#Epidemics

Marc Lipsitch

mlipsitch

This week @US_FDA called for confirmed infection (+-symptoms) as a primary or secondary endpoint in #SARSCoV2 #vaccine trials. Last year @rebeccajk13 @Steve_Bellan Rui Wang and Matt HItchings we recently proposed

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

Epidemics are not won over Twitter.They are not won in boardrooms.They are not won in hospitals.They are not won on TV.They are won in the community. Take it from a

Hannah Fry

FryRsquared

Irredeemably, y'say?Well that sounds like a challenge..https://twitter.com/StigAbell/status/1346852676328452096 Tell you what. How about this one as a start. A glorious and ingenious way to keep cake tasting delicious thanks to maths:ht

JenniferF

j5foun10

Proof that POTUS does not understand education and that he (or BDV for him) has been in ZERO contact with schools. Spring was NOT “Virtual Learning,” it was CRISIS Learning.

Sarah Living on the New Earth

Sarah__RB

What if the virus is not the cause of the symptoms. Viruses are part of the communication system between cells, produced, especially by dying cells to signal that there is

Virginia Heffernan

page88

Anyone know what became of this impressive April 2020 vow — and the $1b?https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/technology/jack-dorsey-donate-1-billion-coronavirus.html Thanks to @felixsalmon, quick data on Dorsey’s big gifts: $15m each to C

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

Jeremy Farrar

JeremyFarrar

Plan Continuation bias (PCB) - playing a role in COVID19? Lessons from aviation industry. A fancy name for “get-there-itis”. PCB which is an unconscious cognitive bias to continue the original

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

1/ It is *problematic* how quick people are to judge how other people may have been infected by #covid19. This judgment re-enforces stigma; this is a destructive force that makes

Dr. Lynora Saxinger 🇨🇦

AntibioticDoc

COVID myth busting:I am an Infectious Diseases doc in Alberta.I am still hearing people saying “rates are high because we are testing so much.” This is a dangerous and wrong

Moolie61 #KBF

moolie61

Article by Dan Astin Gregory on FB1/ WHO IS AT THE HEART OF THE PROBLEM?Many people are angry and frustrated with the UK governments handing the of the Pandemic, with

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

Dorms are like cruise ships on land or prisons without bars: people living in proximity, in frequent contact, over extended periods of time. For many infectious pathogens, such settings are

Aniyia (🗣 Anita without the T) ❤️

operaqueenie

This is an interesting diagram from a paper about “infodemics” in response to epidemics. I think the same applies to political disinformation. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-00994-6#Sec1Diagram explained in my next t

blue lives splatter 📉

postcyborg

In Mask Off, we discussed the reduction in work hours being the equivalent to 305 M jobs, or a loss of 10.7%. This was based off an older report that

siobhan

siointerrupted

So much misinformation or... non information on this website surrounding international students and fall 2020. Let's make a couple of things clear. #highered Normally, international students in F-1 status are

Gro-Tsen

gro_tsen

I should probably write a preventive thread about this, because I feel I'm going to get a few comments of the kind “more than 60% in place have been

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