#Influenza

Andrew Neil

afneil

Some thoughts on weekly deaths, England & Wales. We now have the ONS stats up til March 20th. Weekly deaths in 2020 have actually been trending bit below previous 5-year

B. T. Roberts

BTRobertsFMC

1919 Diary of Free Methodist Bishop B. R. Jones on the Spanish Flu:"During the first part of the year we were greatly handicapped in our work by the dread disease,

Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician)

jeremyfaust

2020 will be the deadliest year in modern American history.We will see >3 million deaths for the first time ever.In fact, well over that number.Join me for a thread on

Dalton Godbey

DaltonTVNews

NOW: @StevenStackMD, State Epidemiologist Dr. Doug Thoroughman meeting with Program Review and Investigation Committee in Frankfort. Lawmakers and state health officials discussing COVID-19 testing and reporting process. Dr. Thoroughman pre

Raj Sivaraman

rajsivaraman

Hey, It’s me - a virologist! #SARSCoV2 isn’t man made and here’s why /1 Let’s start with WHY - why would someone make this virus in a lab?Making money from

Milhouse Van Houten 😀

Milhouse_Van_Ho

September 29, 2020 - Canada/Ontario/Québec daily updateCurrent data as of 12 am. Data is 100% public and official, and fully cited. 10 newly reported deaths in all of Canada (population:

JJ

JennJefferys

It's a sad day for a country when racism and sexism stop people from listening to a qualified woman.Let's take a quick look at Dr. Tam's qualifications: 1. Dr. Theresa

Adriano Aguzzi

AdrianoAguzzi

Un concetto microbiologico fondamentale è la "ID50", cioè la quantità di virus che indurrà un'infezione nel 50% dei recipienti. La ID50 varia moltissimo : può essere 1 nel caso del

Phil Kerpen

kerpen

Friday Fluday Thread: Influenza-Like Illness Data for MMWR Week 15, ending April 17, 2021 United States Influenza testing, MMWR week 15.CDC flu view. https://cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm2016 to 2019 4-year average: 2,637 cases;

FPL_DannyHostpur

dannyhostpur

Timo Werner - cracking last season, there is no denying it, but the formation people are dreaming of at Chelsea doesn't appear to suit him. He is at his best

Ajit Singh

ajitxsingh

This tweet has gotten a lot of attention and been used by right-wing conspiracy theorists to suggest that China and the WHO were misleading or lying to the world about

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

Very provocative new paper by @dylanhmorris @jlloydsmith on effects of temp & humidity on survival of SARS-CoV-2 on surfaces. Need to be careful in interpreting most novel aspects of this

WesElyMD

WesElyMD

1/ There are clinically relevant differences between #COVID19 #Sepsis & typical bacterial sepsis, but they are Quantitative rather than Qualitative. That is, all clinicians have seen them before in other

Christian Althaus

C_Althaus

There is increasing interest in superspreading for COVID-19, not least due to an excellent article by @kakape on the topic 1/9https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/why-do-some-covid-19-patients-infect-many-others-whereas-most-don-t-spread

Andrew Noymer

AndrewNoymer

At the population level, there will be FOUR TYPES of #COVID19 #mortality:1) Direct-direct2) Direct-indirect3) Indirect4) Competing risksIn this short thread, I will discuss the four. 1) Direct-directBasically, these are the

Siddhartha Mukherjee

DrSidMukherjee

1/n IMPORTANT: Can someone please publish a homology map of all the beta coronaviruses that have been circulating in human populations ? Why? Because at least 2-3 papers suggest that