#Presymptomatic

Theonewhoknows

Theonew16516042

Rant thread 2.0 (sorry its a long one for me) things I'm either sick of hearing or am still hearing from covid idiots/deniers/cult memebers this week. Sorry if im repeating

Farzad Mostashari

Farzad_MD

1/ I was glad to be asked by @ScottGottliebMD & @ASlavitt to sign on to this important bipartisan proposal to CongressLet me tell you why I liked this proposal, and

A.M.

bhalomanush

I have been talking about treatments for COVID-19 for nearly 15 months based on published data in the gold standard randomized clinical trials. What I will say here isn't new;

Farzad Mostashari

Farzad_MD

1/ We are here on a Congressional Briefing with 4 independent primary care docs, I will highlight some notable quoteshttps://twitter.com/PEPC_DC/status/1266386021303947271 2/ Dr Sumana Reddy describes how community PCPs knowledge of

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

A wedding in rural Maine led to the state's largest #covid19 outbreak. The screening for the party was symptom and temperature checks. The presumed index case showed symptoms the day

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

A few thoughts on these interpretations, that appear to suggest (with caveats) that schools in England haven't necessarily contributed much to transmission. The evidence presented here does not necessarily support

Sam Wang

SamWangPhD

I'm thinking quantitatively about the risk to kids and grown-ups as schools reopen. Seems to me that the only place this can happen safely is the Northeast - and that

Stephanie Tait

StephTaitWrites

Y'all I'm going to KEEP repeating this because literal lives are at stake.The data from 1918 AND the growing data from 2020 show that only wearing your mask in public

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

I'm seeing more and more suggestions that contact tracing and/or physical distancing isn't needed and we could solve COVID-19 with widespread testing alone. E.g. just test everyone once a week/fortnight

Muge Cevik

mugecevik

A lot of discussion recently about transmission dynamics, most of which are extrapolated from viral loads & estimates. What does contact tracing/community testing data tell us about actual probability of

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

I'm getting questions about well-meaning medical worker threads with strict instructions on mask-wearing, implying if you don't do everything right, you endanger yourself. That advice is very true for medical

Trisha Greenhalgh 😷 #CovidIsAirborne

trishgreenhalgh

1/Thread on objections to face coverings for the general public. See this tweet for a longer lay summary.https://twitter.com/trishgreenhalgh/status/1249743825637199875?s=20 [Mute thread if you’ve had enough on this topic.] 2/Also draws on

Marc Lipsitch

mlipsitch

I agree with a lot of this thread. Primarily - in any time, but especially these days, it is inspiring to see a government agency release data, get bad press,

David States

statesdj

Let’s talk testing, specifically the coronavirus test we really need and essentially no one is talking about. What we need is a fast, low cost field test for highly contagious

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

First, medical workers have different requirements from masks. They're around sick people all the time and they are trying to protect themselves. Remember, viral load matters a great deal, hence

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Incredible New Zealand study on a mystery transmission in a quarantine hotel. For a while, a garbage can was suspected—one of the very, very few known suspected cases of fomite