#Infections

Cathy Cichon, MD, MPH

DocScribbles

THREAD PART II of II: To mask or not to mask?Now to explore modern day implications regarding airborne spread...1/15 First let’s officially define contact vs airborne.Contact spread includes large droplets

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

Singapore should be a warning to us. They had COVID under excellent control. Now it’s out of control: 728 new cases yesterday. When we relax social distancing measures prematurely we

Korerima

sakenachewata

Thread: #TB Vaccine and #COVID-19 For many of us who were born in low-and-middle income countries, the #Tuberculosis vaccine was most likely part of your vaccine schedule. TB Vaccine, also

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carpentergirl76

Why I Would Rather Work for Poor People Than The Arrogant Rich. A Short Thread. In Sept of 2017, I was working for a man whom I had done many

Dr Anna Strowe

anna_translata

Right. Dame Nancy, @OfficialUoM, are you paying attention? A thread. 1/nhttps://twitter.com/JamesBSumner/status/1313519359239901190 The full quote that you excerpted from was "In many cases, there are essentially no benefits of in-pers

Rod Cook

IsCoolScience

1/22KOCH'S POSTULATES THREAD. Sorry, long thread. SARS-CoV-2 and Koch’s postulates. Has testing and recovery fulfilled Koch’s postulates?1.The pathogen must be present in every case of the disease. 2/222.The pathogen must

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) On Saturday, Quebec’s chief public health officer confirmed what was probably obvious to all by now in this province. There is now community transmission of the #coronavirus not just

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

I keep hearing that the UK should open up now... because Israel! There's seems to be a misunderstanding about what actually happened in Israel. Israel has had fairly strict mitigations

Health Nerd

GidMK

Recently, John Ioannidis, of "Most Published Research Findings Are False" fame, published a commentary piece on COVID-19 and global actionI thought it would be good to do a bit of

Rory O' Hanlon

ohanloncmr

Facts or fiction. Some thoughts as we enter the winter months @DonnellyStephen @HSELive @roinnslainte @paulreiddublin @SusanMitchell_ @ciarakellydoc 1/ Why do we look for a winter plan every year . We

Dr Eliza Wolfson

eliza_coli

Here it is!#Inktober2020 day 1 in my #PathogenPortraits series. After years of studying this in cow bums, it had to be #EcoliO157It causes bloody diarrhoea & if that wasn't bad

Leah Pogoriler

lpogoriler

I want to describe something very disturbing that I’ve seen lately in issuances from the federal government: the repeated, false descriptions of straightforward agency action in response to COVID-19 as

Joshua Batson

thebasepoint

I want to talk about a toy model for reasoning about what viral genomics can and cannot tell us about #SARSCoV2 transmission.Suppose viral isolates from two people have *identical* genotypes.

Jason Mix🆘

realJasonMix

Do you still wonder why the fact that Black Lives Matter needs to be stated?This is why.#BLM #CriminalJusticeReform https://twitter.com/KristenClarkeJD/status/1281959992866766849 Do you still wonder why the fact that Black Lives Matter

Eric Gerlach

egerlach

#covidontario is about to explode, and there's nothing we can do about it. @fordnation, @celliottability, and @Sflecce already signed the death warrants.A thread.1/17https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid-19-coronavirus-ontario-nu

Joel Miller

joel_c_miller

A new paper is out exploring the impact of heterogeneity on the herd immunity threshold.It explores two types of heterogeneity- variation in susceptibility - and variation in contact rate.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.2