#Infection

John Moffitt 🌊🌊🧢🧢

JohnRMoffitt

A Covid-19 infection generally begins when the virus enters the body through ACE2 receptors in the nose. The receptors, which the virus is known to target, are abundant there!#ALERT URGENT: Notice

Peter Vanham

petervanham

Lessons in viral spread, courtesy of @elpaisinenglish: “Irrespective of whether safe distances are maintained, if the six people spend four hours together talking loudly, without wearing a face mask in

Alex Usher

AlexUsherHESA

1/ Amid all the back-to-school plan worries, I think what we are missing is that there are two different fears being expressed about a full-time re-open and I don’t think

Peter Jones

PeterDevonUK

My baby boy is in hospital tonight recovering from an infection following #coronavirus. We have been in isolation for 3 weeks, I brought the virus home after a single short

Michael Plank

MichaelPlankNZ

The India travel ban is concerning and I really hope it is a short-term measure and there will be support for stranded travellers. People are rightly asking why travel bans

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

President was diagnosed with SARS-CoV2 infection evening of Oct 1. First and foremost, we wish him and FLOTUS a speedy recoveryWe also need to sort out who else has been

Alastair Otter

alastairotter

1/7 Thoughts on Ramaphosa's speech last night: "We are committed ... to be transparent, to take the nation into confidence". Why then is the NCC/Govt not releasing the data and

Vasudev Bailey, PhD

vasudevbailey

The list of serological tests. Summary: tons of choices and very little quality control or standardization. What sensitivity / specificity you ask? Most of these companies don't publish it, and

北海道 Hell-Billy / Ben Steiner

Ben_Steiner

Kinda long but VERY important #COVID19Japan data simulation thread related to required #socialdistancing in Japan. The TL;DR version: 1) w/o further decreases in travel throughout Japan, we may not see

Lucian DiPeso

luciandipeso

Antivaxxers like to talk about "doing the research," but seem woefully inept at interpreting evidence. They depend entirely on what the author claims to have done. But, that's not evidence:

Aproko Doctor

aproko_doctor

Some of you think it was fasting that caused their stomach ulcer, when it was either caused by H Pylori(a bacterium) gotten from untreated water or food, or from abusing

Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS

BrennanSpiegel

When should a negative #COVID19 test be ignored? Let's say a doctor sees a patient w/ possible #COVID19. She highly suspects infection because patient has cough, chest pain, abnormal chest

Chris McKeon

cjmckeon

Because I am a nerd, I've spent Sunday night looking at coronavirus stats and...it is very, very bad for Wirral. In the week up to Friday, there were 75 new

Edward Nirenberg

ENirenberg

There's a thought I've had that's been bugging me and I'd love feedback from the pros on this point: I really don't like the term "natural immunity" to describe the

Caitlin Rivers, PhD

cmyeaton

1/ Although the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented in many ways, our vulnerabilities to infectious disease threats has been long known to those of us in public health. 2/ Back in

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Recent study: Levels of an antibody found in recovered #COVID19 patients fell sharply in 2-3 months after infection for both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients, raising questions about the length of