#Infections

Mr. B

yeahnaa333

I replied to a thread several months ago in response to someone else that covered the effectiveness of mask usage which I constantly link to when conversing with anti-maskers, but

Erin C. Sanders, MSN, WHNP-BC (She/Her)

ErinSandersNP

THREAD: 1/ Given my interactions with @ASlavitt and @jeremyfaust yesterday, I decided to make a compiled list of data on asymptomatic transmission. This is not complete, but the most striking

Barbara Melville-Jóhannesson

keyeri

I’ve rustled up table of #LongCovid symptomologies, using my years of no medical expertise whatsoever. It's not as accessible as I'd like – I will update and bedazzle after feedback.

Victims of Communism

VoCommunism

The Timeline of the @WHO's #coronavirus outbreak response—and alignment with CCP propaganda claims—underscores why the WHO needs reform. http://www.victimsofcommunism.org/sb/chinese-communist-party-world-health-organization-culpability-in-coronav

Tom Inglesby

T_Inglesby

The US gov threatened to cut off aid to @WHO today. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/world/coronavirus-updates-news-live.html#link-5e3b2c82 This would be a mistake on many levels. 1/x .@WHO is the organization that provides health guidance and

Christine Stabell Benn

StabellBenn

ORAL POLIO VACCINE (OPV) – SOME CLARIFICATION. I’m a big OPV fan, but when I write about OPV I get negative feedback. So time to go through why I’m a

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

Daily #COVID19 case counts are increasing in the US and we seem to hitting a third wave (or second surge if you'd prefer). Here I wanted to look at how

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

The @CDCgov recommendations to institutions of higher education are a mess. While some universities are struggling with how often to test, we get this zinger from CDC: "CDC does not

Sangxa

sangxa

“On 9 March, a patient who had recently traveled to Europe and had symptoms of COVID-19 visited the emergency department of St Augustine’s, a private hospital in Durban, South Africa.”

K. Travis Ballie

KTravisBallie

THREAD: By now you’ve prob seen this iconic photo from Denver (H/T Alyson McClaran) of an apparent first responder in scrubs counter protesting a Trump supporter who wants to lift

Devan Sinha

DevanSinha

Fantasy commentary letter in Lancet (not a peer reviewed study)!It's an unreasonable proposition for most countries like the UK to achieve elimination + constraints of reality negates claimed economic and

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

I wanted to respond to news of #COVID19 death in Santa Clara County on Feb 6. This is an interesting, if slightly puzzling, data point. 1/9 We know that there

Claudina MICHAL-TEITELBAUM

MartinFierro769

1/n L'Islande est le pays qui a fait le plus de tests PCR au monde. Elle a testé 6% de la population et commencé avant même que le premier cas

Infectious Diseases

InfectiousDz

So what's the big deal about taking unproven therapies?Well, with convalescent plasma, the most recent study https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.12.20169359v1 showed 8.7% survived if given treatment in first 3 days, 11.9% su

Seána

GrantSana

1/2As the UI debate moves forward it’s unnerving for me, because honestly I’ve never felt truly at home here, I mean it wasn’t set up for me to flourish. However

Dr. Ali Nouri

AliNouriPhD

1. CDC: nearly 11,000 exposed to coronavirus on flights. Agency investigated 1,600 cases of people who flew while at risk of spreading the coronavirus, identifying nearly 11,000 people who potentially