#Outbreaks

Bansi Sharma

bansisharma

1. Super Important Development (with privacy concerns galore)One thing is clear. To reopen the economy we will need:a) extensive testing capabilities.b) extensive contact tracing capabilities to identify and isolate asymptomatic

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Promised to tweet out a few more thoughts from my reporting on #covid19 clustering and dispersion factor k. So here goes:https://twitter.com/kakape/status/1262876041237991424 Quick recap first: Reproduction number R is an average.

Yossi Gestetner

YossiGestetner

Netherlands opened schools in April. Split classes in half; distancing for ages above 12.By June: No distancing at school; no split classes for primary grades.The country’s 7-day average of death

Katherine Ellen Foley

katherineefoley

Back in May, I heard about scientists trying to use wastewater as an early #covid19 warning signal. As I dug into that idea, I learned about their much larger ambition:

Kata D. Hall

katadhall

1) Governor Hogan is holding a press conference at the State House in Annapolis. I will thread his announcements and new actions.https://twitter.com/GovLarryHogan/status/1260676717078818820 2) Governor Hogan: “The fight against this deadly

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

For most people, a vaccine against the coronavirus can’t come soon enough. So it’s encouraging that there are:100 vaccine candidates in 12 countries8 already in clinical trialsYet there’s still a

Jamie Woodhouse

JamieWoodhouse

It's great we're flattening the curve but what if it doesn't go back down?If every happy recovery is replaced by a new infection (R of ~1)...We could be stuck on

Indo-Pacific News

IndoPac_Info

#THREAD: #Chinese Regime Hoards Global Inventory of Medical Supplies, Leading to Growing Shortage Outside #ChinaMasks, protective suits, goggles, surgical gloves, disinfectant, ECMO machines & ventilators are critical supplies now.A must

elliott dunstan, rabbit esq., lunarian achillean

fiversdream

Tweeting about politics is currently beyond me so! food thread time!This year, for the first time, I was able to invest in community shared agriculture. I started in June/July, and

The physician scientist

MDPhD14

How can we monitor human populations in bulk for coronavirus?Track their sewage!In general, if test availability is an issue, pooled samples could ameliorate that shortage, e.g. running one test on

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

To really understand what is going on we have to start with this tweet of 6 months ago:https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1264146918927667200 What this means, is that ~ 50% of the population, with regional

Simon Hedlin

simonhedlin

Donald Trump: "Just the other day they came out with a statement that 85% of the people that wear masks catch it."This is obviously totally wrong, and this is not

Niall Conroy

NICU_doc_salone

I know a thread on a contractual issue is never going to be one of the greats. But my Irish colleagues might take industrial action and it’s important to tell

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

The Overwhelming Racism Of COVID CoverageThailand worked hard and fought back COVID-19 with public health. Instead of seeing that the NYTimes asked if it was something in their blood: "Is

Charles Grant

CER_Grant

What will be the impact of Trump's 4 years, Biden's arrival and COVID-19 on global politics, over the next five years or so? A few thoughts in a thread. @CER_EU

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

I have been working on pandemic outbreaks for 15 years.There is a misunderstanding of the difference between the response in much of the West, versus successful countries (including New Zealand