#EPIDEMIC

Wes Pegden

WesPegden

The following study is being widely shared as definitive evidence that 76% of the population of Manaus, Brazil, became infected with COVID-19.Quick thread on placing this study in the proper

Elizabeth Humphrys

anintegralstate

This by @engagedpractx is excellent. I'm in a high risk group and so have to be very cautious about what I do, and I always feel like I can make

FatdoctorUK

thefatdoctoruk

We #doctors are taught to believe that the solution to the so-called #obesity epidemic is to tell our patients to lose weight. I think that's the WORSE thing we can

Brian Mullin

bamullinspeaks

The question isn’t whether I liked #ItsASin (I didn’t) but whether we can move beyond moralism in telling the story of AIDS. As someone living with #HIV, I found its

ray'lI' DoS

Ms_Riley_Guprz

Part of the reason America is so broken is because there really exists a segment of our government that is actively trying to make life worse for others.They may be

Dr. Theresa Tam

CPHO_Canada

1/3 your actions matter! Every decision we make to reduce our risk of exposure and every precaution we take to slow the spread of #COVID19 in our communities, can

Anthony Tao

anthonytao

Having been rejected from multiple hotels in the past 10 days (I've been traveling with a friend around NW China on vacation), it seems to me that receptionists and hoteliers

François Rincon

jaztrophysicist

Lots of chatter about children potentially more at risk of new covid variant, and impact of delaying second vax doses. Both appear to be not yet entirely settled, tricky scientific

Didi Chanoch

didic

Here's the thing about big transphobic books: They will get kids killed. They have gotten kids killed. Does that sound hyperbolic? It isn't. Here's why. The rate of suicide attempts

Justin Lessler

JustinLessler

Our recent preprint in @medrxivpreprint with @QifangB @andrewazman @datcummings and others uses serological data to show how #SARSCoV2 entered and transmitted within homes in Geneva, Switzerland. Here are a few

Fahad Hasin

fahadmh

Mixed feelings on the approval of two vaccines in India. Happy to see India finally get going on vaccines, but serious doubt over the process & evidence used. There's a

Miguel Hernán

_MiguelHernan

1/Look at the shape of these curves. New York and Madrid had similar epidemics until they spectacularly diverged.In March, both cities were caught by surprise and shut down because of

🔥 Kareem Carr 🔥

kareem_carr

Here are my TWO simple rules for deciding who's an expert (both during a pandemic and in general)! I don't think we should automatically believe people who say they're

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

If COVID virus or mutant variants cause asymptomatic/mild infection in vaccinated people or reinfection, think of it as a booster dose of vaccine that protects from severe disease/death.Best protection from

Tim Colbourn

timcolbourn

** One year of #UKCovid19 policy failures *** THREADOne year on here are some reflections for the record. 1/ Perhaps useful for a future government to stop the next pandemic.

el gato malo

boriquagato

anyone still presuming that a + PCR test is showing a covid case needs to read this v carefully:even 25 cycles of amplification, 70% of "positives" are not "cases." virus

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