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Will Kinney
WKCosmo
You know all the people who are out there repeating over and over that "the vaccine doesn't prevent you from transmitting it to other people"? They're almost certainly full of
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Gummi Bear
gummibear737
Deep Dive!This is an important thread about testing for SARS-CoV-2 which will explain:-why herd immunity is possible at 10-20%-why testing has really let us down and led to bad policy
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Jonathan Engler 😀
jengleruk
Some thoughts on vaccines for SARSCOV2.So, trials for the current vaccine candidates would appear to have been designed to detect a reduction in symptoms only, as summarised here:https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2020/09/23/covi
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Jennifer R Hamilton
JRo_Hamilton
I’m excited to share the @igisci saliva-based assay for SARS-CoV-2 detection, now on #medRxiv. We developed a fully robotic saliva sample RNA extraction pipeline for asymptomatic infection surveillance in the
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Dr Zoë Hyde
DrZoeHyde
(1/9) #LongCovid is common. In this study of 180 Faroe Islanders (of whom only 8 were hospitalised), 53% had at least 1 symptom after an average of 4 months (minimum
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Stefan Simanowitz
StefSimanowitz
1) Ystdy, in order to explain what the PM had really meant when he said care homes "didn't really follow the procedures", No.10 said "the extent of asymptomatic transmission wasn’t
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AJ Kay
AJKayWriter
This winter, we've seen sparks of public acknowledgement that knee-jerk pivots away from pre-2020 epi/med/public health principles were very costly mistakes.And we ignored what we knew b/c some thought it
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Monica Gandhi MD, MPH
MonicaGandhi9
At risk of upsetting people, I need to address why I think teachers should feel very safe going to in-person learning after vaccination. Let's start with why COVID-19 was a
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Stuart Lock
StuartLock
I must have misread this. Or maybe not. We are testing all secondary pupils before or when they return.Then only testing close contacts... (not regularly testing all) so that they
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Monica Gandhi MD, MPH
MonicaGandhi9
When will there be enough evidence that vaccines reduce asymptomatic carriage (e.g. risk of transmission) to be able to change guidelines for vaccinated people not being a risk to unvaccinated?
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Amy Greer
AmyGreerKalisz
A cautionary COVID about exposure, elementary school, asymptomatic infections, household transmission, school vs. community transmission, and the need for paid sick days. A real life family story shared with
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Abir Ballan 😊
abirballan
I have just received information about a family that has locked up their child at home in isolation because she complained of some aches in her body. They suspected the
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Andrew💙Croxford
andrew_croxford
NEW THREAD: But one with a potentially small target audience, namely front-line #NHS staff of all stripes who have had SARS-CoV-2 infection at some point during the pandemic, and are
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Eugene Ong
uginong
Summary of ‘Naturally mutated spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2 variants show 2 differential levels of cell entry’ preprint by Ozono et al., 2020. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.15.151779Disclaimer: This summary is shared as a first-time
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Laura Dodsworth
BareReality
Simon Stevens has said that 20,426 people are being treated for Covid in hospitals in England, which is higher than the previous peak of about 19,000 in April.This compares two
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Walid Gellad, MD MPH
walidgellad
This study is getting a lot of attention, but I’m not sure if people are reading it. There is no guarantee these household contacts didn’t get infection at same time,
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