#SARSCov2

Catharine Chambers

CatharineTC

My colleague @EpiHarris and I @UofT_dlsph have written a short commentary on #COVID19 looking at why a risk reduction approach to #SocialDistancing (now known as #PhysicalDistancing) won’t work. The full

Dr. Thomas Binder, MD

Thomas_Binder

The test is the disease, not the virus!During my entire life we have never tested for any cold virus except when specific therapy was needed.Then came the sorcerer's apprentice @c_drosten

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

There is a lot of Twitter chatter surrounding a rumor that circulation of #COVID19 in California in fall 2019 has resulted in herd immunity. This is empirically not the case.

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—China CDC confirms the isolation of active #SARSCoV2 coronavirus from outer packaging of imported frozen cod in city of Qingdao. First time proven that **contact w/ frozen packaging w/ active

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

ITALY SCHOOL REOPENING: Nationwide in Italy, 15-20 days after schools reopened, #COVID19 surged. The “rate of growth of daily #SARSCoV2 cases in all Italian regions provides some evidence in

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

If we're going to manage a #TestTraceIsolate solution to the #COVID19 epidemic, we need a massive scale up in testing. There are some really exciting initiatives here. 1/9 According to

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Exciting - SEROLOGY (ANTIBODY) STUDIES BEGINNING: @CDCgov has begun preliminary studies to try to determine how many Americans have already been infected w/ #SARSCoV2, the virus that causes #Covid19. Serology

Hannah | Hehua Huang

88549439

1/6 Two proposed interventions from Li Taisheng, the director of ID dept. of Peking Union Medical College Hospital; he works on the frontline for #SARSCoV2 and SARSCov11. "Give IV immunoglobulin

Prof Somashekhar Nimbalkar, MD, PGDPH, CPH, Neo

ProfSomashekhar

When we talk of Immunity we mean that our body has the resistance to fight or is impervious to a external threat. In the biological context it means we can

Jonathan Eisen

phylogenomics

So I just got through reading this article on origins of #COVID19 and have one aspect I want to discuss.The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box

Tracy Shields

tcshields

Thread: 1/At some point (if this pandemic ever ends), #medlibs will need to have a serious discussion and critical look at how MeSH and other metadata did and (mostly) did

Erin C. Sanders, MSN, WHNP-BC (She/Her)

ErinSandersNP

THREAD: Congrats @DrLeanaWen!!1/ #COVID19 is a disease of isolation in a time when mothers need community and support more than ever. We already had a maternal mortality crisis in the

Laurie Garrett

Laurie_Garrett

Every #COVID19 trend is moving in the right direction in #NYS & #NYC. Statewide the numbers of daily new cases, hospitalizations and deaths have all plummeted, and are heading towards

Anne Huang| 黃安安

drannehuang

Dear #Saskatchewan,Time is of the essence in containing #COVID19SK, esp. when our epidemic “curve” is no longer flat. The Effective Reproductive Number “R(t)” is now 2.2Pls add measures to control

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

I was going to spare Dr. Spencer the embarrassment of taking apart his piece in detail, but since he has asked:His errors, fallacies, and misleading statements are legion (and likely

Nadia (Z. Webster)

NadiaZedID

While everyone is focussing their attention on the evolution of #COVIDー19 in Europe and USA, my concern right now is becoming South America based on several studies and I'll summarize