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Harry Haury
letsthinkdeeply
@DanCrenshawTX @gummibear737 There are a number of things you need to know about CIVID19 that are not talked about a lot that are causing a lot of confusion right now:1)
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Nisheeth Sharan
nisheethsharan
REALITYCHECKA doctor of repute with experience in Public Health & Adm shared the following insights on #Corona yesterday.1. 78% of #Covid19 infections are asymptomatic. Which means people get infected with
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Dr.Okaychukwu
OkayCorporation
Since we can't test everyone for the novel coronavirus to detect every single case of COVID-19, especially the asymptomatic ones, how about running the common medical tests (full blood count,
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Chris Hayes
chrislhayes
Bizarre but not surprising to watch genuinely unknown empirical questions (is chloroquine a safe and effective treatment for Covid19?) get turned into these zero sum culture war battles. There's a
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The Fifth Law of Thermodynamics
entropys_curve
Let’s assume for a moment that maskers are right, and that masks are effective at preventing asymptomatic transmission of coronavirus. Further, let’s assume that not only are masks effective, they’re
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Dr. Jacqueline Windh
jwindh
@michelle_eliot @bctoday The advice she just gave about recently arrived travellers not being contagious if they are not sick is incorrect: many asymptomatic cases are contagious. (Not to mention they
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Yardley Yeadon
MichaelYeadon3
This is great. The first time the notion of “asymptomatic transmission” was mentioned, I smelled a rat. It’s biologically implausible. Not saying it’s never happened once, but as an important
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Yvette, exiled Queen of the Seychelles.
TheSciBabe
#COVID19 will probably end up having approximately a 1% infection fatality rate. Which means millions of people dying in America alone.But fatality isn’t the only bad outcome from this, and
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Amy Cho, MD MBA
amychomd
Can we be real?How many times do you think someone will be willing (or able) to quarantine for 14 days after a COVID exposure, waiting to see if they are
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zeynep tufekci
zeynep
"Increasing evidence has shown that asymptomatic individuals can spread the virus efficiently, and the emergence of these silent spreaders of SARS-CoV-2 hascaused difficulties in the control of the epidemic."https://twitter.com/Er
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Vincent Rajkumar
VincentRK
My estimates after reading multiple reports:20% of COVID is symptomatic80% is asymptomatic but infectious Symptomatic COVIDHospitalization rate: 10%ICU rate: 3%Mortality rateSymptomatic COVID ~2%. 7-10% if system overwhelmed. COVID (including asympto
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
4 in 5 *ASYMPTOMATIC*! New evidence has emerged from large majority of #COVID19 infections do not result in symptoms. That around four in five infections caused no illness. Many experts
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lukwtwz
lukwtwz
U.S. Surgeon General on @meetthepress is just flat-out evading Chuck Todd’s questions about masks. E.G. Chuck Todd asked, hypothetically, “If there were enough medical grade respirators like N95 mask for
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Chris von Csefalvay
chrisvcsefalvay
This may be a truth wasted on @mattyglesias, but over here in science, we generally draw a line between 'knowing' and 'assuming'. Asymptomatic transmission of the #coronavirus causing #COVID19 is
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C. Michael Gibson MD
CMichaelGibson
ThreadAmazing at this point how little we know about #coronavirus:1. We have a range of R0 from 2.0 to 5.7; that is a massive range. 2. Do we know if
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pappantweets
pappantweets
I tweeted about my mom testing positive a few days back,To my utter surprise we are all tested positive even though we isolated her in a room.See here is the
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