#Infection

Where America Didn’t Stay Home Even as the Virus Spreadhttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/02/us/coronavirus-social-distancing.html Stay-at-home orders have nearly halted travel for most Americans, but people in Florida, the Southeast and oth
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Deep Dive!This is an important thread about testing for SARS-CoV-2 which will explain:-why herd immunity is possible at 10-20%-why testing has really let us down and led to bad policy
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Today I’ll only share one thread with you. I had an online lecture earlier and spent some time preparing other activities for my course All my lectures have been online
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1/ I’m seeing so many photos of unlabelled pre-prepared syringes in all sorts of locations. It’s freaking this pharmacist out! Please consider labelling them and getting clean transport containers. https://www.ismp-canada.org/download/s
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It is the year 2033. You enter the decon lobby of your corporate campus. Everyone including you takes off their gasketed masks, breathing in spores lingering in the air of
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~3.2 million people may now have #COVID19 ~4.7% or 1 in 21. ~10% in LondonAssume: 2,822 dead (hosp +20%); IFR 1%; Adj. days to death ~18So ~282k were infected
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This, while not unexpected for anyone who has been paying attention, is an absolute outrage. Will we look up from our day-to-day concerns and pay attention? Will we actually *see*
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1) As #COVID19 outbreaks pop up all over the province — from a Laval dinner party to a cluster of cases at a Quebec City microbrewery — the province is
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Reading the transcript of Whitty/Vallance lecture yesterday. I quote: “so about eight per cent, so 3 million or so people, may have been infected and have antibodies. It means that
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Hey. Remember when Lara said people succumb to their EDS bc it's easier??That looking too sick is bad and you[r internalised ableism] should always want to win? And how that
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India-wide lockdowns for 21 days. Modi - "If we don't handle these 21 days well, then our country, your family will go backwards by 21 years". Food & essentials provision
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RAMBLING MORE ABOUT c!PURPLED LORE BECAUSE I'VE FINALLY BEEN FED - A NEW AND VERY LONG THREAD /DSMP /RP Part 1 please read my brainrot:https://twitter.com/juckport/status/1370494085929316355 OK SO FIRST OF
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Myth: polio was already declining before the introduction of the polio vaccine in 1955Fact: the epidemics were actually getting worsehttps://ourworldindata.org/grapher/reported-paralytic-polio-cases-and-deaths-in-the-united-states-since-1910 1952: pe
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1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 34Long thread today (sorry); lots to cover after that thing we used to call a weekend.@UCSFHospitals, we’re on downslope, w/ 17 cases, 3 intubated. Still
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THREAD: 1. Many are asking questions about the latest RCT on hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), preprinted on @medrxivpreprint Chen A, et al. Efficacy of HCQ in patients with COVID-19: results of a
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LA County just released the results of their antibody study. Tests found that 4.1% of the county's population has antibodies to the coronavirus. That figure is 55 times higher than
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