#Infections

Sarah Ludford 🔶pro-European

SarahLudford

“Some care-home managers have warned that the vulnerable or elderly who fall ill may be all but abandoned by local NHS services, with reports of unlawful do-not-resuscitate orders being put

🗣 Rob Rosenberger

vmyths

The difference between China vs. #cybersecurity is that China actually RECORDED "zero virus infections" for a given day.We in cybersecurity don't care about "zero" anything. We interpret "zero" not as

blockchainVibes

BlockchainVibes

I love some vax companies & plays, HOWEVER I'm noticing a conversational shift from vaccines to therapeutics. Things to consider heading into fall:- Vaccines only have to be effective in

Margot Cleveland

ProfMJCleveland

THREAD: I don't have time to dig into this fully and beyond the obvious "hey, let's use government money to excuse my bad decision" reality of @NYGovCuomo nursing home COVID-19

Dr. Avis

SistahScholar

People are incorrectly making the assumption that Trump actually gives a damn if the premature reopening that he’s called for leads to another surge in infections & death, thereby necessitating

Agonisti

agonisti

1/x You'll be hearing a lot about the term "case fatality rate" in COVID-19 discussions. It's the reference indicator often used to compare how lethally bad COVID-19 is relative to

U.S. Surgeon General

Surgeon_General

A short #coronavirus thread:U.S. #COVID19 cases are rapidly rising, w/ 50% of all States in red or orange zone. Cases don’t tell the whole story, but we could also hit

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

Very interesting new preprint by Eran Bendavid and colleagues reports seroprevalence estimates from Santa Clara county. Great to have seroprevalence work start to emerge, but I'd be skeptical of the

Scribulatora

Scribulatora

I won't be wearing a mask. Here's why:1. I could not keep up the change-out/sterilization protocol and would be a danger to everyone, including myself.2. Social distancing is better.3. We

Murad Banaji

muradbanaji

Some #COVID19 rates: their meanings and implications (very roughly). Thread.- recovery rate- case fatality rate- infection fatality rate- mortality rate- test positivity rate- case detection rate Recovery rate: % of

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Dear Dr @drharshvardhan — you are unfit to be the Health Minister of India .Please RESIGN. #COVID19India #COVID19 https://twitter.com/ndtv/status/1387692105628209163 2) meanwhile, in another country like Jordan , their health minister

Raghib Ali MPH MSc MA(Camb) MA(Oxf) DLSHTM FRCP

drraghibali

I'm still seeing two widespread misunderstandings of this graph and the data. The first is that cases are now as high as they were during the first wave – leading

Isaac Bogoch

BogochIsaac

1/ Interesting study on masks and #COVID19. Four patients with #COVID19 infections wearing surgical masks, cotton masks and no mask coughed onto a petri dish 20 cm from their mouth.

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

Dear UK Journalists. I suspect some of you are going to be rightly asked to write up the striking jump in SARS-CoV-2 cases registered today by PHE, and quite rightly.

Simple Politics

easypoliticsUK

Rayner: Infections are rising. The testing system is collapsing. When you are PM you can't keep trying to blame other people for your own incompetence. We've the highest death toll

Dr Clare Craig

ClareCraigPath

Let's think a bit harder about why people might be dying in excess at the moment. Look what happened in spring to visits to A&E for heart attacks and angina.