#Transmission

Dr. Maimuna Majumder ✊🏾

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Our paper on the role of environmental factors on #SARSCoV2 transmission (led by Canelle Poirier & @MauSantillana) has been peer-reviewed & is now live: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-74089-7In our study, we find a

Safe & Effective Media

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The CDC knows that coronavirus is spread through feces and isn't telling us. Why? Because they need you wearing a mask so that, when a vaccine comes to market, you're

Aaron Lockhart 🇺🇸

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[thread] 1 of 2 I've been waiting to see if someone could isolate aerosol-sourced viable SARS-CoV-2 from an environment and culture it. This needs replication by independent parties.These results don't

Alasdair Munro

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"If there's one thing we learn from history, it's that we don't learn from history"A new study from India looks at #COVID19 contact tracing And now reported, "[children] transmitted the

puff daddeh

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I’m still going to post this anyway so here we go:***this is going to be an overly simplified thread free of mechanical jargons so non-car enthusiasts can understandhttps://twitter.com/ebenkb_/status/1292844439610765312 A transmission

Courtney Kallush

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@ALPublicHealth multiple studies show that kids rarely, if ever, transmit COVID-19. We should lift the mask mandate for elementary age children. Or at least once they are seated at their

Stefan Baral

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Warning!!!! Unpopular #COVID19 opinion:Testing is not an interventionDiagnosis is not an interventionTesting and diagnosis will only have as much public health and clinical impacts as they facilitate decreasing onward transmission

Devan Sinha

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Informative paper - B117 (SGTF) viral load and transmission dynamics for test strategiesThey linked 1m INDEX cases in England to PCR+ contacts across settings by age (not what PHE did)B117transmissibility

The BioAbsurdist

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Let’s talk about #masks (A Thread)The masks people are wearing are permeable to viral particles. The spaces between threads > width of a single virus. This is not contested among

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

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Two interesting examples of how randomized controlled trials could build evidence for policy decisions - whether to offer alternative housing for isolation, and re-opening schools. Useful to start thinking now

TheHarmonicPrinciple #You’llFindOut #JC

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A thread: Many understand masking - especially community cloth masking does nothing to stop transmission of the nanometres long virons & no evidence for asymptomatic spreading exists. Should we mask

Richard Zussman

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BREAKING - There are 89 new COVID-19 cases, incuding 1 epi-linked, in BC. There has been a total of 6,041 cases in the province. #bcpoli #covid19BC There has been 1

Gabby Stern

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'What can one conclude from this timeline? It took WHO just 4 days to inform the world about the existence of this new atypical pneumonia...On Jan 14, the possibility of

Anupam Singh

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ICMR has published a good epidemiological summary paper of COVID-19 cases from Jan22-April30 in IndiaI encourage you to read it at http://www.ijmr.org.in/temp/IndianJMedRes000-2627735_071757.pdfHere are key insights for me from this paper

Sabina Vohra-Miller

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As a non-epidemiologist, this was perhaps the most enlightening article I’ve read on SARS-CoV-2 by @zeynep (h/t: @malia_ailam)I will summarize the article and highlight key points down :https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k

BBC News (World)

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US President Donald Trump says the World Health Organization has mismanaged and helped cover up the spread of coronavirusThe WHO has defended its handling @BBCRealityCheck has analysed President Trump’s comments[Thread]http://bbc.in/Coron