#Respiratory

Charles "No basis for 6 ft and 15 min" Haas

ProfCharlesHaas

The fallacy of #fomites.There has been a lot of attention devoted to the potential transmission of #COVID19 by fomites, a lot of money and time spent on "sanitizing" surfaces, and

Don Schaffner 🦠

bugcounter

Are you puzzled about how long you need to keep your food packages undisturbed to inactivate the virus that causes COVID-19? Then this tweet thread is for you. (1/34) First

Linnea Baudhuin, PhD 🧬

LinneaBaudhuin

Q: Why is there an ~20-30% false negative rate with the PCR test for #SARS_CoV2 ? A: Mostly due to sampling as explained by @PSampathkumarMD @MayoClinic Thread 1/2https://www.news18.com/news/world/many-people-who-have-tested-negative-for-covid-19-mi

Caitlin Rivers, PhD

cmyeaton

1/ Although the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented in many ways, our vulnerabilities to infectious disease threats has been long known to those of us in public health. 2/ Back in

Roberto Cacciola

rcacciola2506

1/7 - ThreadThank you NickDiagnosis is just the first step.Isolation/containment is the secondBasically every country professional body/crisis unit/epidemiologist and WHO agree on this!Third step is the one that makes an

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Watching—South Africa may have a new subvariant, 66% dominant—the BA2+L452R group is a #BA2 subtype that mixes with an infamously bad L452R mutation, found in Delta/Kappa/Lambda, & known to make

Columbia Surgery

ColumbiaSurgery

Donna Farber is an immunologist who studies the immune response to respiratory viruses, lung immunity, and human immunology. The COVID-19 and Immunology webinar starts now! Follow along #FarberCOVID19 COVID-19 symptom

abi halstead

abihalstead

Well tomorrow marks 14 days since my family went into self shielding. So you’d probably think we should be “safe” and just need to sit it out. But it doesn’t

Marcio S Bittencourt

MBittencourtMD

It is no news that the Dexa trial is out in preprint. Great work! Many have been calling it practice changing and have suggested Dexa should be used in all

Bitcoin & Markets Pod

btcmrkts

From today's Fundamentals Report:#Bitcoin "The Greatest Depression has started. We won't sugar coat things, it's going to get much worse before it gets better. While the stock market & other asset

Bruce Booth

LifeSciVC

As I understand it (h/t @ArtKrieg), HCQ/CQ block innate receptors like TLR7/8/9. Blocking these early during a SARS-CoV2 infection could exacerbate, not help in treating, COVID. Later in disease, during

Courtney Boen

CourtneyBoen

Critical race scholars have an essential role in COVID-19 science. Reading medical journals makes this clear. #RacismNotRace frame comes first, but this really takes lots of unpacking on our part.

Philipp Koellinger

PKoellinger

1/4 Interesting: A wet lab study from Germany suggests that some degree of limited background immunity against #COVID19 may exist in the population (~1/3 of their healthy donor sample) due

Jason Nickerson

jwnickerson

Access to oxygen - and the ability of existing oxygen systems to meet demand - has been one of the major global challenges of responding to COVID-19. As a respiratory

Andy Pickin

AndrewPickin1

All care workers will have a breakdown, be patient with them you really don't understand what they are going through.They are carrying burdens and worries they can't discuss with you.

Danny Boy

Care2much18

I'm not doing this ever again as it was a bigger ordeal than the Leaving Cert but here's a comprehensive overview of how August went and how things are looking