#Ventilation

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Huge—CDC now finally says coronavirus can commonly spread "through respiratory droplets or small particles, such as in aerosols," when a person breathes. "Airborne viruses, including #COVID19, are among the most

Adrienne LaFrance

AdrienneLaF

Hear hear. @TheAtlantic's @zeynep is extremely good at getting the most complicated things right. Just a few examples... (1/6)https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/business/media/how-zeynep-tufekci-keeps-getting-the-big-things-right.html H

Shannon Des Roches Rosa

shannonrosa

Autism versus Face Masks and Maskholes: A thread about why you shouldn't jump to conclusions about people who don’t wear masks, and what people who can’t wear masks—like my autistic

Zain Chagla

zchagla

One dark trend of COVID is a lack of moderation. It's understandable, the world has never seen something like this. People are facing life altering social changes, and no end

Christopher Ingraham

_cingraham

Oh my God frog twitter please help me -- one of our darts (tinctorious) somehow escaped his heavily fortified tank and when I scooped him up he had *several wriggling

Tomas Pueyo

tomaspueyo

What's going on in Europe? Is there a 2nd wave? What can we expect in the coming weeks? Thread.Europe had a terrible 1st wave, beat it at the beginning of

Mark D. Levine

MarkLevineNYC

If you live in a large house and have COVID-19, you can isolate from your family by, say, moving into the basement.But what about the rest of us? How can

Jose-Luis Jimenez

jljcolorado

1/ TEN SCIENTIFIC REASONS IN SUPPORT OF AIRBORNE TRANSMISSION OF SARS-CoV-2Peer-reviewed publication in @TheLancet An honor to have collaborated in multidisciplinary team across medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, aerosol science,

Mark D. Levine

MarkLevineNYC

The "just say no" approach is not sustainable.In the real world we need to give people the tools to understand--and minimize--the risks of in-person interactions.The CDC has failed to offer

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Did you know that *study after study* finds most people don't seem to transmit COVID at all? That a small percent is responsible for almost all infections? That R is

Peter Tennant

PWGTennant

1/ THREAD ON FACE-TO-FACE TEACHING The debate around face-to-face teaching in UK #HigherEd escalated yesterday when @ucu warned it 'could spark a #Covid avalanche' and UK universities could be the

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”:

Rapid Tests

RapidTests

1/ An important thread on: Why the 1 million Abbott BinaxNOW tests per day are not enough Why we need 20 million tests per day Why several companies could produce

Southwest Airlines

SouthwestAir

After November 30, we will unblock the middle seat on our flights. This decision was not made lightly, and we'd like to share how we arrived at it. (1/8) A

Shane Morris

IamShaneMorris

Here's something the media has done a poor job of communicating to the public. (And consequently, in their void, Trump's administration has been able to fill a hole with nonsense.)"Why

Diego Bassani, PhD 🏠😷💉

DGBassani

Covid is airborne, but the continuing insistence in pushing fomites as the major source of infections makes ‘the idea of fomites as the main infection route’ a large contributor to