#Superspreaders

Tracy O'Connell Novick

ok, couple of things: first, I do want to share these, as it’s among the first attempts to comprehensively look at what has happened so far:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/schools-arent-superspreaders/616669/ This is the

Why did #CDC this weekend drop cautions about choirs and "congregant singing, chanting and reciting" from its guidelines for communities of faith? On Friday May 22, the guidelines read:“consider suspending

Francisco Marty, MD

FranciscoMarty_

With talk about asymptomatic transmission & #superspreaders with #COVID19, dug into a first & most fascinating story in public health when George Soper identified Mary Mallon as the healthy carrier

Kimberly Prather, Ph.D.

As I follow the mounting evidence, I wanted to share my current thinking on why/how SARS-CoV-2 is spreading. It is critical that we understand why/how so we can stop the

Our work on superspreading has just been published https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-1092-0, the preprint was posted a few months ago.https://twitter.com/bencowling88/status/1270549539154309121 Work done with @DillonCAdam @gmleungh

michaelmina_lab

To stop major outbreaks - we either need major behavioral change - seems unlikely - need to shutdown the economy again, vaccines (all of which problematic), or we need the

Jeremy PLEASE WEAR MASKS! Konyndyk

I would very much like this to be true! But I'm not entirely persuaded that the data referenced in this article is robust enough to support the headline.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/schools-arent-superspreaders/6166

Matthew Noah Smith

Excellent article by @zeynep on dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 spread. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k-overlooked-variable-driving-pandemic/616548/It argues that pandemic is driven by superspreaders, and so what is required are

Bloomberg Opinion

Let’s talk about herd immunity. Are some cities and regions acquiring it sooner than expected and thus have higher than expected protection against Covid-19?https://trib.al/ACe2r0n The evidence for herd immunity can

For public health & infectious disease specialists, the tale of "Typhoid Mary" is legendary. Mary, a cook in New York, had typhoid and over several decades managed to infect at

(1/7) Report by Ministry of Health, Israel, showing children more likely to be infected than adults, are mostly asymptomatic, can be superspreaders, that school clusters spread into the community, and

Corey A. DeAngelis

The Washington Post said "the disproportionate number of teachers appearing in covid-19 obituaries is striking."The author has not provided any evidence of disproportionate representation.This unsubstantiated statement should be c

profamirattaran

Was invited by @GlobalEdmonton for an interview on COVID-19, but disinvited after proposing to discuss how oil sands work camps can spread infection. Apparently that’s news which must be censored

US planned, prepared and executed a plan and now has 4x the vaccine requirement for it's entire population. In any definition, I think we can call that a Master Stroke.

Important article on testing from the NYT: According to public health experts, "standard tests are diagnosing huge numbers of people who may be carrying relatively insignificant amounts of the virus.

Marc Owen Jones

[Thread] 1 Here are some of the biggest verified tweeters on the "Hillary Emails" trend yesterday, where some entity thought they'd create a buzz around five year old legitimate data