#Tracing

Topher Spiro

TopherSpiro

"Our estimates suggest that the epidemic is not under control in much of the US: as of 17 May 2020, the reproduction number is above the critical threshold (1.0) in

flora chang

flo2changz

No one asked but I wanted to share my experience traveling to Taiwan this past week to highlight what Taiwan is doing right regarding COVID-19 and why it’s quite unsurprising

Indradeep Khan

IndradeepKhan

Yesterdays Covid DataLet me tell you how I see itMACRO view - We are FINEA)Growth of new cases has levelled of. We are doubling 6days+. If we reach 10 we

Phil Syrpis

syrpis

The point of the lockdown is to buy us time; to slow the rate of cases (and deaths) and to protect the NHS. It (he says cautiously) appears to be

Nisha Thampi

NishaOttawa

COVID-19 cases (at least one staff) confirmed at 5 Ottawa schools -This was to be expected. In recent weeks, we'd see up to 5 school-aged kids/day positive for COVID-19 at

C. LÉVY-BENCHETON

clevybencheton

I just installed a BLE scanner. I don't have any BLE device turned home right now. I can pickup about 20 devices from my neighbours, from my building and across

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ A reader pointed me to the fact that #NYC is in its newest reports separately listing confirmed, probable, and deaths “not known to be #COVID.” The total for 3/11

Caleb Lareau

CalebLareau

I'm genuinely excited to see the extension of methods to discern clonal structure from mtDNA variants-- something that I've thought about over the years. However, I'm going to comment on

Richard Chambers

newschambers

At the #COVID19 Committee this morning.@RBoydBarrett raising objection to 'quite extraordinary' absence of the CMO and NPHET to appear before the Committee - "it's unacceptable", he says.@VirginMediaNews "Getting

Linsey Marr

linseymarr

1) Where did the 5-μm cutoff for aerosols in disease transmission come from? (It should really be ~100 μm)2) Where did the 6' rule come from?@katierandall @EThomasEwing @jljcolorado Bourouiba &

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Scotsmistt

The SNP's approach to the pandemic was always about using it as a platform to campaign for indyref2. So Sturgeon was put front & centre, to present the SNP as

Torr Leonard

torrHL

“University officials said vastly smaller crowds — often 20 or 25% of normal seating — would make in-stadium social distancing a possibility while also easing strains at the times that

Dr Charles Omole

DrCOmole

NEED FOR BESPOKE RESPONSE TO COVID-19 IN NIGERIA Different countries have employed different ways to combat this pandemic with successes despite variation in tools employed. Nigeria cannot afford to just

Gareth Parker

G_Parker

.@RogerCookMLA tells me WA has a "unique opportunity", with lots of testing capacity, to soon start testing non-symptomatic people for COVID-19."We have a unique opportunity to look everywhere for the

Jennifer Cabrera

jhaskinscabrera

.@GovRonDeSantis mentioned the NYT article finding that up to 90% of PCR tests do not identify infectious virus. "It seems to me that if you test positive with no symptoms,

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

1/ This is an important article from @CDC_EIDjournal -- pay attention to 2 things:1) rate of household transmission of #covid19 is several fold higher than non-household2) detection rate from cases