#Tracing

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) Quebec set two more grim records Tuesday in the #pandemic's second wave: total number of #COVID19 hospitalizations (655) and biggest spike in deaths (45). In this thread, I'll assess

MD Anderson Cancer Center

MDAndersonNews

You may have questions about how COVID-19 spreads. Here’s what to know from our experts. #COVID19 #EndCancer Can you catch COVID-19 by standing closely to someone who has tested positive?

Steve Peterson

steve1peterson

Friday afternoon I got my classroom ready for fully onsite learning come Monday.Before I shut the classroom door for the weekend, I looked back at the tables filled with chairs

Aaron Schildkrout

schildkrout

Conversation, research, policy and action now need to turn to “safely back-to-work.”So far most plans are hand-waving without real - and realistic American - specifics. Smart cities and states will

Les Perreaux

perreaux

Three spam calls at our house today, then a fourth is left to go to voicemail that turns out to be from a contact tracer. Hope they get that call

Michael P Senger

MichaelPSenger

16/5 The fall that shut down the world.This video of a Wuhan man “falling dead” from COVID went viral in January. Farcical, in hindsight.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/china/video-2094890/Video-Dramatic-footage-shows-people-collapsin

anamorphosix

anamorphosix

THIS IS A FUCKING PANDEMIC, a rant, a thread:The Spanish flu was around for more than a year. And killed anywhere from *30 to 100 million people worldwide (*sources vary).And

Dr Duncan Robertson

Dr_D_Robertson

Glasgow University @UofGlasgow has reported 124 students testing positive for Covid https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-54268780 . This was entirely predictable. And predicted. I wrote this two weeks ago: https://twitter.com/Dr_D_Roberts

Sen. Jeff Jackson

JeffJacksonNC

We have a new COVID projection built specifically for North Carolina by a collaboration of researchers at UNC, Duke, and RTI. It tells us a lot. Good news and bad./thread/

small robots

smolrobots

If you want a great example of a modern echo chamber on a national scale, the UK's response to the pandemic is a fascinating case study. All along, the government

RiShawn Biddle

dropoutnation

1) This is actually not true. A lot of school systems have been working on how to proceed. 2) The problem is that there's politics involved. Families who want things

COVIDSchoolCasesMB

mb_covid

Having spent the last months reading many, many Public Health notices, it's clear that there is a huge disparity in information being sharedTransparency will be especially important as we enter

Jacob Ward

byjacobward

Across the globe, surveillance systems are rapidly being put in place to fight the virus. Some could be the solution. Some use the global crisis as an excuse to do

Joel Miller

joel_c_miller

A thread on how the lockdown in Victoria has affected Victoria and Australia. First to anyone who argues that "lockdowns don't work", objective observations disagree.We need reasonable discussion about whether

Vincent Glad

vincentglad

1/ Un petit thread pour tordre le coup à une idée reçue : l'Allemagne serait un paradis des tests PCR, ce qui expliquerait son succès.En réalité, le tableau n'est pas

Paul Romer

paulmromer

1. Offer all frontline health care workers a quick turnaround molecular test for presence of the virus (RT-PCR or LAMP test). Isolate if positive. 2. Offer the same type of