#Infected

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

THINK LIKE AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST:What does it mean that the median age of new cases is dropping in some areas? I see three possible explanations, not all good. A thread on

Dr Marie Casey

marietcasey

Quite a few people contacted me today to ask what it is like currently and what we are seeing.It is completely different to the previous waves. Positives coming from everywhere

Andrew Lilico

andrew_lilico

Is there any good reason yet to believe that CV reinfection (or vaccine-evading infection) with a new strain might be any different (lethality variation aside) from reinfection with the same

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

Recent estimates (including our analysis led by @timwrussell: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.12.2000256) have suggested 0.5–1% of COVID-19 infections may potentially be fatal overall. Some have inter

Rob McDowall FRSA 😷

robmcd85

In the 1600's during the Great Plague in London, those who were discovered to have plague were locked in their home with their whole family for 40 days. A watchman

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

What are 2 biggest impediments to effective test-trace response in US (including backwards & forwards tracing)?-Easy rapid free testing-Trust/cooperationTest-trace could help reverse surge & minimize business closures so badly neede

Dave Blake, PhD

_stah

College campuses are opening, some of them. What does that mean for faculty? Well, I expect COVID-19 will infect campuses about like Army basic training, where 80% get infected. Let's

Alasdair Munro

apsmunro

"If there's one thing we learn from history, it's that we don't learn from history"A new study from India looks at #COVID19 contact tracing And now reported, "[children] transmitted the

Kyle

DrKyle

The New COVID-19 Variant, explained for curious kids and twitterers.Imagine the virus in the book "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". Think of the book cover (pictures and words) as the

WBEZ

WBEZ

THREAD: Over the past few months, WBEZ reporters surveyed relatives of 50 COVID-19 victims in four Chicago ZIP codes. Their stories illuminate the conditions that led to the pandemic’s starkly

🇺🇸Veterans For Biden🇺🇸

Vets4Biden

Short thread: I just walked out of the ER for one of my last overnight shifts. Last night we had a 67 y/o man brought to the ER by his

MariNaomi

marinaomi

If 40% of folks infected by COVID are asymptomatic, we should be testing people (after travel, exposure, etc.), not quarantining them and waiting for signs that likely won't even appear

Bloom Lab

jbloom_lab

Our study mapping #SARSCoV2 mutations that escape key therapeutic monoclonal antibodies is out in @ScienceMagazine. The study also shows that some of these escape mutations arise in a persistently infected

Joy Bhattacharjya

joybhattacharj

On this day, 123 years ago, a 40 year old Almora born doctor made a discovery that changed the world. Malaria has killed more people in the history of mankind

Ali

aliostad

#IMPORTANT A medical official in Tehran reports that they have started to see an increasing number of reinfections: patients already infected in March and now come back with different and

Joshua B. Hoe

JoshuaBHoe

Someone just wrote a response to one of my tweets about COVID conditions in prisons...they said:"Maybe they shouldn't have gone to prison"The sheer lack of empathy it takes to be

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