#Infection

Dr Marie Casey

marietcasey

My experiences of nursing home outbreaks-why do they get so bad?Firstly increases in community transmission lead to staff or visitors getting infected. Who then bring it to work. Covid-19 is

Andrzej Kozlowski

akoz33

A fascinating blog post by Andrei Illarionov, considers carefully the infection and death rates due to coronavirus in different parts of Italy. He points out the big differences between different

Kristian G. Andersen

K_G_Andersen

'Reinfected' patient:1. One positive RT-PCR for episode 1.2. IgG (-) 10 days after ep 1 and just after ep 2.3. IgG (+) 5 days after ep 2.I don't doubt reinfections

Clive Peedell

cpeedell

THREAD: The Government’s failure to protect #NHS staff with proper PPE and implement staff testing for #COVID19 has put vulnerable patients at even greater risk.These are the reasons:1. Thousands of

Lu Chen

houndcl

(1/) An update of analysis of Dr. Raoult’s #hydroxychloroquine #azithromycin trial on 1061 patients.https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/pre-prints-ihu/ (warning: it’ more like conspiracy theory) (2/) Actually the preprints have two versions.

Governor JB Pritzker

GovPritzker

Beginning today, the Metro East region will operate under stricter mitigations. These are not decisions I make lightly, but they are necessary ones to slow the rate of infection across

Andrew Neil

afneil

THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT THREAD: US intelligence agencies have told the White House that Chinese government itself does not know the extent of the coronavirus and has no better

bhakt4ever

bhakt4ever

Is everything normal in China? Some reports, videos tell otherwise https://www.wionews.com/world/is-everything-normal-in-china-some-reports-videos-tell-otherwise-289537 @wionews Must watch this Chinese researchers isolated deadly bat coronaviruses ne

Kira Newman, MD, PhD

KiraNewmanMDPhD

There is a lot of discussion about whether #coronavirus infection will result in long-term #immunity. We don't yet have data on this, but in the meantime, a brief discussion of

Venk Murthy

venkmurthy

Mounting evidence that large number of COVID19 cases have not been diagnosed.https://twitter.com/nataliexdean/status/1253764686539087874 h/t @raj_mehta Issue is that this uses assay from Disaster Management Group (DMG) based on this:https://miami.cbs

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

After surprisingly low death tolls the past two days—which I was worried were partly caused by day-of-week effects (reporting can be slower coming out of weekends)— today was a bad

Melissa Davey

MelissaLDavey

Australian women leading the response to the Covid-19 crisis; A THREAD.1) Prof Sharon Lewin; brilliant HIV researcher working on a cure, and the inaugural director of The Peter Doherty Institute

Lindsay Ellis

lindsayaellis

This fall on campus could look very different. Purdue's president offers a guess: — Policies that separate people under 35 from others. Minimize contact those groups.— Frequent testing of students

Kurt Eichenwald

kurteichenwald

Stop talking about percents. Let's talk about dead children.57 million kids attend schools.Assume a ridiculously low infection rate of 2% - that's 1,140,000 children sick. Assume a death rate of

Queen✨

milli_cent_

Just remember how one of my homegirls was gisting me how she knew she had a yeast infection but had to shag and this man was feasting on it with

Kurt Eichenwald

kurteichenwald

Questions @whpresscorps must ask when Trump touts hydroxychloroquine like its cough drops:1. What dosage should people take?2. How long should people take it?3. What studies are you relying on for