#Transmission

Ajit Singh

ajitxsingh

This tweet has gotten a lot of attention and been used by right-wing conspiracy theorists to suggest that China and the WHO were misleading or lying to the world about

Carlos del Rio

CarlosdelRio7

Today marks 5 months from the date China notified @WHO of an outbreaks of atypical pneumonia in Wuhan. Since then 6.2 M cases and > 300K deaths have been notified

Andrew Morris

ASPphysician

I have spent the past day weighing whether to like article because it is a fantastically executed example of #scicomm or dislike it because it is propaganda that distorts the

Jack Noonan

NoonanJack

THREAD. Today I attended a great webinar from @WHWB15 on COVID-19, aerosols &’schools feat two of the most respected scientists in this area - @j_g_allen from @HarvardChanSPH & Au’s own

Tony Lin

tony_zy

Obsessed with Taiwan’s “down-to-earth” Halloween party, where you ONLY dress up as normal people in everyday situations. This is “the woman looking for a seat at food court”: “the Starbucks

Raj Mehta, MD

raj_mehta

1/ Thread on evaluating benefits vs harms of masks for infectious diseases & #covid19. orWhy i think the claim that masks have equal probability of causing harm & benefit is

iCART

icart_india

1/n. How has transmission varied after the (world's largest) lockdown in India? When should we exit the lockdown and how do we do it safely? Read on as we explore

Alison Lynn Hill

alison_l_hill

New preprint out with @AnjalikaNande +@michaelzlevy + B. Adlam + J. Sheen: We dig into understanding how both the clinical course and transmission network structure of COVID-19 influence the epidemic

Dr. Janis Geary

janisgeary

I've seen a lot of frustration over fines for families using open park space. At face value, it certainly feels like an overreach, but allow me to get a little

Jeff Sessions

jeffsessions

The US has consistently been the single largest contributor to the @WHO. Over the past 2 years, the US has given nearly $900 MILLION to the WHO– over 20% of

Dylan Morris

dylanhmorris

This pandemic should upend how biologists think about virus transmission—for the better. My greatest regret is having parroted received wisdom early on. I said our @NEJM aerosol stability findings were

Little Hoppy Saul

HoppySaul

Let’s explain this again simply, as the anti-mask covid-deniers who like to call me names need things explained again....Virus transmits via droplets and aerosols. Droplet transmission mitigated by social distancing

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

New analysis of sequence data suggests the current US COVID-19 outbreak sparked in mid-Feb. As well as providing insights how the epidemic started, I think this has some important implications

Adam Hamdy

adamhamdy

1. “It is, alas, a fact of the disease that it is readily transmissible between children and adults"Boris JohnsonThis fact was not accepted as part of the evidence base used

Marcel Salathé

marcelsalathe

The blog post by the tech lead of the TraceTogether app starts out very reasonable, but ends up with a vague non-sequitur ("additional API refinements will be needed").https://blog.gds-gov.tech/automated-contact-tracing-is-not-a-coronavirus

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

AIRBORNE—at long last—the CDC just finally acknowledges that people can be infected with #COVID19 through aerosol airborne transmission, especially indoors with inadequate ventilation. this is HUGE and been long delayed.