#Tracing

COVID19

V2019N

thread - contact tracingA case is someone who tests positive. A contact is someone within 6' of a case for more than 15 minutes from two days before and during

Jonathan Ashworth 😷💙

JonAshworth

1. A commitment to 100,000 tests a day by the end of the month is welcome but of course it’s not the 250,000 Boris Johnson promised.We look forward to seeing

Jack Horgan-Jones

JackHoJo

Interesting angle to the contact tracing story. Brief thread:During the first wave, many civil servants volunteered and were trained as contact tracers. Some were never deployed. In July, many were

Sebastián Martínez Valdivia

sebastiansings

The reason there are this many college towns is because this is a per capita ranking. You add tens of thousands of young people into mid-sized or small towns, and

Diego Bassani, PhD 🏠😷💉

DGBassani

Can the the absence of evidence of in-school transmission be taken as evidence of absence? This is the question that @KaitEJohnson9, @mikha_ehl, M. Stoddard, R. Pasco, Spencer Fox, L. Meyers

Sander Wagner

sanderwagner

Starting a thread summarizing Coronavirus research.Disclaimer: I am not an epidemeologist and studies are being produced very quickly and on often sketchy and problematic data. I will try my best

Daniel Reeders

engagedpractx

Lot of people disappointed that Melb isn't relaxing restrictions despite low numbers today. But it was never about the total or the R, pace John Quiggin's musings. It's about the

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. I've written elsewhere about three different roles for COVID testing: https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1274576193333850112But whether you are testing for individual health, surveillance, or mitigation, speed is of the essence.

Ky

pdmlgn

I'm rlly quiet abt all these issues but I cant stay silent. There is a global pandemic & local cases get higher every single day yet this is what you

Janine McCready

janinemccready

Happy we are opening up testing and looking forward to hearing more details about the plan to guide testing and maximize benefit. Testing needs to be coupled with key communication

Eric Topol

EricTopol

Almost the whole country is in the "Uncontrolled Spread" category https://www.covidexitstrategy.org 1/ The Upper Midwest and Sturgis, likely America's largest superspreader event870 infections per million people in ND is

Farzad Mostashari

Farzad_MD

1/ How can we safely reopen our cities?You'll see many plans that rely on invigorated contact tracing to "reclaim containment" Some argue for use of apps to track our close

Doug Ducey

dougducey

We can contain the spread of #COVID19, but we've got work to do, Arizona. One thing is for sure: you are safer at home. Avoiding unnecessary trips out is one

Martin Kulldorff

MartinKulldorff

Twelve Forgotten Principles of Public Health#1 Public health is about all health outcomes, not just a single disease like #COVID19. It is important to also consider harms from public health

Michele Zanini

MicheleZanini

The Italian region of Veneto has performed nearly *210k* tests out of a pop of 5m. It’s averaged 8k tests/day over the last week, and its daily positives are now

Mikey Kay

MikeyKayNYC

#COVID19| THREADImportant scientific update from the @TheLancet — one of the world’s oldest medical journals used by many epidemiologists I have spoken to for navigating COVID.*Ignore the political BS, read