody is concerned over a virus, but the real virus is the human ego... It has infected and spread across the globe, and passed itself down to each new generation.It

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

Let’s talk about the fact that both the attack rate and the death rate among the young is indeed very low with COVID19, unlike most prior pandemics. And let’s speculate

David Shor

DYShor

We Orthodox Jews in NYC have been all the rage for a few weeks now, and I gather most people outside the community have no idea what’s really transpiring here,

Steve Brown

stevebrown2856

(1/x) Back from a break from Twitter, COVID and the UK. I won't be tweeting as much going forward for various reasons, which I will explain later in the thread.

Neville Sanjana

nevillesanjana

As promised, here’s an overview of our study to find host factors required for SARS-CoV-2 infection in human cells. We use a genome-wide CRISPR screen to identify genes (& key

Pinboard

Pinboard

The coronavirus story right now is confusing, full of dogs that didn't bark (places you'd expect to have huge infection rates, that don't). The only common factor is a high

Guerriera di Dio 5:5

fullcircle40

A thread just for kicks and catching upFauci the mad scientist and other articles of interest-https://twitter.com/fullcircle40/status/1288363553280466945 Gain of function is a very controversial practice in the scientific community. Video -

BHIVA

BritishHIVAssoc

@PHE_uk have published the STI and chlamydia screening report for England in 2019. So what are the highlights? (Thread) Rising:There were 468,342 STI diagnoses in England in 2019, a 5%

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

All you need to know about COVID19FACTS NOT FEARCovid 19 is a disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. SARS-CoV-2 is one of 7 coronaviruses known to man. 1/n The pandemic

Tim ➐

acapellascience

My sister is a government-employed speech therapist with no experience in medical patient care. Quebec has decided to send her in as a PAB ravaged care centres, where COVID infection

Tony Breu

tony_breu

1/Why is tricuspid valve (TV) endocarditis more common in those who use intravenous drugs?The portal of entry for most bacteria is the venous system. If quick access to the right-heart

Toby Young

toadmeister

This @FT analysis of the mistakes leading up to lockdown makes the same mistake the Sunday Times analysis did — it assumes the critical error was not locking down earlier.https://www.ft.com/content/aa53173b-eb39-4055-b112-0001c1f6de1b

Cary Gross

cpgYALE

THREAD: Excellent modeling study of college reopening shows weekly #Covid testing led to 37% of student body contracting Covid; with ~biweekly testing, 7.5%. Yikes. 4 major concerns. http://ja.ma/2D9bI93 @ADPaltiel @RWalensky

COVID Impact

CovidSerology

A large Istat survey (64k) of the Italian population finds 2.5% seropositivity rate nationwide. Care homes residents not sampled and overall IFR based on clinically confirmed deaths (35k) comes to

David Elfstrom

DavidElfstrom

1/ I wear an N95 at locations outside of my home. I wear it to the grocery store, pharmacy and my doctor's office.It's comfortable, doesn't hurt my ears, doesn't fog