#Superspreading

Dr Vyom Sharma

drvyom

The tail is not stubborn. Its our reluctance to upgrade our #TestTraceIsolate and Infection prevention/Control in high risk settings that is holding us back.https://twitter.com/vicgovdhhs/status/1315770675030831104 How do we upgrade?Testing

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

Globally, the end of the pandemic isn't near.More than a million lives depend on improving our response quickly.Don’t be blinded by the light at the end of the tunnel. There

Jose-Luis Jimenez

jljcolorado

1/ TIME FOR SOME AIRBORNE + DROPLET HISTORYNow that @WHO and @CDCgov have finally accepted *after a year of denial and delays* that airborne transmission is a major mode for

Matthew Noah Smith

MattNoahSmith

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

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

BREAKING: Massive new study out of #India is the first of the scale in a low or middle income country. Key insights: shorter median hospital stay before death; kids of

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

AIRBORNE—at long last—the CDC just finally acknowledges that people can be infected with #COVID19 through aerosol airborne transmission, especially indoors with inadequate ventilation. this is HUGE and been long delayed.

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Huge—CDC now finally says coronavirus can commonly spread "through respiratory droplets or small particles, such as in aerosols," when a person breathes. "Airborne viruses, including #COVID19, are among the most

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 177Nice to re-start our Covid grand rounds today. Available here: https://tinyurl.com/yyw5myns . We covered a range of epi issues (the shape of the pandemic, changing mortality

Infectious Diseases

InfectiousDz

Hawaii, opening up to tourism with testing may not be the best idea.Islands like Aruba, French Polynesia, and Iceland had seen terrific control of COVID until tourists, fully tested tourists,

Youyang Gu

youyanggu

If you're under 50, your odds of dying if you contract COVID-19 is ~0.013% or 1 in 8000. This is similar to the odds of dying in a car accident

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

How many COVID-19 cases have countries been detecting relative to testing effort? Here's plot of total number of reported tests per confirmed case over time - for Germany, Italy, Japan,

Albert Pinto

70sBachchan

What's that in US units? 1 bar in Texas?https://twitter.com/motokorich/status/1276714143068721152 85 ppl got infected from a single bar in Michigan. Japan figured out to avoid superspreading 3C's by March! Bars have

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

We have new mortality data for the US. What it shows is very interesting. To start with, here's the raw data. Note the little bump in the last week with

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Superspreading—South Dakota surpassed 3,000 active #COVID19 cases Thursday while becoming the state with the highest per capita surge in the nation. Iowa & North Dakota next in hot spot rankings.

Jose-Luis Jimenez

jljcolorado

1/ The Skagit Choir outbreak was dominated by aerosol transmission52 out of 60 infected after 2.5 hr practiceOur Skagit Choir Paper has been accepted after peer review, available at:https://twitter.com/ShellyMBoulder/status/1306352867213631

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Breaking—A person who attended Trump’s Michigan rally just tested positive for coronavirus after Saginaw-area rally, Michigan officials say. 10,000 attended the partially-indoor MAGA rally. #COVID19. We epidemiologists warned it was