#Infections

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P_Wee

Educating the panicked...According to data from the best-studied countries and regions, the lethality of Covid19 is on average about 0.2%, which is in the range of a severe influenza (flu)

Fitsumberhan G. Medhane, MD, MPH

FitsumberhanG

Africa Faces an 'Existential Threat' as Virus Cases Spread - NYTIt’s coming ‘late’ nonetheless with dire consequences if not acted timely. Africa: Test | Test | Test & more test

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

Covid Epi Weekly: Turning the Corner on Covid in the US ... Into an Oncoming Tsunami of Cases, Hospitalizations, and DeathYou know who’s NOT tired of winning? Covid, that's who.

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

Let’s talk about what happens if you get COVID19 and recover. Are you immune to the disease? How long does the immunity last? And what does that mean for your

Muge Cevik

mugecevik

A lot of discussion recently about transmission dynamics, most of which are extrapolated from viral loads & estimates. What does contact tracing/community testing data tell us about actual probability of

Steve Brown

stevebrown2856

(1/x) Back from a break from Twitter, COVID and the UK. I won't be tweeting as much going forward for various reasons, which I will explain later in the thread.

Peter Griffin

zigzackly

You’ve stayed the course.Since March, you’ve stayed home as much as you can, perhaps 100%, perhaps close. If you’ve ventured out, you’ve done so masked, maybe double-masked, maybe with a

Sarah Zhang

sarahzhang

In 2016, I was writing about the return of flesh-eating screwworms in Florida, when I learned about a U.S. government program that sounded totally bonkers1/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-eating-worms-disease-conta

David Berger

YouAreLobbyLud

Dear @GregHuntMP,I hope this article will help you appreciate the kind of change needed to prevent HCW infections and keep our hospitals safe for all. ICEG must go.Yours, David Berger@Stopinfection

John Lichfield

john_lichfield

Weekly French vaccination thread.It has been a good week – the best yet.France broke its record on each of the last 2 days – 545,000 shots on Thurs and 549,000

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

Constantly amazed and appalled by the narrative on the right that covid shutdowns are "because of" x number deaths."We shut down for 180,000 deaths and most of those people had

Mbuyiseni Ndlozi

MbuyiseniNdlozi

Dumela @RevMeshoe... are you awake? I have a bone to pick with you! Before you pray today, tell us: Why are you such a dishonest person Kenneth? Why did you

𝐎.𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝕾𝖔𝖜✪

GuineenHumble

THREAD : La #DREPANOCYTOSE A l'occasion de la Journée Mondiale de la maladie génétique la plus fréquente au monde (la drépanocytose), une pensée pour toutes ces personnes qui se battent

Jennifer Cabrera

jhaskinscabrera

.@GovRonDeSantis asked Dr. Bhattacharya about Fauci’s statements on masks, referring to a March interview in which Fauci said masks may make you feel protected, but people touch their faces and

Dr. Deena Hinshaw

CMOH_Alberta

Here is a summary of today’s #COVID19AB update. I provided today’s update from home. On Friday, I developed a sore throat and was tested over the weekend. I have a

The COVID Tracking Project

COVID19Tracking

Our daily update is published. We’ve now tracked 28.1 million tests, up 511k from yesterday. For details, see: http://covidtracking.com As testing increased across the nation, the positive rate fell everywhere,