#Infections

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

EPI 101 thread on sensitivity and specificity, plus its application to #COVID19 screening. For those who want a refresher!The way we summarize the accuracy of a test (such as RT-PCR

Owen Jones 🌹

OwenJones84

When Boris Johnson declares we have "defied so many predictions", he is talking nonsense. Britain is one of the worst hit countries on earth. Over 40,000 people have so far

Omar Wasow

owasow

Are there latitude, temperature or weather effects on Covid? Some early studies found associations. Now, a new possible explanation for cross-national variation: ”countries with TB vaccination programmes have far fewer

Prof. Christina Pagel

chrischirp

THREAD: I have a big problem with how this @BBCNews article has been presentedhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54000629 Firstly, the academic paper behind it (a review of best available evidence) is absolutely right to

Jowan Penn-Barwell

MilOrthoTrauma

1/13 For Mil Surgeons, Sir Alexander Fleming is rightly recognised for discovering ABx and the enormous contribution that this made to the care of those wounded on the battlefield in

♡ Holistic Honey ♡

modestmarina

Weird of you to assume that supporting holistic medicine automatically means you must reject all things allopathic medicine. Since you lack understanding for what holistic healing even is, allow me

Sumanth Raman

sumanthraman

What worries me about #Covid is the feeling we all have that come January the vaccine will become available and that will mean a return to normalcy. We only need

🇨🇦 Bill Comeau Crush the Curve 📉

Billius27

About targeted #Covid19 restrictions and "fairness".When we zero in on a small population like some regions, the odds of seeing a particular type of outbreak in a particular type of

Warren McGee

WarrenMcG

Rhinoviruses are a common cause of *the common cold*. A study looked at adults hospitalized w/ these viruses or the flu, & found that there was a 30-day mortality rate

M Matt Frank

dmmf7

Today, the city of New York released data for April 15, and the cumulative totals for the confirmed and probable Covid-19 fatalities = 11,477. Modeling indicates, that those fatalities represent

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

I feel it is important to call out misunderstandings about what 'herd immunity' means. It is clear from this little thread that @TheEliKlein has no idea. I'm not trying to

RebekahWh

RebekahWh

"Only 12% of virus deaths in Italy were directly due to covid-19. The remaining 88% had pre-existing conditions."This point is meaningless without knowing: How common are pre-existing conditions? Asthma's one.

Ottilia Anna MaSibanda

MaS1banda

"We are dealing with human lives" - President @CyrilRamaphosa addressing the nation on the coronavirus pandemic and government action. Nearly 7 weeks since the start of the lockdown.South Africans have

Dana Nessel

dananessel

My department has spent over a year attempting to enforce Covid orders from the governor and DHHS with enormous blowback from county prosecutors, sheriffs, and police chiefs all over the

Sabina Vohra-Miller

SabiVM

As a non-epidemiologist, this was perhaps the most enlightening article I’ve read on SARS-CoV-2 by @zeynep (h/t: @malia_ailam)I will summarize the article and highlight key points down :https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

Wear a Mask! Just published in Nature Medicine: Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks: "Our results indicate that surgical face masks could prevent transmission of