#Transmission

David Leonhardt

DLeonhardt

There's a growing push among public-health experts to encourage people to go outdoors. It seems to represent a new stage in the virus response.(Thread...) When the lockdowns began almost two

Remot 🎗

Grenyucat

question for virologists: It seems betacoronaviruses OC43 and/or HKU1 infection could provide some immunity against SARS-CoV-1 and MERS, although it is not clear if the patients with past OC43 or

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

An incredible chart: three countries had earlier and more effective “social distancing” than any others: France, Italy, and Spain - the three countries with the WORST epidemics. Wonder why. (Maybe

Prof. Devi Sridhar

devisridhar

Things not looking good in the UK (massive understatement). We all need to act like we could have COVID-19 & minimise close physical contact with those outside our household. Need

Elliot Alderson

fs0c131y

1/ Dans un interview, disponible aujourd’hui dans le @leJDD et @lemondefr, @cedric_o déclare: “ce que disent les épidémiologistes, c’est qu’il n’y a pas de seuil minimum de téléchargements nécessaire pour

Liz Crash

AsFarce

a “wet market” is just a market that sells perishables/food like fruit, veg, dairy, or fish/meat, as opposed to a “dry market” that sells non-food stuff. The idea that “wet

Michael Pereira

__m_pereira

1/?No new cases today but some new information was released. Provincial COVID-19 Surveillance is the latest in Manitoba’s effort to quietly inform. The following relate to cases up to and

Ari Peskoe

AriPeskoe

IS THE UTILITY TRANSMISSION SYNDICATE FOREVER? My new paper explores how investor-owned utilities came to dominate transmission, FERC’s efforts to wrest it from IOU control, how IOUs evaded competition in

Ranu Dhillon

RanuDhillon

1/ The key – & challenge – to stopping #COVID19 is finding & breaking off enough asymptomatic/presymptomatic transmission. This ‘invisible’ spread seems to be driving the epidemic & making it

Professor Mike Weed | #PolicyAndEvidence

ProfMikeWeed

> Individual & Community Risk of #COVID19 Infection from Close Contacts in Different Settings

Tina Yazdani

TinaYazdani

#NEW Ontario has released #covid19 guidance on school outbreak management. Key highlights:• school outbreak defined as TWO or more confirmed cases in students/staff within 14 days• once outbreak declared, public

Chise 🧬🧫🦠💉

sailorrooscout

Let’s talk. Breakthrough infections (infections in vaccinated individuals) are to be expected. Why? The vaccines are not 100%. Never have been. Otherwise, our vaccine trials would all have reported 100%

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

As many have noted, there has been an uptick in confirmed #COVID19 cases in multiple states starting roughly at the beginning of June. There is a major question surrounding how

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Read and weep how the Skagit choir superspreading outbreak, first in the US, was ignored or explained away as maybe fomites or contact—a theory that required contortions that'd make epicycles

Kari Safari

galavantista

Anecdotally, I’m hearing my friends & colleagues VERY concerned seeing lots of ppl not wearing masks when out (walks/runs, also at stores); yet despite the demonstrated benefits, public health officials

Liz Wolfe

lizzywol

There's something jarring about how regional coronavirus feels: NYTimes running a front page with the 100,000 names of Americans who've died (and watching friends in NYC, DC, generally adopt mask-wearing