#Infections

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

DrTedros

Thank you @DidierPittet, for your longstanding support to @WHO and for calling on #healthworkers to join the #SafeHands challenge. Hand hygiene is essential to prevent infections and keep the

Stephen Reicher

ReicherStephen

It is imperative to get children back to school says Gavin Williamson. I agree."Is there anything more that I can do in order to make that happen?" he asks."if there

Ash Sarkar

AyoCaesar

The deaths we're seeing now are, most likely, the result of infections contracted about three weeks ago.Three weeks ago the schools were open. Cheltenham Festival was allowed to go ahead.

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

One thing I don't think enough people understand is that by the time the public was aware of the COVID epidemic on any real scale, ***it had already peaked***. Here's

Rich

RockboltG

A quick thread looking at Germany's figures.A lot has been made of their ability to test, track and trace at the start of the outbreak - could that be why

Tony Yates

t0nyyates

As others like @jasonfurman have pointed out, it's also a policy that directly encourgages us to do something risky, without any evidence that our test/trace system can absorp the infections

All About Life 🏆

AAL________

HEALTH IS WEALTHI have shared some great secrets to keep your immune system strong in few sentences. Boosting your immune system is very important in the modern era full of

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

If people came in a group.. Well, chase them off the park, they will be that group in a small apartment, less ventilation and less sunlight to kill the virus.

Dr N. Brodie נחמה

brodiegal

#shortthoughts In current arguments I don't believe we always distinguish sufficiently between the effects of lockdown & the effects of the pandemic. It's also easier to 'blame' the lockdown because

Fergal Bowers

FergalBowers

The Czech government is considering relaxing lockdown measures that have stifled the economy if an apparent levelling off in the growth of coronavirus infections is confirmed in the coming days,

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

Ok. Here's a little insight into the life of an infectious disease epidemiologist trying to handle uncertainty and report responsibly. Warning - the coming thread will contain many "i'm not

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

Recent estimates (including our analysis led by @timwrussell: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.12.2000256) have suggested 0.5–1% of COVID-19 infections may potentially be fatal overall. Some have interpreted this

Tom Chivers

TomChivers

*damning* towards the end about the "number theatre" of the government's press conferences: "completely embarrassing; we're told lots of big … precise numbers, actually not trustworthy communication of statistics"This BEFO

Dr. Saskia Popescu

SaskiaPopescu

Hey @KrutikaKuppalli - let’s drop some truth on why people don’t need to wear surgical masks unless they’re sick…. First, these supplies are in short supply and the folks that

Rajeev Jayadevan

RajeevJayadevan

Evidence that B.1.617.2 (India) is a not a fatal variant. No deaths occurred from an outbreak of 15 cases in a UK care home. This group, being frail, has high

Justice For Breonna Taylor

yes_indee_d

Been seeing this circulate and can confirm what I learned at work on Monday. Hospitals can no longer report to CDC via NHSN -National Healthcare Safety Network.https://twitter.com/nick_kapur/status/1283261781008437248 NHSN is the