#Asymptomatic

Cleavon MD

Cleavon_MD

7/24/2020 #COVID Update. I've worked two weeks here in Yuma, Arizona so I can discuss what I'm seeing. The first shift had a few hypoxic super sick COVID patients, but

Venk Murthy

venkmurthy

So, Norway has decided not to engage in screening of asymptomatic people for COVID19.They posted this figure to justify it.Let's work through the math!https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fhi.

Nathan Lo

NathanLo3579

1/N Our new article published in Clinical Infectious Diseases (@IDSAInfo) on role of routine asymptomatic testing for #COVID19 in healthcare settings. We find twice weekly testing of all healthcare workers/patients

citybythelake

citybythelake

Copied from a friend:From my physician Brother In Law.Repost from another group. Interesting read."I am an ER MD in New Orleans. Class of 98. Every one of my colleagues have

Oluwatimilehin🗯️

TeeMee_I

May 1: I was YellowMay 12: I am Green12 days in Isolation Centre.An amazing experience I must say. Well done Lagos State & Federal Government.Asymptomatic all through, Tested Negative twice

c0nc0rdance

c0nc0rdance

Let's talk about *window period* and how it makes everything in diagnostics complicated and difficult.Window period is the time between infection and when a diagnostic test becomes useful. This is

FLUSH - WASH

flush_wash

We're at @UNC_Water_Inst and listening to talk about #COVID19 testing in #wastewater. Interesting talk cautioning some optimism about just how much we can do with testing wastewater for COVID-19. #uncwaterandhealth

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/A quick thread about the medium-term future of our coronavirus response (i.e. between lockdown and treatment/vaccine).Some have suggested we use variolation (i.e. try to intentionally infect each person with a

Blank Slate

blankslate2017

Question: Did @realdonaldtrump consult or discuss the #coronavirus threat with Vladimir Putin during the critical months of Dec, Jan & early Feb when reports from intel and public health officials

Aunty Anti Antibiotics

SatanKiNani

I'm going to cover one by one, small points about Covid19 infection which you surely must have read already. But they're the things which matter the most and may save

Richard Warnica

richardwarnica

So about a week and a half ago I started calling people, really smart people, and asking them a pretty simple question: How ready is Ontario to reopen?https://nationalpost.com/news/lockdown-and-release-how-ontarios-imperfect-wall-against-co

Kelly Doran MD MHS

KellyMDoran

New study in @AnnalsofIM with detailed results of SARS-CoV-2 testing across 14 homeless shelters in the Seattle area. Brief https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-3799 Overall, I have to say that this is great

Understand Burundi

QCbdi

The @WHO , as well as more and more government are changing their tune about wearing masks to face #COVID19 . In short, if everyone wears a masks, the chances

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

A brief morning thread on the emerging results from antibody testing. There is a lot of interest in these as being able to nail down how many people might have

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

Do kids transmit #COVID19 less often than adults?New paper published from contact tracing in S Korea.(I'm 1-2d late to the party but other threads are mis-representing the paper/data or missing

Jean-Paul R. Soucy

JPSoucy

(1/11) Something tells me the slight deceleration of #COVID19 case growth in #Ontario has more to do with the province's growing backlog of tests than a true decline in the