#Infection

Deepta Bhattacharya

deeptabhattacha

I've been reading the discussion on re-infection events, with some now arguing that this is not rare. This is being interpreted at the extremes that protective immunity is not possible.

Josh Halliday

JoshHalliday

From today about 13 million people (about one in five) in the UK are under some form of restrictions, including 55% of the north of England.There's one curious exception though

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

The only opposition to lockdowns & face masks in the Italian Parliament is art historian @VittorioSgarbi MP & mayor of Sutri. Today he was forcefully carried out of parliament for

Newman Nahas

NahasNewman

PCR testing & the CDC controversy. Some thoughts. Per fascinating paper (see below), we are likely (1) infectious no more than 9d; (2) but can carry VL/test PCR + up

M Gabriela M Gomes

mgmgomes1

Latest on individual variation in susceptibility or exposure to #SARSCoV2 and #COVID19 with Marco Colombo, Joe Mellor, Helen Colhoun and Paul McKeigue: Trajectory of COVID-19 epidemic in Europehttps://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

In light of the recent article from the UK discussing antibody waning - it’s important to read additional reports that show that while the antibodies are waning, they are not

CJinKnoxTN

CJinKnoxTN

A thread about ICU Bed/Ventilator shortages and actual data for COVID-19 are telling us about expert model assumptions. /1 Gov Cuomo of NY stated on Saturday, 3/28/2020, "New York has

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

JUST IN: You May Have Antibodies After Coronavirus Infection. But Not for Long. Antibodies to the virus faded quickly in asymptomatic people, scientists reported. That does not mean immunity disappears.

Dr. Alexander Wong

awong37

Hi everyone. I thought I would try to explain what all these 'variants' of COVID-19 are, and are they really that bad? I feel this has relevance to #SK &

Kai Cheng, Priestess of the Old Religion

razorfemme

Friends, we should all be as careful as humanly possible - but COVID19 infection is not necessarily the result of irresponsible behavior. We must not reinforce a culture where people

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

I'm afraid this is a naive view on the virulence / transmissibility tradeoff in pathogens. A reduction in virulence is only expected to happen in strictly vertically transmitted pathogens (e.g.

Jen Heemstra

jenheemstra

The drug Remdesivir has started to be used to treat #COVID19 and the first data were just published. So, does it work? The answer is that we don’t know yet.

Katie Mack

AstroKatie

When Boris Johnson had COVID-19, he was working from home with mild symptoms until the 8th day after his diagnosis, at which point his condition worsened so much he went

Peter Sagal

petersagal

Rewatched Bong Joon Ho's THE HOST tonight. Still brilliant, but I had forgotten that part of the plot is a viral infection, and the United States has to step in

Duncan Field

FieldDuncan

A short thread on what the media didn’t seem to pick up in the Rose Garden earlier this afternoon. #CummingStatement Cummings was quoting from the Guidance for households with possible

Some Physics Teacher

PhysicsSome

Glad to see I'm not the only one confused by this graph. The X axis can't be R, surely? But also the Y axis can't be either? What is that