#Coronavirus

Ezra Levant 🍁

ezralevant

1. Canada does not have a COVID-19 pandemic. It never did. This has always been an Ontario-Quebec pandemic. Those two provinces have 62% of the population; 81% of the cases;

Katie Baker

katiejmbaker

We tracked a 4th of July BBQ from farm to plate and found a system that exposed thousands to the coronavirus. According to our analysis, around 1,000 workers would have

John Wilbanks

wilbanks

Seems like a reasonable moment to discuss your COVID home kit (i.e. in case you get sick, what's your plan).I've got: pulse ox, spirometer for breathing exercises, pregnancy air mattress

Ron Hughes

RonaldNHughes

"Two dogs already trained to sniff out cancer had a perfect record...detecting COVID-19...100% of the time." But it'd never fly here. Bonnie would say they eat too many Kibbles and

Clare Griffiths

statsgeekclare

There is a flat out lie about COVID deaths circulating today saying we have switched the measure overnight to using 60-days. We have been reporting on both 60 and 28

Dr. Monica Malta PhD (she/her)

MonicaMalta7

Recombination: A Covid Superpower?An immunocompromised patient held onto the same coronavirus infection for 154 days. When doctors sequenced the virus samples, they found MORE than 20 #COVID19 mutations, via @NPR

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA

celinegounder

1/ New COVID variants are emerging:- B.1.1.7 from the UK: more transmissible, possibly more virulent. Even if not more virulent, more transmissible = more infections, more disease, more hospitalizations, more

Steve Baker MP

SteveBakerHW

Government scientists briefing MPs were clear this week that the effects of lockdown would not be visible in the data until this weekend @MrHarryCole That is, cases may have flattened

Jim Dao

jimdao

There are 13,000 school districts in America, and just about 13,000 approaches to teaching during Covid-19. How do you cover that?....https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/us/schools-coronavirus.html?smid=tw-share We decided to take a look at

Stefan Simanowitz

StefSimanowitz

“Sweden hoped herd immunity would curb #COVID19. Don't do what we did” write 25 leading Swedish scientists“Sweden’s approach to COVID has led to death, grief & suffering. The only example

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

If we move fast with trials for a single-dose vaccine, we might be able to double the number of people we can quickly vaccinate—ending this crisis sooner, helping with vaccine

The New York Times

nytimes

The number of people dying from the coronavirus across the U.S. is rising again for the first time since April — the reopening and relaxing of social distancing restrictions in

Yuliya Shneyderman

Yuliya

A note on vaccines. The numbers we are seeing from Moderna and Pfizer are efficacy, not effectiveness. Efficacy is a number calculated during clinical trials - these are highly controlled

Danny Boy

Care2much18

Portugal didn't abandon the elderly but Ireland did? Oh right. *Yesterday* 27 residents of *one nursing home* in Aljubarrota tested positive, Portugal have ~1,000 dead in nursing homes - and

Greg Sargent

ThePlumLineGS

Good thread. @paulkrugman suggests a key motivator of the failure to act on coronavirus was active malevolence, not mere "executive underreach."I agree. And I'd like to add an additional point

Megan Ives

nutmegnchives

I work at a COVID testing site in Denver and got word today that our positivity rate has been 22% these past two weeks. (was 3-6%)Our appts are booked out

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