#Transmission

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

A brief summary of the very precarious situation we are in now, and why we have a very narrow window to act in the UK. If we don't act now,

Jeremy PLEASE WEAR MASKS! Konyndyk

JeremyKonyndyk

Like everyone, I am desperate to send my kids back to school. Remote learning is hard on my wife and me, and terrible for our kids. If we thought it

Anne Kavanagh

Kavanagh_AM

1/8 We have seen transmission of #COVID19 between multiple families in Victoria. #Disability support work, congregate living, working & leisure environments create this on a grander scale. Plausible scenario in

Leana Wen, M.D.

DrLeanaWen

Some have argued that because schools don't contribute significantly to community spread, they should stay open. I disagree. There is explosive #covid19 spread. Most schools should be closed through the winter.My @washingtonpost op

🇨🇦 Bill Comeau Crush the Curve 📉

Billius27

Thoughtful on schools from a public health insider. Why high community transmission is key:"As cases increase, contact tracing is going to go the way of the dodo again. This includes

Cornelia Betsch 🖖

CorneliaBetsch

Pandemic #fatigue - a syndrome that we can show in data from Germany and other countries: less perceived risk, less information search, less recommended behaviours over time - despite rising

A.M.

bhalomanush

This is a very confused thread arguing testing isn't perfect and therefore it should only be done where probability is high. But it's fundamentally flawed because you don't know where

~ alpha

imshxdow

“The objective of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is to transfer mail reliably and efficiently.” “When an SMTP client has a message to transmit, it establishes a two-way transmission

Professor Philip Nolan

President_MU

We need to limit the number of close contacts we have each day and each week. SARS-CoV-2 transmits through prolonged close contact. What do we mean by close? The virus

Jorge Luis Salinas

jlsalinas7

Interesting report @apoorva_nyc. Many aspects are. SARS-coV2 can have airborne transmission in certain circumstances. Both the U.S. CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/office-buildings.html) and the European CDC (https:

Barbara Larochelle

BarbLarochelle

I don’t want to seem paranoid, but I really feel that despite their truly superhuman efforts to follow all possible protocols, schools are driving this covid spread to a far

Dr Duncan Robertson

Dr_D_Robertson

Glasgow University @UofGlasgow has reported 124 students testing positive for Covid https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-54268780 . This was entirely predictable. And predicted. I wrote this two weeks ago: https://twitter.com/Dr_D_Roberts

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

New study of COVID in children finds children can spread virus as easily as adults. Therefore, kids are equal vectors for transmission. (Good interview by @ashishkjha). #covid19 2) Jury is

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD

PeterHotez

1/3 Many thanks ⁦@jaketapper⁩ for hosting me ⁦@TheLeadCNN⁩ re: revised CDC guidelines. I indicated that I don’t have a specific problem with them, but they are not properly contextualized and

Conor Ruzycki

caruzycki

I don't know how to write this without stepping on toes, so apologies in advance. Last week seemed to be a big moment of clarification in the medical community regarding

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

I'm seeing more and more suggestions that contact tracing and/or physical distancing isn't needed and we could solve COVID-19 with widespread testing alone. E.g. just test everyone once a week/fortnight