#Infections

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

What I don’t want:- A return to stay-at-home ordersWhat I do want:- Major investment in proactive solutions that allow us to return as close to normal as possible What do

Marielle, M.S.

IAmMarielleT

We also need to address the mental, emotional and physical damage that racism causes. Racism is traumatic which affects your mental and emotional health. Systemic racism shapes communities and what

Jamie Woodhouse

JamieWoodhouse

Thank you for holding the #Lockdown!So important, as ~1 in 14 UK people (4.7 million) may have #COVID19.Maybe 1 in 8 in London.That means there are infected people in

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

The numbers are in and they are not good. The best early serology results point to this being about 5 to 10 times more deadly than seasonal flu (note there's

Dr. Andrea Conroy 🌍🦟🔬

AndreaLConroy

Our paper looking at #malaria in Ugandan blood donors is out in Transfusion. We tested 1000 samples from two sites in Uganda and found 15.4% of asymptomatic blood donors had

Soutik Biswas

soutikBBC

THREAD: Delhi is seeing an intense Covid-19 winter surge, driving the total number of cases to more than 540,000 and fatalities to over 8,600. Doctors fear the capital may well

Tom Moultrie

tomtom_m

Another thing. Both @Presidency_ZA and the Minister of Health have suggested that ‘hotspots’ will remain so declared until they have fewer than 5 active cases per 100 000 population. What

Roger Galligan

RogerGalligan

More clarity on False Positives . My calcs w/ 99.25% Specificity (& assume 80% sensitivity & prevalance of 2.2% in tested cohort) -> Positive Predictive Value of 70.58% and Positive

Nicola Low #EveryDayCounts #StillFBPE

nicolamlow

Here’s a short thread on some rather worrying misinterpretations of the meaning and implications of “asymptomatic” #SARS-CoV-2 or #COVID19. This is provoked by a @bmj_latest news item by https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/369/bmj.m1375.full.pdf Let’s

Jessica Levi

jessicalevii

Dangers of holding urine too long?(A THREAD) As liquid waste build up in your body you get the urge to urinate. It’s not harmful to hold it for a few

Marco Rubio

marcorubio

5 part thread on context of Covid spike:1. Goal of lockdown wasn’t to stop virus,it was to “flatten the curve”& buy time to improve testing & treatment & to increase

I’m Aladar, the jerkasaurus

itatiVCS

That’s because there is no logic here: only a university desperate to keep from using its endowment to save lives and prevent infections.https://twitter.com/mattomasini/status/1319289069268971522 Like at some point universities need to

David Fisman

DFisman

This is figure is from a paper just submitted to CMAJ, but I think it's important for people to see this.The green curve is incidence of death in LTC by

Virpi Flyg

VirpiFlyg

Finland re-opened schools last week. Now they have found COVID-19 in 4 schools and set the pupils and staff in quarantine. Here in Sweden the schools and municipalities don't even

Ulfgard

ulfgardleo

Right now, people are talking a lot about the "sigmoid" which supposedly shows that we are almost done and there is nothing happening anymore. Most notably @SHomburg in Germany. So,

Chris Viox

chrisviox

Miami-Dade County antibody study. 15x more cases than confirmed, implied IFR slightly under .2%. 50% asymptomatic. I'm sure the critics will find something wrong with this study too. (1/2)https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article242260