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varungrover
Dear housing societies - if somebody in your area is tested positive & home- quarantined (because they are asymptomatic or due to shortage of beds in hospitals), please step up
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Dr Dominic Pimenta
DrDomPimenta
This upset a lot of people. So maybe I should explain what I mean. 1) We are currently attempting to live “with” Covid- with sustained community transmission and continued lifting
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Amelia Horgan
joan0fsnark
sitting in open air spaces, while keeping more than droplet spreading distance apart, even “”unnecessary”” sunbathing is so so so much less dangerous than the situation that the Government has
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Daniil Gorbatenko
Daniilgor
A French study once again shows minimal transmission of C19 by children.This, to me, is another massive piece of evidence in favor of aerosols as the core route of transmission
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Dan Diekema
dan_diekema
Big challenge to learn performance (sens/spec) of various #COVID19 tests, which vary by test method, by site tested (NP, OP, sputum, trach aspirate/BAL) and perhaps most importantly by day from
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Swacch (Uro)Surgeon
viswas_mr
Latest "Scientific Brief: SARS-CoV-2 Transmission" by CDC Updated May 7, 2021(A thread)1/n SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted by exposure to infectious respiratory fluids -The principal mode by which people are infected with
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Abraar Karan
AbraarKaran
THREAD1/ Have seen comments floating around re whether the numbers used in this article are exactly correct or completely fit the epidemiology of spread etc; the footnotes clearly state these
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Jeremy Howard
jeremyphoward
Western doctors didn't believe the young Malaysian-Chinese doctor, Wu Lien-teh, who realized that the 1910 Manchurian Plague was transmitted through the air, and that a simple cotton mask could reduce
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Arj Singh
singharj
Boris Johnson writes to Keir Starmer to highlight the fact that the guidance on care homes was written when there was no community transmission.But it was not replaced until March
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The Other Mike Wazowski
karchmic
Yeah, this ain't it chief...1) Only preliminary evidence (albeit growing) suggests that there is a *reduction*, not elimination, of infection and transmission.2) We have little data to describe how effective
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Deepti Gurdasani
dgurdasani1
Given the recent public statements by several govt advisors regarding opening of schools, here's a thread on evidence around COVID in children:The govt (& UK scientific 'experts') have recently cited
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Jordan Schachtel
JordanSchachtel
Reminder: "Flatten the curve" does not mean destroy the virus. That was never the intent. Flatten the curve means extend the transmission timeline. This was always the rationale. It's now
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Abraar Karan
AbraarKaran
1/ One of the big failures in our epidemic response is expertise that is rightfully concerned with all the nuances and details but fails to see the bigger picture— so
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Dr. Angela Rasmussen
angie_rasmussen
Something has really been bothering me a lot and it's the notion that there is a scientific debate about whether aerosol transmission of #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #coronavirus occurs. I don't think
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Dr. J Robson
JenniferRobson8
Interesting summary of #COVID19 + school reopenings -- policy approaches and outcomes to date. Source: https://globalhealth.washington.edu/news/2020/07/13/how-reopen-schools-what-science-and-other-countries-teach-us-new-york-times-includes
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Tracey Diane
TraceyDiane3
Copied from another post: I was tired of hearing how Trump “did nothing” until March.... So I did research. Here’s the real timeline of what happened (all of this BEFORE
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