#Ncov

Chris Murphy

ChrisMurphyCT

I know what I wrote below sounds harsh. But I stand by it and I want to explain why.1/ From the start of the epidemic, Trump has mostly refused to

Pradheep J. Shanker

Neoavatara

Like others, I've said that if you can pass on Thanksgiving this year, you should. But I know most of you need to see your families; its essential. I was

Kashif Pirzada, MD

KashPrime

Data from @GovCanHealth which was obtained by @kellygrant1 at @globeandmail with some astonishing stats on effectiveness of the vaccines, even after a single dose. The calculations behind these numbers are

Lynn 💥

tormaid

I’m in Richmond for an eviction defense with nearly 50 other people. Thankfully, it sounds like the person is going to be safe though December, but folks are still going

sara.art

saraart4

#PortDuMasqueObligatoire Doc OMS 5 juin https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/332448/WHO-2019-nCov-IPC_Masks-2020.4-fre.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y • autocontamination due à la manipulation du masque pardes mains contaminé

Leora Horwitz

leorahorwitzmd

Great story in @nytimes about how #COVID19 spread to NY, based on genomes posted by @AdrianaHeguy @VivianaSimonLab & others to @GISAID. @nextstrain maintains fabulous visualizations of these data. Thought I'd

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

So, @WHO has published its new interim guidance on the use of #masks in fighting the #covid19 pandemic. No shockers here, it’s mostly what @WHO has said before, so I’ll

James Wood

JamesGWood_UNSW

A short thread about relative burden of COVID we are seeing in residential aged care in Australia. So far across Australia, we have ~26700 case and 810 deaths. That's a

Magilla Gorilla 39

39Magilla

(1) Understanding the importance of changes in "Confirmed #COVID19 Cases per Infection":Not all Infections are discovered, so Confirmed Cases underestimates actual Infections.Early in the pandemic a very small percentage of

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

With guidance from this newly released CDC document, federal agencies are modeling the COVID pandemic using implausibly low fatality rate. Their "best estimate" has a symptomatic CFR of 0.4%Their worst

Philstar.com

PhilstarNews

Palace Spokesman Harry Roque blamed "pasaway" Filipinos saying they are the reason why the Philippines is number one in ASEAN in terms of number of #COVID19 cases."Nakakahiya po 'yan. Itigil

Jorge Luis Salinas

jlsalinas7

Interesting report @apoorva_nyc. Many aspects are. SARS-coV2 can have airborne transmission in certain circumstances. Both the U.S. CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/office-buildings.html) and the European CDC (https:

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown power of open data and analytics in research, but these activities often aren't recognised in traditional academic metrics. New perspective piece with @rozeggo & @sbfnk:

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

The @CDCgov recommendations to institutions of higher education are a mess. While some universities are struggling with how often to test, we get this zinger from CDC: "CDC does not

Vaccinate California

VaccinateCal

Are you seeing a list of draconian-seeming CDC “guidelines” for opening schools circulating? Are people commenting that the CDC is out of touch, that it’s never going to work, that

Florian Krammer

florian_krammer

1) So, this is the first 'serious' preclinical data I have seen for an actual vaccine candidate. This one is an inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine made by Sinovac. Seems to work