#Asymptomatic

Kate of Kate Hall ☕

erstkate

Look, I'm going to say it again. Testing rate *per capita* is almost irrelevant because the spread rate is determined by the number of person to person contacts within a

Richard H. Ebright

R_H_Ebright

"Rutgers joins a long list of schools that have reported positive COVID-19 cases among..players since allowing players to return to campus earlier this month"2 Rutgers football players test positive for

Danyaal Raza

DanyaalRaza

Many of you may have seen this story yesterday, about a new GTA-based 'service' offering at-home COVID swabs for $400 (not a typo). Many, many questions need to be asked

Professor Philip Nolan

President_MU

We face difficult decisions if we are to suppress again the spread of SARS-CoV-2, and different voices should be heard. However, such contributions should be grounded in the facts, and

Seth Trueger

MDaware

one of the challenges communicating about COVID & public health is the risk is a *social* risk much more than an *individual* (risk for most people) for example, I see

Dr. Deena Hinshaw

CMOH_Alberta

Here is a summary of today’s #COVID19AB update: Minister Shandro, myself & others met w/RMWB leaders today to discuss state of local emerg & ways to help support reducing transmission.

Rukmini S

Rukmini

Thread on testing and COVID-19 in India:India started with very low levels of testing, drives by a narrow testing strategy that began with a focus on symptomatic incoming travellers and

tedfrank 💉

tedfrank

The 95% confidence levels of the UW model are so wide as to be worthless for planning, even if one buys its Procrustean guesses for assumptions about the effectiveness of

Aaron Richterman, MD

AaronRichterman

COVID-19 literature updates 4/8-4/22, presented by @EricMeyerowitz and me.Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wokebW9OtqcSlides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wjgHtFyAbrICTsoKobnOoj3IWAkYzWX0F7Br2TqDPuM/edit#slide=id.g735df737db_0_0S

Andrew Morris

ASPphysician

My biggest concern in Toronto at present: the public doesn't understand the acuity of the situation, and are therefore understandably upset at current developments. So I will try and outline

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

THREAD1/ Of all the articles I read this week on #COVID19, this @nytimes really caught my eye. It was an interview w/ Dr. Bruce Aylward, the lead on the

Alasdair Munro

apsmunro

There has never been more confusion about the role of children in transmission of #SARSCoV2 , and tensions are running high over implications for #schoolsreopeningTime for some clarity@Damian_Roland and I

Dr Philip Lee

drphiliplee1

Alright, I'm seeing this paper quoted a lot about the harms potentially caused by masks, so here we go, yes wearing a cloth mask as protection when you're working in

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

To stop major outbreaks - we either need major behavioral change - seems unlikely - need to shutdown the economy again, vaccines (all of which problematic), or we need the

Ranu Dhillon

RanuDhillon

1/It’s easy & obvious to say we need more testing to stop this epidemic. (I have been guilty of this too.)When we say ‘test, test, test’ or ‘mass testing’, we

Rabbi Sara Zober BLM

RebbeSMZ

I know exactly why the coronavirus is spreading in Nevada. We got notified yesterday (Sunday) that we were exposed and need to be tested. You can't get tested asymptomatically on