#EPIDEMIC

Emilia C Skirmuntt 🦇🧬🦠

ESkirmuntt

Where did SARS-CoV2 come from? (a THREAD)The answer is... We don't know! (you should get used to it). But we can hypothesize. Let's tackle the first thing: laboratory escape is

Aaron Ginn

aginnt

Japan's COVID strategy:1/ "Though many countries around the world have imposed substantial behavioral restrictions — so-called “lockdown” measures — while conducting massive testing and isolation, Japan has managed to contr

Gro-Tsen

gro_tsen

I should probably write a preventive thread about this, because I feel I'm going to get a few comments of the kind “more than 60% in place have been

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

The response to the 1918 pandemic had some remarkably familiar features, as described in this 2010 article (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862334/#__ffn_sectitle). For example, there was debate about the effectiveness of mask

Amir Attaran

profamirattaran

I'm writing a tweet thread on what I think COVID in Canada in 2021 will look like. Short version: the next months will be much worse than anything yet--we are

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Ok, let's do thought experiment. Why is #COVID-19 terrible and wreaked havoc? Because it can cause severe disease in some (vulnerable) unlike its cousins- the coronaviruses that cause colds. Say

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

John Bell - Regius Prof at Oxford - asked today at the scientific committee whether the difference in no. of deaths across countries can be attributed to some extent to

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

What is #herdimmunity threshold for #COVID19?A topic of much discussion due to large uncertainty & huge consequences for long term impact. New paper illustrates 1 key aspect that can reduce

Patrick O'Flynn

oflynnsocial

I've been looking at ONS Covid fatality stats for England & Wales by age group in the "2nd wave". So here's a thread for anyone interested in what I found

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

Gentle reminder that in Switzerland we are still feeling our way in the dark: with a #SARSCoV2 test positivity this high, the # of cases we report is largely linked

White Male Virgin

standard_white

1. This GODDESS raises a very important point that I want to elaborate on. There is an epidemic of SELFISH white people in the BNWO community, who claim to "worship"

Covid Fact Check UK

fact_covid

The government has published a preprint on the role of children in transmission of COVID-19. It was considered at SAGE on 4/11: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/935125/tfc-covid

Joshua Skewes

JCSkewesDK

Quick thread on the Danish Covid-19 situation, under national lockdown number 2.Good news is infection rate is way down since we closed the country a month ago. From >4000 down

Christopher S Rose

khowaga

This week in class, we’re discussing the 1793 outbreak of yellow fever in Philadelphia. For the first time this semester, one of the affected communities (Black, in this case) we’re

George Yarrow

george_yarrow

This is an interesting document, brought to my attention by @lizzyarrow https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-management-of-exposed-healthcare-workers-and-patients-in-hospital-settings/covid-19-management-of-exposed-healthcare

Architects for Social Housing

9thfloor

In 2020, the age-standardised mortality rate for England and Wales, adjusted for both the increase and ageing of the population, was the 13th lowest in the 79 years since records

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