#Infection

Siân Owen

implosian

I'm very excited to finally share the preprint for a project I've been working on for >4 years! Here's a thread with some of the highlights:https://twitter.com/biorxiv_micrbio/status/1282926532848214021 In a previous study

Jonathan Ball

JonathanKBall

1/nImportant validation update on #Abbott and #Roche #COVIDー19 #Antibody tests. Validation carried out on convalescent sera from hospital (severe) and community (mild) confirmed #SARSCoV2 cases:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/c

Dena Grayson, MD, PhD

DrDenaGrayson

Worrisome. After 44%-66% of people in Manaus #Brazil got the #coronavirus in May-August, the death toll plummeted, likely due to herd immunity.Deaths are now rising.Antibodies waned after just a few

Health Nerd

GidMK

A lot of antibody surveillance results coming out at the moment, which gives us a chance to think about the fatality rate of #COVID19But, there's a catch. Let's talk about

MGKLab 2021

mightygodking

so if you understandably have not been keeping up with pro wrestling news re: the pandemic for the last few days, a brief thread on how insane it has gotten

The New York Times

nytimes

Many rural communities in the U.S. that watched the coronavirus unfold in far-away cities are now experiencing the crisis first hand.More than two-thirds of rural counties have confirmed at least

Danny Boy

Care2much18

Dr. Holohan's return on Monday will mean Dr. Ronan Glynn was CMO for 93 days and chaired NPHET for 94 days, given his 1st meeting was the evening of July

Lucy D’Agostino McGowan

LucyStats

Prevalence of a disease plays an important role in your probability of having it given you test less relevant for testing COVID-19 infection since RT-PCR rarely (if ever) has

ghaura

ghauraghaura

So there's a rumor going around that countries where people get the TB vaccine aren't getting hit hard by Covid 19. I wanted to investigate so here is what I

Paula Pant

AffordAnything

Dear “the gov’t shouldn’t restrict our freedom to risk infection” crowd:1) Do you pledge to live alone? Otherwise, you are risking the lives of your kids & spouse. 2) Do

Bachman

ElonBachman

Well, the CDC just threw their hat in with the "Just The (Bad) Flu" brosThey estimate a 0.26% Infection Fatality RatioCOVID-19 has been the largest mass hallucination in history Link:https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/p

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

Two critical questions right now. 1. Does COVID-19 reinfect people whose antibody response is weak or absent? Evidence from China. https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriaforster/2020/04/08/can-you-get-sick-with-coronavirus-again-after-youve-already-had

Roger White

rogerlwhite

Coronavirus - a thread on closing borders #England #Scotland #Wales Some Scottish nationalists are calling for the border (they mean with England of course) to ensure Scotland can 'beat' the

InStyle

InStyle

While we know coronavirus doesn't discriminate, the U.S. health care system and the country's systemic inequality does — and the evidence is clear within the disproportionate impact of the virus

Rich

RockboltG

Italy & Spain - their healthcare systems were overwhelmed, they're not reporting deaths in the community and not reporting excess death figures yetFrance - Excess death figures 'extremely preliminary' due

M.E.Valentijn

ME_Valentijn

The Maximale Controle plan of @MinPres, OMT, and @RIVM will fail for 4 reasons:1) If it succeeds, 137K die.2) Natural herd immunity probably won't happen.3) Precise timing & scaling required