#Infections

Derek James From

derekjamesfrom

As the cries in the AB media continue to grow for @jkenney to lockdown AB because of ever-growing Covid-19 case counts, so does my frustration. When will those of us

DJ Wilson

djwilson5

It turns out the 80/20 rule applies to #COVID too, not just health care financing, where as few as 5-10% of infected patients are transmitting to 80% of the total

Julie Pfeiffer

jkpfeiff

Reviewers (rightly) asked for more information about the origin/passaging history of the virus we’re using— Coxsackievirus B3 strain H3 (derived from CVB3 strain Nancy). Sounds boring, but the answer is

Steve Guest

SteveGuest

THREADFor all the reporters who were singularly focused on impeachment & don't know what @realDonaldTrump did to confront coronavirus in the month of February, here's a helpful list.After President Trump

Diego Bassani, PhD 🏠😷💉

DGBassani

Can the the absence of evidence of in-school transmission be taken as evidence of absence? This is the question that @KaitEJohnson9, @mikha_ehl, M. Stoddard, R. Pasco, Spencer Fox, L. Meyers

Forrest Maready

forrestmaready

1. A couple of dirty little secrets about how vaccines are typically made and tested.If you've never studied how vaccines work, these may surprise you.If you're waiting to leave your

Sam Wang

SamWangPhD

I'm thinking quantitatively about the risk to kids and grown-ups as schools reopen. Seems to me that the only place this can happen safely is the Northeast - and that

Ditchwalk

Ditchwalk

Ignore China -- look at Japan, and even South Korea: https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest Ignore China (yellow) -- look at Washington State: https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest Countries and regions of countries that we think of as

John Englart EAM 🌏💦

takvera

Prof Jonathan Grigg of Queen Mary University of London: “It is increasingly likely that #airpollution increases vulnerability to #Covid19 infection. Preventing the most polluting traffic from re-emerging on to our

Natural Nomad 🇰🇪🌲🌳

SiyadAhmed95

Impacts of Climate Change in Mandera CountyA thread https://naturalnomaddotblog.wordpress.com/2021/05/10/impacts-of-climate-change-in-mandera-county/ Climate variability and change pose serious threats to agricultural production and liv

Victoria

Victori93908916

1/n My 2 cents:According to @AdamJKucharski "the majority of secondary transmission may be caused by a very small fraction of individuals (80% of transmissions caused by ~10% of the total

Michele Zanini

MicheleZanini

The Italian region of Veneto has performed nearly *210k* tests out of a pop of 5m. It’s averaged 8k tests/day over the last week, and its daily positives are now

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

So, three wrongs don't make a right. And this entire strategy is just wrong in so many ways. 1/https://twitter.com/freddiesayers/status/1313072696629096449 First, let's knock down the straw man up front. No one

Gummi Bear

gummibear737

Asymptomatic Deep-DiveRead on, you’ll be surprisedThis NYT article revealed that high Ct PCR was identifying mostly non-infectious positives (trace viral RNA)The upside to supersensitive PCR is that it also tells

Jose-Luis Jimenez

jljcolorado

1/ The Skagit Choir outbreak was dominated by aerosol transmission52 out of 60 infected after 2.5 hr practiceOur Skagit Choir Paper has been accepted after peer review, available at:https://twitter.com/ShellyMBoulder/status/1306352867213631

Chris Masterjohn

ChrisMasterjohn

Here's my interview with Gabriela Gomes on herd immunity and COVID-19.https://youtu.be/egN8oXFBTWk Gabriela Gomes is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at University of Strathclyde Glasgow and corresponding author of the rece