#Lancet

Margaret McCartney

mgtmccartney

why be so bothered about unintended consequences? it sounds good, it sounds like it might work. People have good intentions, care deeply, want to do something useful. and yet: when

Alasdair Munro

apsmunro

New findings from Swiss seroprevalence and an good opportunity to learn some more infectious disease epidemiology!A similar prevalence in children aged 6 - 18 y (23%) than the adult population

Dr. Jonathan Stanley

JonMarcStanley

I am a GMC registered doctor. I've treated patients. I'm held to account for medical opinions I offer. Which is why I rarely do. It matters because public trust is

Charlie Haynes

charliehtweets

Some good news: it looks like the Oxford vaccine may both substantially reduce transmission AND reduces symptomatic infections in people who've had just a single dose for 3 months -

Olivier Wouters

ojwouters

** Thread about new Lancet paper **1/ How can we immunise the world against COVID-19?We’ve tried to answer this in our paper in @TheLancet: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00306-8/fulltext Ken Shadlen (@

Roberto Pereira

rcr_pereira

A ton of vaccine data has come out today for @pfizer @BioNTech_Group @UniofOxford @AstraZeneca @JennerInstitute with some good articles and Twitter threads on the various data. Will share below in

Giorgio Gilestro

giorgiogilestro

Living in the UK, I've heard lots of triumphalistic announcements regarding AZ approval on the radio so I think it's wise to offer a complete perspective of what happened. Here's

Jon Allsop

Jon_Allsop

I'm going to be away from @CJR's newsletter and more or less off this website for the next month—this year has been a lot, and I'm taking some extended time

Dr Jake Suett

jakesuett

Managing the long-term effects of COVID-19 @NICEComms Important day for managing Long COVID with the publication of new NICE guidelines. Some excellent parts of the guidance and a few things

Jin Russell

DrJinRussell

The Sydney Beaches cluster is growing. This is a great example of why it is overly simplistic for anti-lockdown proponents to rail against mandatory Covid-19 suppression strategies. If people aren't

Health Nerd

GidMK

A lot of people have been talking about it, so I thought I might do a bit of a thread on plausible reasons for the decline in COVID-19 cases in

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

(1/12) The #CovidToes mystery deepens again.It looks like they are caused by #SARSCoV2 after all, but people have been looking with the wrong test.It seems pretty conclusive now that #COVID19

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

Keep schools closedhttps://twitter.com/paysupplystaff/status/1343120741693317120 The scientific evidence of multiple studies shows that students can be infected and infect others, and that outbreaks occur in schools. 2/ Because students are

Jim Reed

jim_reed

AstraZeneca responding to reports in Germany that Oxford vaccine might only be approved for under 65s: “Reports that efficacy is as low as 8% in adults over 65 are completely

BIDMC Infectious Diseases Fellowship

BIDMC_IDFellows

1/Featuring some highlights from @douglaskrakower 's PEP/PrEP talk at the advanced STD intensive course today!Let's start with this pretty slide on antimicrobial STI ppx after exposureARE YOU READY for some

Alasdair Munro

apsmunro

It's time for another quick update on paediatric #COVID19 evidence!Most new information is about transmission so we'll focus on that for now. It's pretty interesting!Lets take a look...#FOAMed #tweetorial 1/9

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