#Infectious

Gawat Jubril A.

Mr_JAGss

INCASE YOU MISSED IT: The Incident Commander of the #Covid19Lagos & Governor of Lagos State, Mr @jidesanwoolu has signed The Lagos State State Infectious Diseases Emergency Prevention Regulations into Law.

Jon Blau

Jon_Blau

In a media briefing this morning, Brian Hainline, NCAA's chief medical officer, says the hope was there would be a downward trajectory in COVID-19, adequate surveillance/testing, heading into the fall."That

John Curran

DrJohnCurran

1/11 Want to talk about PCR testing. Cycle threshold (Ct) means how hard did the PCR test have to work (amplification cycles) to find viral genetic material. @robertfservice @michaelmina_lab @FatEmperor

Richard W. Painter

RWPUSA

"The president retweeted a post calling for the government’s top infectious disease specialist to be fired after the doctor acknowledged that shutting down the country earlier could have saved lives."Disgusting!https://nyti.ms/2JZQmef

Fb

FbMtl4Real

Still very infectious in the air after 3 hours.https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2009324 @ACSP_Canada @CPHO_Canada @ArrudaHoracio @francoislegault @tvanouvelles @Vadeboncoeur_Al @PatrickderyStill very infectious in aerosols after 3 hours.Als

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

Spring Seeker

_forest_seeker_

Dragonfire: A Seeker theory. Although its obvious that dragons existed in some form or another, its never been clear to me what the ancients meant by their "firebreathing" capacity. Well,

Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne

jmcrookston

From 1979The coronaviruses are transmitted by the respiratory route. It has been possible artificially to induce infection in human volunteers by inoculating virus into the nose (7, 59). No other

Pwn All The Things

pwnallthethings

So Google and Apple just released their cryptography spec for COVID-19 contact-tracing. A couple thoughts. https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/current/static/contact-tracing/pdf/ContactTracing-CryptographySpecification.pdf First

Phil Kerpen

kerpen

BMJ: "Real concern exists that many people who are not infectious (and not likely to become infectious) will receive positive test results, and together with their contacts, will be forced

Jake Dunning

OutbreakJake

I've also been asked about this. Farting is not thought to be a way in which COVID-19 is spread. Certain medical procedures pose a genuine risk of creating infectious aerosols

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

.@President_MU I recognize youve heard things like “50% sensitivity”In light of your comments it’s clear there are key pieces youve missedSensitivity nears 100% to catch potential superspreaders and others currently

Andrew Lee

andrewleedr

So this week had the opportunity to talk with local care home managers (thanks @michellecarrin3 & @sarahfiori76 for the invite). Unsurprisingly they had concerns about risk of introducing COVID19 infection

Nicholas Bauer, PhD 👨‍🔬🔬

BioTurboNick

While we wait for the newly-massaged Massachusetts Weekly Report, the Boston Public Health Commission report is out.Sharp increases in transmission in most neighborhoods.Over 6% of East Boston has been confirmed

Zara Bourgeois/The Medicine Woman

med1cinewoman

You think social distancing, mask wearing, toxic hand sanitizers and quarantines are keeping the numbers low? You may as well believe that snapping your fingers keep the tigers away. Such

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias

I guess conservatives believe this stuff but Democrats including Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, and Chris Murphy were all publicly complaining Trump wasn’t taking this seriously enough in late January and