#Transmission

Christophe Fraser

ChristoPhraser

Discussions emphasising 'COVID19 is more serious than flu' will probably become moot in the coming days and weeks, and for many people already have, but in case you are engaged

Dale Wen

dale_wen

Case study from China: aerosol transmission can happen well over 2 meters. Like many other studies that have confirmed the virus is airborne, the case shows the inadequacy of the

Kai Cheng, Priestess of the Old Religion

razorfemme

Friends, we should all be as careful as humanly possible - but COVID19 infection is not necessarily the result of irresponsible behavior. We must not reinforce a culture where people

Linsey Marr

linseymarr

Nearly tears of joy seeing new paper in medical journal with correct analysis and interpretation of aerosol transmission: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30323-4/fulltext See thread for summary of main poi

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

Tony Fauci says the US death toll is ‘going to be very disturbing’, even when you consider the 120k+ lives lost already. He’s right. I would optimistically estimate that the

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

There have been claims that #COVID19 has acquired mutations leading to more transmissible strains. We formally tested whether this was the case using 15,000 #SARSCoV2 genomes from all over the

An Leavy

an_leavy

Thanks to David for sending me this link to the summary prepared by the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) on the investigations done regarding NSW school cases

Tom Inglesby

T_Inglesby

Its terrible to see the President, First lady and other(s) in the White House staff sickened with COVID and I hope they recover quickly. It is important to consider and

Abdu Sharkawy

SharkawyMD

Lots of angst, frustration & pessimism being expressed by those in the business community and others re: the perceived (lack) of fairness of restrictive measures that are imposed by policy

Jeremy PLEASE WEAR MASKS! Konyndyk

JeremyKonyndyk

Instead of working like hell to establish conditions for safe resumption of in-person schooling, the White House put all energy into denying any risk existed.Resulting national failure to prioritize reopening

Mike Lewis

mfjlewis

There are several issues at stake for the Church during this crisis. Critics of the public health measures seem to be ignorant of the risks, or doubtful about what we've

RealMarkNewton

NewtonMark

The patchwork of inconsistent COVID restrictions across Australia serves a purpose, albeit an accidental one.Different conditions with boundaries between them tell us how effective infection controls are because we can

Glenn Morrison

gcmorr

1/Since early in the pandemic it was apparent that superspreader events were more likely to occur during indoor gatherings. We also know that the pattern of infection is highly “dispersed”:

daniel falush

DanielFalush

Thread. The herd immunity mentality. I agree with Jeremy Farrar that UK might be on track for the largest COVID-19 death toll in Europe. I believe that this will also

COVID19 NSW

Covid19NSW

ThreadOne of the federal govt's ring-in deputy CMOs, Nick Coatsworth, published an opinion piece in the @smh yesterday. It starts with a shockingly bad misrepresentation of events & propositions about

EZMSA (fundvirtualcare.ca)

EZMSA2

Apr 29/21Letter to Premier Pediatricians concerned about #COVID19AB for children:- Potential increase MIS-C (multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children), causing inflammation of heart, lung, blood vessels, brain, and kidneys.Letter:http: