#Isolation

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Short THREAD. On False POSITIVES of rapid antigen tests. This is on SPECIFICITY or the issues of False POSITIVES and rapid antigen tests. Many people are concerned that these

Lindsay Ellis

lindsayaellis

Student journalism, day in day out, has been informative, moving, and incisive. In my inbox this morning there are great clips on Greek life, testing, and leadership. A brief thread

Dr Kate J Miller (she/her)

DrKateJMiller

Rural areas can be hot spots too .... and with smaller teams we are vulnerable to loss of even a single HCW. Imagine a community where the same 10 doctors

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

Covid Epi Weekly Jan 22: Racing Against Mutants!The post-holiday flood cresting but cases, hospitalizations and deaths remain astronomically high. Viral mutants increasingly concerning. Vaccination is our best tool but only

Dr Muna Abdi

Muna_Abdi_Phd

Some university are uncomfortable ... sometimes even painful for students and staff of colour. [Thread] It is hard to explain to those who don't share the experience, where that unease

Bess Hamilton

bess_p_hamilton

For about a decade, my partner & I lived too far away from our families to do Christmas with them in person. So, based on my 10 years of experience

mo

mostudys

it’s become very clear to me (via jewel + gem’s ig live convo) that there are nuanced levels of accountability and it’s important to be explicit when moving through those.

Puff the Magic Hater

MsKellyMHayes

I don't mean this in a cruel way, because I sympathize with what people are longing for, but it's time to accept that there is no "back to normal." If

Holly Figueroa O'Reilly

AynRandPaulRyan

1/ Like many immunocompromised people, I've been in self-isolation since late February.I can count on both hands the number of times I have been out of my house since then

Beth May

HeyBethMay

It kinda bugs me when I post a pic of myself on IG & I get comments like “how many pants are you wearing Ron.” Sorry to be a butt,

The Sharing Scientist

ScienceShared

So, you've all seen the rising cases and hospitalisations, you've seen the local lockdowns, you've seen that social gatherings are reduced to 6, and we are now spiralling towards another

flyonthewall

onthewall_fly

Thoughts on infectious dose and symptom severity... a thread.There is some evidence that lower viral dose leads to less severe symptoms in animal models.https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1277210360118902785?s=201/ You might be thin

Dr Vyom Sharma

drvyom

About that damned nebuliser:National guidelines don’t even regard nebulisation as an aerosol generating procedure. In fact linked documents say the reason to avoid it is that it encourages coughing. 1/3

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

The key to avoiding more lockdowns is finding a way to “live with the virus” through:Widespread testingTracing of contactsIsolating positive casesWestern countries have made structural, not cultural errors here http://trib.al/X4AUjxs&nb

Charles Thépaut

diplocharlie

1/5 A lot is at stake on #Syria this week: sanctions, humanitarian pledges, crossborder assistance, intra Kurdish reconciliation. This fragmentation of issues reflect the consequence of the war but it

Phil Kerpen

kerpen

"I don't think I can emphasize it enough, as the director for the Centers for Disease Control, the leading public health agency in the world: it is in the public

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