#Infection

Vladimir Bogoeski

bogoeskiv

Let's be honest: infection outbreaks in German slaughterhouses and farms were very much predictable! It was clear that the horrific working and living conditions would not miraculously become pandemic friendly

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

1/16 COVID Epi This Week: The Peril and Promise of ImmunityCovid continues to spread in most of the US at rates too high for effective contact tracing, safe in-person schooling,

Sargon Maradkel

TheRealMaradkel

On The Necessity & Effectiveness of Masks: Okay, so this is going to sound like the craziest thing you've heard all day, but bear with me. Everyone knows Fauci, Redfield

Knut Moe

knutmoe

Public service announcement thread: 1- If asked when contacting your GP Practice if you have any respiratory/infection symptoms (cough, fever congestion etc), please don’t say no and then tell the

Prof Shamika Ravi

ShamikaRavi

#DailyUpdate #COVID19India Total cases are 78,055 and growing. ACTIVE cases are growing at 4.2% - so doubling in 17 days. This is the slowest growth in active cases India has

Jennifer Brea🦒

jenbrea

I am going to write something that will be difficult to understand unless you have been unable to work, severely incapacitated, homebound, or bedridden due to a viral infection for

Scott Gottlieb, MD

ScottGottliebMD

THREAD: Many analyses try to estimate what the “right” capacity is for weekly #COVID19 testing. One touchstone is positivity rates. Unless diagnostic tests are being administered with unusual precision only

Saahil Murli Menghani

saahilmenghani

#VerifiedCovid triggered Mucormycosis on the rise6 Mucormycosis patients admitted in 2 days in Delhi's GangaramIts Senior ENT Surgeon tells me, 'It's a dangerous fungal infection with high mortality with patients

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

It’s not just death from #COVID19, it’s also the long term suffering of #LongCovid. Don’t let COVID deniers / minimizers try to tell you otherwise. The human suffering toll is

Wes Pegden

WesPegden

It is well-understood that the higher contact patterns among younger adults make those age groups the primary driver of the epidemic. Regardless of the relative roles of vaccines vs infection,

(((Edelweißpirat))) guter Unruhestifter

crandallgold

A thread on the folly of "herd immunity" which I need to get off my chest:To begin, herd immunity by natural exposure to a pathogen is not a strategy to

Dr Elisa Perego

elisaperego78

An exchange between @BrodinPetter and @VirusesImmunity on #LongCovid The (presymtomatic) days from #SARSCoV2 infection to the onset of #COVID19 symptoms are a "black hole"Is something already going wrong with the

Laura Williams

MicroWavesSci

Reports about COVID-19 testing in the U.S. seem to frame the number of tests performed as if once a person gets tested and learns their result (COVID-19 pos or neg),

Ezra Cheung

ezracheungtoto

It is an embarrassing scene. @WHO Director General, Bruce Aylward, hangs up in an interview with RTHK when he is asked about reconsidering Taiwan’s membership. Ironically, despite being so close

Dr. Theresa Tam

CPHO_Canada

1/5 #COVID19 key concerns in : Today, in lieu of a daily in-person update to the media, I have issued a Monday statement you can read in full here:

Infectious Diseases

InfectiousDz

Outbreaks are like a test where there are the same questions and the same answers each time1. Autocracies hide infections. Viruses just love this and multiply2. No one gets to