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Bob Wachter
Bob_Wachter
Case #'s in SF worsening. A number I follow is @UCSFHospitals case-pos. rate in asymptomatic pts (ie, pts getting cardiac cath or surgery). Was 0.4% last mth; now 2.1%. So
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Natalie E. Dean, PhD
nataliexdean
Oxford/AZ reports overall reduction in PCR positivity of 54.1%, but only 2% "vaccine efficacy against asymptomatic infection."Confused?Allow me to explain with crudely drawn pictures why the overall findings are still
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🇧🇧 Ethereal Bisexual Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
IBJIYONGI
QUESTION:So Pfizer trial counted a positive COVID case if there was a positive test with one symptom and Moderna requires a positive test and two symptoms ... does this mean
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Cherie Antoinette
sheriantoinette
I have now taking care of COVID patients on the full spectrum of acuity: asymptomatic, mild, moderate, severe, and critical.A thread on what I have learned about the differences between
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Paul Glasziou
PaulGlasziou
How many #COVID19 cases are asymptomatic? The *incorrect* 40% figure keeps being repeated (such as claim below in 21 Oct NEJM Perspective), but best estimates are now closer to 17%
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Alan McNally 💙
alanmcn1
One long and final message from me. I have worked on and off in ID diagnostics for years. I helped develop the EU H5N1 PCR diagnostic and had several funded
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Yardley Yeadon
MichaelYeadon3
Has the Evidence of Asymptomatic Spread of COVID-19 been Significantly Overstated? – Lockdown ScepticsThe answer is “Yes”. There really isn’t any evidence of true asymptomatic transmission. You can’t make people
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Nicholas Bagley
nicholas_bagley
On colleges and universities, I think it's pretty simple.This is a disease that spreads when asymptomatic people gather in crowded indoor settings. We can't stop college kids from gathering, because
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Dr Suresh Muthukumaraswamy
DrSureshMuthu
0. Obviously it is not ideal that border/MIQ workers were not being tested. But is this failure to blame for the current outbreak? Some thoughts on the "border worker hypothesis...(might
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Yardley Yeadon
MichaelYeadon3
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2774102Ever think asymptomatic transmission was an implausible defection? Me too. “Transmission within same household of asymptomatic index cases just 0.7%; 95% CI, 0%-4.9%”.
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AJ Kay
AJKayWriter
New study shows that "secondary attack rates" for asymptomatic carriers of C19 are about .3%. Since you can't have a .3 person, this means that roughly 1/333 people an
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Amit Paranjape
aparanjape
More studies... 'What the data say about asymptomatic COVID infections'People without symptoms can pass on the virus, but estimating their contribution to outbreaks is challenging.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03141-3(w
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Scott Gottlieb, MD
ScottGottliebMD
THREAD: The professional staff of FDA’s device center advance an important new policy to facilitate pooled testing of Covid samples; which will help employers, colleges, schools and others enable more
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Monica Gandhi MD, MPH
MonicaGandhi9
Thank you for sending me this paper in Science Immunology (one of many now) showing strong immunity developing in health care workers even after asymptomatic or mild infection. Wanted to
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Stefan Marciniak
Prof_Marciniak
Some misleading tweets being circulated abt coronavirus testing in University of Cambridge. Truth is extremely good news.In wk 9 of asymptomatic testing, not a single student was a true positive.
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Sabina Walker 😀 Master Appl Science (Neuroscience
SabinaWalker18
1/x @MichaelYeadon3 @ClareCraigPath Very important!https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1330078923930144768 2.1/x That there is #negligible risk of #asymptomatic transmissionwas ALSO stated by Beda M #Stadler, fmr director of Institute Imm
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