#Transmission

River King

River_King1

#universaltesting @spencemo_c I use to work at IBM and recall a research program back in the day called Project Checkmate. It centered around flu spreading models and a program called

Whitney R. Robinson

WhitneyEpi

We have to start planning for child health and school reopenings. To do this, we have to understand #COVID transmission dynamics among kids. @apsmunro is doing the best data synthesis

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

In-flight transmission despite required masks, gloves and pre-flight testing. @nntaleb A traveler tested negative for covid-19 before a flight. He had the virus and infected 4 passengers.https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2020/11/20/new-

Jose-Luis Jimenez

jljcolorado

1/ The Skagit Choir outbreak was dominated by aerosol transmission52 out of 60 infected after 2.5 hr practiceOur Skagit Choir Paper has been accepted after peer review, available at:https://twitter.com/ShellyMBoulder/status/1306352867213631

Midnight Muse

midnightmuse3

1) I'm Really getting frustrated with the disconnection that is occurring between #coronavirus research being conducted in different countries. Yes, it's important to repeat studies, but don't say it's something

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

THREAD1/ I asked people to be outraged that our epidemic disaster continues. Complacency now will kill us later.Someone replied that they were outraged, but now what?Outrage isn’t enough if it

Dr. Cecília Tomori

DrTomori

Many of us have been very concerned about @CDC guidance for mothers and infants in the hospital setting. Brand new update (while still not WHO) provides a much more nuanced

Daniel Reeders

engagedpractx

This piece suggests infection can be caused by a person with Covid-19 merely breathing within a 2 metre radius.As evidence it cites a letter that lists an assortment of studies

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

This is a thread about how to interpret the seemingly sudden appearance of #COVID19 across the much of the US in the past week with some back-of-the-envelop calculations for number

St. Rev ☯️🏴😻

St_Rev

This seems important, and there's a related point that I've only seen mentioned once, in a comment thread on an econ blog.Discussion of R0 tends to treat it as a

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

This is an attractive visualization about COVID transmission risks. But I'm puzzled about something. With risks this high, how could we have R0 around 2.5 or 3?https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-28/a-room-a-bar-and-a-class-how-t

Perran Ross

MosWhisperer

New paper on the stability of Wolbachia in mosquitoes is out today on bioRxiv. Thread.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/853473v1 Remember the wMelPop or ‘popcorn’ strain of Wolbachia? It was introduced into mosquitoes to shorten

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

"New evidence has emerged from China indicating that the large majority of coronavirus infections do not result in symptoms." (cue internal screaming) The BMJ should know that asymptomatic and presymptomatic

Brian EdwardsTiekert

bedwardstiek

You're going to see a lot of tsk tsking people at beaches this weekend because anyone can take a photo that makes them look packed.The people who run the places

Mugove Madziyire

gynaemadzi

I am of the opinion that COVID-19 will run its natural course regardless of restrictions which we will put. The disease is highly contagious and spreads stealthily. Our efforts should

Abdu Sharkawy

SharkawyMD

FACT: More people living in LTC in Ontario have died of #Covid19 in the last week alone (27) than in the last 2 mths. Is this an indication that the