#Infection

Danny Boy

Care2much18

Short thread on some of the available evidence re: restaurants, much of the best data comes from US, which have similar requirements for staff on masks and table layout to

Penny Sarchet

PennySarchet

I keep seeing the suggestion that the coronavirus pandemic can't be controlled until we have a vaccine. This is such a dangerous line of thinking. The fastest time a vaccine

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

Relaxing UK COVID-19 control measures over the Christmas period will inevitably create more transmission risk. There are four main things that will influence just how risky it will be... 1/

Mark Schneider

subschneider

1. The Nuclear case for wearing masks. In the nuclear industry we are used to managing radiation exposure and we can apply the same principles from that to COVID-19. 2.

Office for National Statistics (ONS)

ONS

Today, we’re publishing the first regular release of results from the pilot phase of England’s #COVID19 infection survey alongside our partners from @PHE_uk, @OfficialUoM, @UniofOxford and @wellcometrust http://ow.ly/bANI50zG7nX We estimate

Atomsk's Sanakan

AtomsksSanakan

1/YThread on a fallacy I've seen a lot since the pandemic's beginning. Someone may have named it before, but if so, I can't find it.So I'm calling it:the ebola fallacy,

Andrew Lee

andrewleedr

Musings today: The problem I think with the current approach to COVID19 is we are approaching it the wrong way round, from the wrong end of the telescope.1/... COVID19 is

Dr. Saskia Popescu

SaskiaPopescu

A few thoughts on the “airborne" conversations right now…First, I ultimately think this comes down more to scicomm & our ability to communicate nuanced situations & data. How we approach

Sass Thee Wicked Ass Pumpkin 🎃 💀🕸

premedbabygroot

Easy for some of you to shit on family med but let me tell you when I was 11 and having the most excruciating earache of my life on a

AG

AGHamilton29

If this is accurate, it would = ~ 2.7M New York residents having had the virus (about 10x # of confirmed cases). Given 15K deaths, that would be ~0.55% mortality

Nan Hayworth, M.D.

NanHayworth

(Thread) Dr. Madej's assertions are unsupported by science. In short, she's wrong. About a lot of things.Before we talk about vaccines, let's take a minute to talk about how viruses

Jan Choutka

jan_choutka

As days get shorter, evenings longer, and the world in turmoil due to a pandemic, let me tell a sad and forgotten story. A tale of the early outbreaks of

Mathieu M.J.E. Rebeaud

Damkyan_Omega

Evidence for increased breakthrough rates of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in BNT162b2 mRNA vaccinated individualsPapier (preprint) sur la vaccination en Israël et les variants. Apparition plus marquée d'infection postvac avec

Coronavirus Updates - Alexander Higgins

kr3at

A flawed #coronavirus antibody study in Santa Clara California estimates:1. Infections are under-reported 50 to 85-fold2. 2.49% to 4.16% of the population is infected3. The #covid19 death rate is 0.12-0.2%:Here's

David Fisman

DFisman

Just some back of the envelope math for y'all on TEST SENSITIVITY for PCR and covid "rule out". This is important when deciding whether or not PPE are needed for

Jonathan Shedler

JonathanShedler

1/ Key sentence: "Clinicians would know which interventions had evidence-based efficacy for treating specific conditions."The basic assumption underlying these recommendations in @TheLancetPsych is false. A DSM diagnosis does not