#Infection

Quito Maggi

quito_maggi

My experience the last 4 days has made me extremely sceptical about what #BackToSchool has in store for parents, teachers and childrenA thread about how @ottawahealth dealt with a #COVID19

Karam Bales

karamballes

1/ Thread: Going through the latest SAGE releases, some interesting bits to tease out of it, will write this in bursts over the next day.The main meeting which begins with

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

ThreadOkay, I'm really angry now.Let me explain EXACTLY what a stunning job @realDonaldTrump is doing.And I say that as a person who's lost 50 percent of his net worth.TRUMP WILL

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

In the news craziness, you might have missed bombshell from the CDC DirectorIn a swipe at Dr. Fauci, @CDCDirector Dr Redfield claimed explosion of cases in the South NOT due

Ken Strain

Ken__Strain

Now much more discussion of important role of "vitamin" D (Sun or supplements), in covid-19. The true vitamins A & K2 support related functions, & are likely to help too.

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

Professor Karl Friston is one of the top neuroscience modellers in the world. In this TWO hour video and paper he explains his new COVID-19 model, now sent to SAGE.

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) Montreal on Saturday crossed a grim milestone, reporting a #COVID mortality rate per million population that's now higher than Italy’s. In this thread, I will show how the #pandemic

Kashif Pirzada, MD

KashPrime

Really looking forward to this event later today. Heavyweights in the field discussing how Covid is transmitted. Implications are huge, if we agree its airborne, we can protect billions of

Daniel Hannan

DanielJHannan

People claim that Sweden's liberal response has failed because it has more fatalities than its neighbours. But the purpose of the lockdown was to "flatten the curve" - ie, the

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Они обалдели!The Sputnik V vaccine Ad5 vector is evidently replication competent. The makers apparently neglected to delete E1, so getting this vaccine means being infected with live adenovirus 5.Hence Brazil’s

Pauli Ohukainen, PhD

POhukainen

I find this quite interesting; the estimates for the association between wearing a #mask and some coronavirus infection in non-hc setting (0.56, 95% CI: 0.40-0.79) is roughly the same magnitude

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

A good starter thread-complex on the origins of the Mass Covid Hysteria.https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1239995212572876802?s=20 Mass delusions are our greatest threat.https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1339282595394297860?s=20

United States of Care

USofCare

The #Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the close relationship between our access to affordable care and financial security. It's why @USofCare and its partners developed a second policy agenda for

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

A common criticism of population-based epidemic models is that they don't account for individual-level variation in transmission (i.e. superspreading events). But how much of a problem is this? 1/ For

Amit Paranjape

aparanjape

First Covid-19 reinfection documented in Hong Kong, researchers sayhttps://www.statnews.com/2020/08/24/first-covid-19-reinfection-documented-in-hong-kong-researchers-say/ ".... what appears to be the first confirmed case of Covid-19 re

Leo Reap

Leo_ReapDO

1. Type III hypersensitivity reactions typically develop ~6 h after exposure to antigen.This is the timeframe we are often seeing patients rapidly decompensate in (2L -> 15L -> intubation), usually