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Barry Cooke, M.Sc, Ph.D
barryjcooke1
Asymptomatic spread in a single person was suspected as early as Jan 30, but that wasn't peer review published until Mar 5, and it was just one patient. This clarifies
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charlieclarkyxe
charlieclarkyxe
1. The escalating covid cases in Saskatoon are of great concern to me. I have been working with a range of groups to determine what targeted interventions will have the
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Independent SAGE
IndependentSage
NEW: The Independent SAGE has responded to yesterday’s news that the government is expected to announce relaxing of 2-metre rule. We have reviewed the scientific evidence & believe it is
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Iain Moppett
IainMoppett
New @hsib_org report on hospital transmission of COVID-19 just out. https://www.hsib.org.uk/documents/258/hsib-summary-report-covid-19-transmission-hospitals.pdf 1/n To my eyes it’s a sensible report - looking at the whole system and look
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Michael Mina
michaelmina_lab
Why do we need frequent testing over very sensitive testing? It’s easyThe average person is PCR+ for ~30+ days but infectious for ~7. Most people are asymptomatic. So, infrequent PCR
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David Fisman
DFisman
Ontario will apparently ram through the extension of Dr. Williams' appointment at CMOH in the legislature today, some time around lunchtime.Thanks to the AG's report, we now know that Dr.
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Dr. Lynora Saxinger 🇨🇦
AntibioticDoc
PSA: a COVID-19 case at schools is not the same as a school outbreaks. Important difference! If a student tests +, their contacts are traced and tested. If cases are
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Robin Monotti
robinmonotti
We've always had respiratory diseases but we never mandated stay at home lockdown orders or face masks. That's because there was never any evidence for either. There still isn't. Epidemiological
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zeynep tufekci
zeynep
Much of the confusion about masks is because people conflate preventing infection (PPE for hospitals) with stopping transmission (cloth masks for all). Share this explainer I wrote with @jeremyphoward &
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wsbgnl
wsbgnl
The United States pandemic *mess* is that well-protected impatient elites are obsessed with pushing activity to the exact edge of what they believe is safe and they prioritize minimizing their
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James Sumner
JamesBSumner
Status: staring blearily at science advocacy/#scicomm responses to the 5G/Covid-19 myth that rely on explanatory interventions that it's pretty clear from the anti-antivax and other cases *are not persuasive to
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Crystal Goomansingh
cgoomansingh
While many counties and cities around the world are seeing infections drop and deaths related to Covid-19 decrease, infections around the world arw not stopping. @DrTedros again said the pandemic
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Abdullah
AbdullahBiqai
An inauthentic hadith that always resurfaces despite our continuous efforts to demonstrate its weakness is:“The most hated of halal to Allah is divorce.”Abu Hatim & al-Daraqutni both declared its isnad
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Jeremy PLEASE WEAR MASKS! Konyndyk
JeremyKonyndyk
And significantly - no travel to China. Which means community spread had begun in CA by mid-January. That is significant. A few implications:https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1253149355256672256 Assuming ~3 weeks from exposure to death,
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Ryan Struyk
ryanstruyk
CNN: A new study from Harvard researchers published today in the journal Science finds that "prolonged or intermittent social distancing may be necessary into 2022." Harvard researchers: "Under current critical
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Jeremy Farrar
JeremyFarrar
Marseille's Covid-19 hospital beds 'close to saturation'. Community transmission will lead to increase in people needing hospital care. We need to learn lessons from France, reduce transmission, protect #HCW &
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