#Infection

Dr Jenner’s House

DrJennersHouse

What did we do before vaccines? A thread Smallpox was one of history's most feared diseases, a killer and a mutilator. Its most severe form had a mortality rate of

Danny Boy

Care2much18

Deaths:UK - 891 per millionIreland - 335 per millionThat's according to The Times analysis of UK's excess.It's understated how much of an achievement this was from Ireland to have such

Jim Woodgett

jwoodgett

1/ This is a lucid and very well thought out article on Covid-19 that touches on the key elements that must be addressed. It’s from a US perspective but Canada

ECHO

atxecho

What happens if Prop B passes? ECHO looked at the data to discern the impact of criminalizing homelessness on the people currently living unhoused in our community. THREAD Meet

Paul Rohr

pevohr

Doh! Just realized lockdown, quarantine, + isolation are ALL social distancing measures to confine spread w/in different scopes. To do each safely takes skill. To change scale, need more/better info.Following

Zeal A. Jacobson

zeal_a

1. I saw both @DrJoeAbah & @CCSoludo discussion on COVID19 response/reaction and I thought to add my own perspective on the matter. Please understand that there isn't likely to be

Sarah Hallett

DrSarahHal

This week, I and other @theBMA committee chairs wrote to Trust CEOs across England to urge them to:- adopt risk scoring tools- alongside measures to allow staff at risk of

Nick Gourevitch

nickgourevitch

Week 16 of @NavigatorSurvey out today w/ lots of new polling on schools. This issue is complex, but one thing isn't: The public has so lost faith in Trump on

Rachel Maddow MSNBC

maddow

Hi, Mr. President -- thanks for tweeting that interview. Gen. Semonite and the Army Corps are indeed doing great work, but at nowhere near the scale that is needed.We're hundreds

Jennifer J. Carroll, PhD MPH (she/her)

veruka2

5/ ...put warehouse and delivery staff at risk. She had been doing all the homework. Her friend from class, in a different state, had been calling her daily to explain

keep your social distance from me

murakamiwood

1/30 In two forthcoming pieces, I examine #Japan's response to the #COVID19 #coronavirus #pandemic. I'll summarize the main non-theoretical points here (long thread alert!). 2/30 #Japan’s figures have always looked

Tasha Seckel👩🏻‍⚕️

Doctor_Seckel

Being a Healthcare worker in a Pandemic.( A thread) We all know that some jobs are more dangerous than others. Truck drivers, loggers, and construction workers are more likely to

Asaduddin Owaisi

asadowaisi

This country is not an event management company. The people of India are humans who too have dreams & hopes. Don’t reduce our lives to gimmicks of 9 mins, @PMOIndia.

Farzad Mostashari

Farzad_MD

1/ I was glad to be asked by @ScottGottliebMD & @ASlavitt to sign on to this important bipartisan proposal to CongressLet me tell you why I liked this proposal, and

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

A perspective on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, on what I consider a positive day in the pandemic: Firstly a reminder; this virus is highly infectious and causes a severe, often fatal,

Heather Knight

hknightsf

Virtual learning doesn’t work and requires a parent, usually the mom, to be the all-day teacher’s assistant. Plus it leaves kids who were already behind for various reasons in the