#Asymptomatics

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

0/ My feedback to the resort I just came back from, politely but firmly asking them to push back on masks for their poor employees. 1/[Your resort] and other resorts

Gummi Bear

gummibear737

Deep Dive!This is an important thread about testing for SARS-CoV-2 which will explain:-why herd immunity is possible at 10-20%-why testing has really let us down and led to bad policy

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

I unironically think this is fine and we should do at least some version of it in America.https://twitter.com/berniespofforth/status/1320860041910591489 In principle, the best thing to do is quarantine all close contacts

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

The extent to which #COVID19 can cause sequelae is a critical question. A new study on Swiss military recruits found no effect on strength but a decrease in aerobic capacity

balajis.com

balajis

My worldview:1) Short sharp lockdown to get to zero new cases, using as much of Asia, NZ playbook as possible2) Then test, trace, isolate to maintain a green zone3) This

Gummi Bear

gummibear737

Asymptomatic Deep-DiveRead on, you’ll be surprisedThis NYT article revealed that high Ct PCR was identifying mostly non-infectious positives (trace viral RNA)The upside to supersensitive PCR is that it also tells

Eric Topol

EricTopol

What we've been missing, below the surface, about #COVID19. The focus has been on confirmed cases, hospitalizations and deaths. But there's so much more we've been learning. United States data

Dr Clare Craig

ClareCraigPath

If I were health secretary I would have a weekly report by NHS Trust on the percentage of ‘COVID’ ITU admissions that have ground glass changes on chest CT (which

Eric Topol

EricTopol

Today we learned ~1/3 Big Ten athletes who were #COVID19 + had abnormal heart MRIs, consistent w/ myocarditis, even those without symptoms. If anyone still is questioning whether this virus

Sabina Walker 😀 Master Appl Science (Neuroscience

SabinaWalker18

1/x Testing = CasesThis ALSO:(1) #False_Positive PCR results (compared to True Positives)especially if #asymptomatics tested&(2) #NON_infectious cases IF excess Ct cutoffLeads to #erroneous reporting of #NON_infectious

💉💉 Dr. Trey is Vaccinated

Comparativist

Random thoughts / speculation about the implications of the NY sero survey. I’m sure most of this will be proven wrong, but this is where my instincts are. Feel free

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

Deaths in Santa Clara county, CA are running at 20% above last year: which is TWICE the mortality gap you'd expect from officially confirmed COVID deaths. WE NEED FASTER ALL-CAUSE

Andrew Morris

ASPphysician

As @JPSoucy points out in this excellent , we have a experienced a considerable drop in testing. The question we don't know is: how many should we be testing? @skepticalIDdoc

Matteo Quartagno

stats_q

Results of massive (N=64000) nation-wide serosurvey in Italy are out. Available in Italian only, for the moment, so I'll translate a few highlights if you are interested.https://www.istat.it/it/archivio/246156 As little as

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) Two-thirds of Montreal boroughs reported no new #COVID cases on Tuesday, including former hot spots. Yet Quebec’s chief public health officer expressed concern people are taking things for granted.

Joshua Loftus (defundNYPD.com)

joftius

"COVID is bad because trump is unqualified" fails as an argument because1. Comparisons to Europe2. The supposedly qualified people are the products of meritocracy--a self-mythologizing system where grifters are as