#Infection

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

There seems to be a common fundamental misunderstanding of the concept of herd immunity, which leads to unhelpful cross talk. Herd immunity is not more (or less) a harmful concept

Office for National Statistics (ONS)

ONS

Analysis of our #COVID19 infection survey shows that between 23 July and 10 September, #COVID19 infection rates increased primarily in the least deprived areas within each region http://ow.ly/boPi50BCMHs Rates of

The_Preying_Mantis

Kickass_monk

People are worried about not having proper masks. Whatever GoI has said is absolutely correct. Since we always want a white stamp of approval. Here is a research from McMaster

John Oberlin

OMGno2trump

I'm 64, have COPD, asthma and a heart condition. I'm fine but my odds of surviving a coronavirus infection aren't good. I'm being very careful and have whatever I need

Helen Ward

profhelenward

First results of REACT research out today; three papers on validity, usability & prevalence (2 published, 1 preprint) with @grahamscooke Thread with key findings of study of 100,000 randomly selected

Sumanth Raman

sumanthraman

For those asking why I'm going on like a broken record about increasing testing please read this thread. This may seem obvious to you but it's still worth explaining. #covid

Adam Briggs

ADMBriggs

REACT-1 study results - data to 26th Sept. Some context.1 in 200 in Eng infected (far more than ONS survey to 19th Sept, which estimates 1 in 500)R number lower-now

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ I'm going to try to explain this once more for all the blue-checks insisting that they KNOW lockdowns work.The models failed. In real time. Even in NY state, the

Umair Tahir

umairtahir_

1/ Five days after my Covid duty ended, I started having nasal congestion, fatigue, and a mildly sore throat. Yesterday, I got tested for Covid and it came back positive.

Dr. Robin Mazumder (he/him)

RobinMazumder

"What public-health and well-being policies can help alleviate some of the extraordinary stressors that urbanites are feeling right now? It is our public green spaces, our parks, botanical gardens and

hal 👾

halhod

abundantly clear, to me at least, that privacy issues are not the main challenge with contact tracing apps. the biggest problem is figuring out a mapping for location/proximity>infection that is

Trump hater.

fight_trump_

So let me see if I got this right. All the soldiers at the Arlington National cemetery were wearing mask but fat fuck mcorange dick made them take them off

Atomsk's Sanakan

AtomsksSanakan

1/CA lot of COVID-19 contrarians abuse the idea of "cross-reactivity" to make SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) look less dangerous than it really is. Many of them do this

greg fell FFPH

felly500

North / South epidemiology and the economic implications A thread A few have asked why the north has far higher rate of infection and why take off faster(It is one for the

Sumanth Raman

sumanthraman

Three possible ways to end #covid crisis.1.Drug to cure.2.Vaccine to prevent3.Herd Immunity to minimize spread. Let us understand how herd immunity works. For this we need to know about R0

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DrOlufunmilayo

3weeks ago, a 38year old lady delivered a baby at Alimosho General Hospital. She developed womb infection 5days ago and was transferred to LASUTH ikeja 3days ago. She tested positive