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Tracy O'Connell Novick
TracyNovick
ok, couple of things: first, I do want to share these, as it’s among the first attempts to comprehensively look at what has happened so far:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/schools-arent-superspreaders/616669/ This is the
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Paul Starr
StarrProspect
Why did #CDC this weekend drop cautions about choirs and "congregant singing, chanting and reciting" from its guidelines for communities of faith? On Friday May 22, the guidelines read:“consider suspending
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Francisco Marty, MD
FranciscoMarty_
With talk about asymptomatic transmission & #superspreaders with #COVID19, dug into a first & most fascinating story in public health when George Soper identified Mary Mallon as the healthy carrier
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Kimberly Prather, Ph.D.
kprather88
As I follow the mounting evidence, I wanted to share my current thinking on why/how SARS-CoV-2 is spreading. It is critical that we understand why/how so we can stop the
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Ben Cowling
bencowling88
Our work on superspreading has just been published https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-1092-0, the preprint was posted a few months ago.https://twitter.com/bencowling88/status/1270549539154309121 Work done with @DillonCAdam @gmleungh
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Michael Mina
michaelmina_lab
To stop major outbreaks - we either need major behavioral change - seems unlikely - need to shutdown the economy again, vaccines (all of which problematic), or we need the
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Jeremy PLEASE WEAR MASKS! Konyndyk
JeremyKonyndyk
I would very much like this to be true! But I'm not entirely persuaded that the data referenced in this article is robust enough to support the headline.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/schools-arent-superspreaders/6166
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Matthew Noah Smith
MattNoahSmith
Excellent article by @zeynep on dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 spread. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k-overlooked-variable-driving-pandemic/616548/It argues that pandemic is driven by superspreaders, and so what is required are
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Bloomberg Opinion
bopinion
Let’s talk about herd immunity. Are some cities and regions acquiring it sooner than expected and thus have higher than expected protection against Covid-19?https://trib.al/ACe2r0n The evidence for herd immunity can
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Andrew Lee
andrewleedr
For public health & infectious disease specialists, the tale of "Typhoid Mary" is legendary. Mary, a cook in New York, had typhoid and over several decades managed to infect at
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Dr Zoë Hyde
DrZoeHyde
(1/7) Report by Ministry of Health, Israel, showing children more likely to be infected than adults, are mostly asymptomatic, can be superspreaders, that school clusters spread into the community, and
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Corey A. DeAngelis
DeAngelisCorey
The Washington Post said "the disproportionate number of teachers appearing in covid-19 obituaries is striking."The author has not provided any evidence of disproportionate representation.This unsubstantiated statement should be c
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Amir Attaran
profamirattaran
Was invited by @GlobalEdmonton for an interview on COVID-19, but disinvited after proposing to discuss how oil sands work camps can spread infection. Apparently that’s news which must be censored
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Amit Bhor
daamitt
US planned, prepared and executed a plan and now has 4x the vaccine requirement for it's entire population. In any definition, I think we can call that a Master Stroke.
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Alicia Smith
Alicia_Smith19
Important article on testing from the NYT: According to public health experts, "standard tests are diagnosing huge numbers of people who may be carrying relatively insignificant amounts of the virus.
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Marc Owen Jones
marcowenjones
[Thread] 1 Here are some of the biggest verified tweeters on the "Hillary Emails" trend yesterday, where some entity thought they'd create a buzz around five year old legitimate data
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