#Infection

Ravi Rannan-Eliya

ravirannaneliya

Situation continues to deteriorate.There's a weekly cycle in testing numbers, so best to compare weekly. Comparing Fri (7/5) with Fri (30/4) daily tests (25,200) almost indentical. Everything else has got

Crystal moth

Prolapsarian

Trying to explain what's going on in Britain to a friend abroad: we have a fake lockdown where everyone still goes out and half the country are still going to

Health Nerd

GidMK

A thought I've been having a lot recently - everyone says that waves 2 & 3 of COVID-19 have been markedly different from the firstThis is often used to support

Matt Ballantine

ballantine70

Strikes me that one of the UK's biggest challenges at the moment is that we have been left totally unprepared emotionally for what is about to come over this winter.

Ms. Heref Oryou ✊

SprkJoy4BtrDays

THREAD 1/**This recent video from Dr. John Campbell is important**Listen to what he says about WELL PEOPLE spreading infection.https://youtu.be/bUfuF3Il4ik via @YouTubeThis is who Dr Campbell is. The WHO recommends following

gisèle gordon

giselegordon

1/With the 4,456 new official Covid-19 cases in Ontario today and the majority of Covid-19 cases in Canada now being VOCs, maybe it's a good time to update what we

Michel Boyer

BoyerMichel

Personal note: Might be a bit of a surprise to you if you have followed my summer biking adventures (Ottawa>Kingston>Ottawa>Laurentians>Ottawa) But this morning, was inspired (read till the end) and

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

“6 feet apart” or “mask up” are cool slogans but 8 months into this epidemic, we should be communicating better than this. People don’t need more slogans. They need to

el gato malo

boriquagato

less than 3% of positive PCR tests for covid were actually viable virus even at a 35 Ct.97% could not be cultured/were not live. these people were not sick nor

Paul Bradshaw

paulbradshaw

I wrote an article for @datajournalism with lots of tips on generating data-driven story ideas and identifying potential data sources for covering #coronavirus - read it here: https://datajournalism.com/read/longreads/reporting-beyond-the-case-number

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

VIRUS REACTIVATION! This is bad: The coronavirus may be “reactivating” in people who have been cured of the illness, according to Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 51 patients

Phil Booth

EinsteinsAttic

Certainly this What are the ACTUAL problems we are trying to solve here? [N.B. These may not be the same as what you're being told...]And on which of these problems

Matthew Bonds

MatthewBonds3

There is broad misunderstanding of how to interpret and best use models. Infectious disease models a la @neil_ferguson are best interpreted as providing a picture of what happens if we

Kano Chronicle

KanoChronicle

TRUTH ABOUT THE RUMOURED MASS DEATH IN KANOThread There has been rumoured mass death of the elderly in Kano with individuals likening it with COVID-19 pandemic. In separate reports by

Max Burns

themaxburns

The @GOP has responded to catastrophically to #COVID19 because over the decades their party has been reduced to little more than holding voter attention through culture wars and social wedge

David Paton

cricketwyvern

The Scottish Chief Medical Officer’s Covid-19 Note giving the evidence base for the new restrictions makes for remarkable reading.It indicates new infections in Scotland could reach over 35k per day