#Presymptomatic

Farzad Mostashari

Farzad_MD

1/ Do we make sure virus activity is low before reopening?These policy experts say it's fundamental to #OpenSafely That seems so obvious you may ask "who'd disagree? what's the alternative?"I

GS

dr_gsharma

Social-distancing guidelines to stay 6 feet from others may be woefully inadequate, MIT associate professor Lydia Bourouiba warns — saying the coronavirus can travel 27 feet and linger for hours.https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/27638

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

I have had a change of heart. Sorry Dr Giesecke but you’re going to have to show me what you are doing with WHO in order for me to reconsider.

ReconfigBehSci

SciBeh

A (long!) thread about a tweet that raises many of the questions that have been central to http://SciBeh.org 's concernshttps://twitter.com/profnfenton/status/1314148449244319745 SciBeh started with attempts to prompt discussion on

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. Thread: Proactive testing in a partially vaccinated population.I will start with a disclosure. The work described was done in collaboration with @Color Health and I was paid as a

Xihong Lin

XihongLin

Our paper “Reconstruction of full transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in Wuhan” is online in Nature. We showed two key features of COVID: High transmissibility (R0=3.5) & high covertness(up to 87%

PriyankaPulla

PriyankaPulla

Thread: Consolidating my criticisms for the health ministry's handling of COVID-19 with some examples here, because I think it's important for people not to dismiss these criticisms are not just

C Pita

CPita3

Is Airborne transmission an important and mitigable aspect of the COVID-19 Pandemic? YES - here's a summarizing the evidence from @kprather88's presentation.1/https://events.ucalgary.ca/obrien/#!view/event/event_id/306929 As Dr. Co

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

LOL this is pretty rich coming from Scott Atlas, given today's piece in the Washington Post: "colleagues said they regard (Atlas) as ill-informed, manipulative and at times dishonest."The time has

Kevin K. Chung, MD

chungk1031

I am giving a talk on "SARS-CoV-2 testing and Immunity" this week. Thought it would make a good #Tweetorial.Thread/ First testing.You can categorize testing as follows:Pathogen based (test for presence

John Paul Tasker

JPTasker

The prime minister will be up shortly. We're expecting some sort of announcement on the domestic manufacturing of ventilators — the medical devices that those gravely ill with COVID-19 depend on to

Dr. Amy Tan 譚玉英 *Racism is a Public Health crisis*

AmyTanMD

@twitter wouldn't let @caruzycki tweet his thread re ventilation so I'm posting it here for him. He's an aerosol scientist who has joined & lent his expertise to #Masks4Canada. :

Paul Shaniuk

PShaniuk

Well, it looks like are in the news again. With Dr. Atlas posting doubt that masks are effective (and @Twitter subsequently squashing the tweet), it’s probably time for a quick

Aaron Richterman, MD

AaronRichterman

Here is @EricMeyerowitz and my #COVID-19 literature UPDATE 3/25-4/8Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13nbSCnJDQKtidyZR663GkmE5cX9wCwa7U5hwHWDgRnY/edit?usp=sharingRecording:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgkMKLpsCusKey messages with stud

Joe Howard

Ginteger

Currently, there is no hard evidence that proves COVID-19 spreads more effectively in the colder months. There is, however, some possible evidence that is merely inconclusive. The only way to

Karam Bales

karamballes

1/ Thread: Don't mean to join the tin foil hat brigade but I have concerns the rate of infections in schools is being suppressed from public knowledge.In March the government