#Contagious

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

UK variant update:50% more contagious and the main difference is in the rate of infection in children up to the age of 9.No significant difference found yet in clinical course,

💧😷Queen Victoria

Vic_Rollison

Apparently people on my feed are angry Andrews locked down the covid hot spots - like the towers - too quickly when he realised tens of people in the area

Los Angeles Times

latimes

Some people have started to get tests for the coronavirus as a way to clear themselves to attend dinner parties without needing to wear masks or keep their distance.That’s absolutely

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) In a shocking development in the #pandemic in Quebec, Montreal public health authorities announced Saturday they’ve launched #COVID19 investigations into at least five bars since July 1 where eight

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

There's been a lot of news today about 'new variants in Brazil' & 'S:E484' and 'Ohio variants'. A short thread discussing what we know about each.1/11#SARSCoV2 #Ohio #BrazilVariant #Brazil #COVID19

kary

paperkary

I'm not a journalist or a scientist. I am a person who had Covid-19 and experienced / learned some crazy things about the ever-changing science, policy, and tech. And lack

Wesen

GoldfishFibers

Imagine if we’re talking about drunk driving. And all the public health messaging was “if you drive drunk, you have a chance of damaging your car or yourself.” Just that.

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

COVID Update November 1: When we lose someone to COVID there are things to remember. 1/ We have lost 230,000 people in the US to COVID, likely more, and it’s

✠ Cathodefish ✠🇻🇦

cathodefish

"The Communism of today, more emphatically than similar movements in the past, conceals in itself a false messianic idea. A pseudo-ideal of justice, of equality and fraternity in labor impregnates

SET4Q 🇨🇦😘🇦🇺 Trump 19th President🇺🇸Republic

SET4Q

Benefits as to why I should be vaccinated:1. Can I stop wearing a mask? No2. Can they reopen restaurants etc and everyone work normally?No3. Will I be resistant to COVID?Maybe,

WHO RUN THE WORLD? GIRLS!!!

ForTolanibaj

Since today is Valentine's Day, a day of love, I've decided to put stan wars aside and do a thread on the Lockdown housemates (each wearing shades of red), saying

Geoffrey Lawrence

GLawNV

The reasons people should oppose shutdowns are rarely the reasons given. Thread:1. COVID is a real, highly contagious disease. If you’re young and healthy, you’re not at appreciable risk of

Genevra Charsley

FlandersBTour

During the war in De Panne a Red Cross hospital known as Hospital L'Océan originated in December 1914, by Dr Antoine Depage and Queen Elisabeth of Belgium. Initially with

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

PCR positivity detected after symptom onset rarely reflects replicating likely contagious virus.PCR remains + for so longIn @NatureComms van Kampen et al. show this well. Look at how few PCR

Barsley

Barsley4

I've been thinking about yesterday's two stories about transgenderism - Ellen Page announcing that she is, in fact, a man; the Tavistock ruling - has got me thinking that our

Sarah Newey

sneweyy

At @WHO press conf @DrMikeRyan says WHO hasn't yet seen UK data suggesting that B.1.1.7 is more lethal (but these briefings happening simultaneously). He urges calm & says that a

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