#Sarscov2

Pras Francis, MD PhD

PrasFrancis

Let's talk about hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). tl;dr:1. There's a difference between biologic plausibility & early sign of clinical benefit.2. A standard must be met to show benefit-this hasn't.3. It can cause

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

"Just hang in there a little longer" We *must* stop treating the #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 pandemic as if this is something to be endured for a few more weeks. We're in

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

Roxanne Khamsi

rkhamsi

THREAD --> In this time of #COVID19, I figured it might be handy to share some basics with other reporters who might be new to the health beat. What's an

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

I fully agree with Dr. Krammer here. There are a few problems with human challenge trials for #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #coronavirus vaccines that have not been adequately addressed.https://twitter.com/florian_krammer/status/1309143153589579776 1.

Le Flohic

DrGomi

Drosten parlait de "danse avec le tigre" nous en sommes là ; non il n y a pas d exponentielle de mortalité prévisible , mais nous savons que le sarscov2

Prof. Akiko Iwasaki

VirusesImmunity

In some children, #COVID19 takes the form of #KawasakiDisease-like symptoms. So what exactly is #KawasakiDisease? It's an illness caused by inflammation of the blood vessels in children < 5 yrs

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

What if 2m/6ft is not enough? I'm concerned our 'opening' guidelines & restrictions may not be considering airborne microdroplet transmission of #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 sufficiently. What does that mean?Let's talk. (Over

Eric Topol

EricTopol

1. The early use of inhaled interferons is emerging as a promising strategy to prevent severe #COVID19: lines of support include mechanism, rare genomic variants, a multicenter retrospective report, and

American Scientist

AmSciMag

Happening RIGHT NOW!We'll be live tweeting the highlights of this talk. #COVID19 #DataScience 1/https://twitter.com/SigmaXiSociety/status/1319005860232941569 Infectious disease modeling? Translates assumptions into quantitative estimate

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.

ChristosArgyropoulos

ChristosArgyrop

Let's analyze the dialysis case from yesterday. We need to know : a) the SAR (Secondary Attack Rate) of COVID19 for household transmission (pt had largely sheltered in, so could

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

A lot of people died in the Spanish flu. This is because people at the time did not: Other options by popular demand Spanish flu was an A/H1N1 flu. The

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

1. Updated thread on children and #COVID19, summarising the latest research.Summary: schools can only reopen safely if community transmission is low, otherwise outbreaks will occur.#SchoolReopening #edutwitter #edchat #edchatEU #auspol #Sch

Christian Althaus

C_Althaus

Im gestrigen #10vor10 behauptet @srfnews, dass die von der Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force kommunizierte Infektionssterblichkeit die Dunkelziffer nicht berücksichtigt. Das ist leider falsch. (1/9)https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/

Dena Grayson, MD, PhD

DrDenaGrayson

@MIT's Dr. Lydia Bourouiba warns: “pathogen-bearing droplets of ALL sizes can travel 23-27 feet.”She also warns: “droplets that settle along the trajectory can contaminate surfaces”—and “residues or droplet nuclei” may