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zeynep tufekci
zeynep
Listen up, folks. There's much good news. The end of this pandemic may be near. But a very harsh winter is upon us. Like other viruses, this one seems sharply
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Fast Women
fast_women
I think this is (fairly) aimed at me, because I wrote, “Most of all, it was fun to feel somewhat of a sense of normalcy in the running world, as
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Dr Zoë Hyde
DrZoeHyde
(1/6) Why does superspreading occur?There are likely many reasons, but one intriguing possibility is some people might be biologically predisposed to release more aerosols when they speak.This study shows that
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Joe Cavallo MD, MBA
JCavallo972
There is a rather dishonest Igraham segment circulating online about masks. So I thought I would take a look at it. This type of misinformation is actively harmful. Here is
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Ed Tubb
EdTubb
1/n I asked Public Health Ontario about the state of testing for the B.117 variant that's behind the *really bad* case curves in Ireland and the U.K.I'm told PHO is
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Dr. K
biohussein
[سرد/سلسلة تغريدات] احيانا نسأل للإطمئنان على شخص:هل تعرضت لفيروس كورونا الجديد؟ لكن هذا ليس سؤالاً دقيقاً.ان شئت الدقة فالأصح ان يك
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Bill Hanage
BillHanage
I'm quoted in this @nytimes article from @apoorva_nyc being blunt (again) about the clumsy way we communicate risks of airborne transmission, and the way @WHO has handled it 1/nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/health/239-experts-with-
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David Fisman
DFisman
So sickkids is doing a study to try to figure out whether masking is harmful in kids??There are 10,000 important kid-related questions for COVID and this is their research focus?I
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Jenn Dowd
drjenndowd
1/ Did the Sturgis bike rally cause 266,796 new cases of COVID-19? Probably not. Lesson- Beware viral studies that confirm your pre-existing beliefs so satisfyingly. (Long) thread: https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/sturgis-rally-covid19-
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W. B. Yeets
circlesofkell
I know we’re all supposed to be all rAtIoNaL and pRoFfEsSiOnAl about the dire threat to our literal lives and livelihoods that bar examiners are imposing on us, but I
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Deepti Gurdasani
dgurdasani1
While we don't fully understand the role of children in transmission, we know that children get infected & transmit (older children likely with same or greater efficacy as adults). With
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Tom Inglesby
T_Inglesby
Incredibly valuable reporting on how COVID spread across the US and opportunities we missed to slow it. So much we all should take away from this. 1/xhttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-spread.html?action=click&modul
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Orla Hegarty
Orla_Hegarty
International science: ‘Restaurants & pubs are highest risk for indoor super-spread, as virus builds up quickly in air & nobody wears masks’ Ireland: ‘Restaurants & pubs to be ‘key battleground’
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Andrew Perrault
PerraultAndrew
Preprint: can we contact trace with less quarantine? Reducing the duration of quarantine could increase willingness to participate. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.16.20227389v2 and https://www.nber.org/papers/w28135 .
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Sharky Laguana
Sharkyl
I just had the most amazing movie experience of my life. We drove out to Bolinas for a drive-in showing of Nomadland, the new Frances McDormand film. She was using
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Infectious Disease Ethics
ID_ethics
The underlying problem not being talked about:There is no simple way of measuring transmissibility of a strain independent of environmental factors (winter) and social factors (degree of interaction)Both R and
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