#Infections

Greg Ip

greg_ip

1/ Lockdowns were a blunt & indiscriminate tool that slowed infections, but with no clear strategy for what came afterwards. We know enough now about how to bring down infections

Cde Never Maswerasei 🇳🇦 🇿🇼

CdeNMaswerasei

Dear President @edmnangagwa: You are being ridicled by citizens who are not focusing on the global outlook of COVID-19 & the potential effects of an early exit from lockdown. To

Ellen Carmichael

ellencarmichael

University of Miami (FL) has concluded its preliminary COVID-19 study, which found ~165,000 Miami-Dade residents (or 6%) had antibodies, nearly 16x the number of cases reported by the state health

JayEnAar

GorwayGlobal

My latest #Coronavirus Global Situation report is available on dropbox as a pdf file. There's a special section on India. with charts of the new metric - #RQ, or the

Khaya Dlanga

khayadlanga

If you look at fatalities in countries with similar rates of infections on the continent and across the world, SA has very low fatalities. The ratio of fatalities compared to

Joel Miller

joel_c_miller

A on whether we can protect high risk individuals by increasing infections in low risk individuals. Can it work?We need to be aware of what assumptions have to be true

Milhouse Van Houten 😀

Milhouse_Van_Ho

When did you become skeptical of all this?Please state reasons below if you can. For me: spring / late March.Infections allegedly doubling every 3 days and had started in late

Jeremy Hunt

Jeremy_Hunt

Hospital acquired COVID-19 remains a major problem as it STILL accounts for 15% of COVID hospital patients: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/973495/S1147_CO-CIN_dynamic_report.p

Thiemo Fetzer

fetzert

Today I m sharing another paper on unintended consequences of a UK policy which makes me cringe at how my tax money is spent all the while debating #FreeSchoolMeals "Subsidizing

Manindra Agrawal

agrawalmanindra

@stellensatz @Ashutos61 @Sandeep_1966 @shekhar_mande Starting a new thread for India. I updated India curve last on 14th with suggested peak at ~190K. Past few days have breached this value massively.

Dr. Colby

DoctorColby

I hadn’t intended for this to tease dropping a bombshell or anything, but after talking with an ICU nurse yesterday, she basically reiterated now serious this illness is. It’s very

Ragnorakishere

ragnorakishere

It has been a while since I added to this pinned thread. I am doing so today because of what I was told by a patient. The patient had been

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

1/3 The US played a central role creating WHO in 1948 and supporting it since. Without WHO, the world would not have eradicated smallpox, MDRTB would have spread much more

Francis Hoar

Francis_Hoar

We need to get this message out.We have average levels of triage for respiratory infections, below average hospital admissions for and deaths from acute respiratory infections. The focus on statistics

Francis Hoar

Francis_Hoar

What is missing from this is any questioning about why social distancing is necessary to be ‘safe’ from a virus killing 30-50 times fewer ppl than other respiratory infections.With economic

Kyle Lamb

kylamb8

Have you seen the new best estimate infection fatality rates by the CDC? 20-49 is 0.02%. That's a 99.98% survival rate. Here is what I had three weeks ago... Under