#Infected

Simply Biochemistry

SimplyBiochem

1) Today Boris Johnson announced that the U.K. variant may be more deadly.Once again, we’d like to dispel the huge fear that results from such statements by reminding everyone that

Diego Bassani, PhD 🏠😷

DGBassani

SARS-CoV-2 Transmission among Marine Recruits during Quarantine | NEJMhttps://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2029717#.X6yTHiwpVmM.twitter This study uses molecular phylogenetic analysis to confirm that the infections happened within th

CDC

CDCgov

#COVID19 can spread rapidly within households, according to a new @CDCMMWR. Over half of people who lived in the same house as someone infected with the virus got it too.

The New York Times

nytimes

There's never been a year like this one in New York City. @dodaistewart, an editor on our Metro desk, knows.Not once in her lifetime living there — not the snowstorm

Dr. Lynora Saxinger 🇨🇦

AntibioticDoc

So there are different R calculation methodologies around but I trust @imgrund and believe the public health R values are meant to be shared publicly soon. (I think?)Messaging is important-

Dear Pandemic

DearPandemic

Q: Is COVID really worse than the flu?A: Yes. Many, many more people are being hospitalized & dying w/ COVID than even a very bad flu season. To visualize ICU

Auschwitz Memorial

AuschwitzMuseum

17 January 1945 | SS physician Josef Mengele liquidated his laboratory at the BIIf section of #Auschwitz II-Birkenau. During the evacuation he took with him the entire documentation of his

Orla Hegarty

Orla_Hegarty

International science: ‘Restaurants & pubs are highest risk for indoor super-spread, as virus builds up quickly in air & nobody wears masks’ Ireland: ‘Restaurants & pubs to be ‘key battleground’

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

There are now several studies out there that together give a useful indication of the possible role of pre-existing immunity (antibodies/T-cells etc.) in SARS-CoV-2 dynamics. A few thoughts/links... 1/ First,

Emily♡

ItsEmilyKaty

I want to talk about how a person can be suffering from OCD but not recognise it as OCD because it doesn’t fit the stereotype of OCD. Even after I

Tom Pollock

tomhpollock

TWITTER EARNESTNESS KLAXON.I am certain I am not alone in this, and the reasons are obvious, but my OCD is eating me ALIVE at the moment. (Trigger warnings apply to

Rabid Writing 🗽📎

RabidWriting

I'm going to do a little thread on COVID. Not the politics which we all know are FUBAR. The plague itself. COVID is almost the perfect virus. The incubation period

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

What if 2m/6ft is not enough? I'm concerned our 'opening' guidelines & restrictions may not be considering airborne microdroplet transmission of #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 sufficiently. What does that mean?Let's talk. (Over

Dr Leslea, GIRLnecologist

DrLeslea

A thread by a colleague quoted with permission:"Today, our health minister, Cameron Friesen, accused over 200 doctors of ‘causing chaos in the system’ and questioned our motivation. This has left

Prof Dynarski

dynarski

Can/should any college resume in-person classes this fall?Best scenario I can see: small rural college real estate cheap, so solo dorm rooms feasiblequarantine upon arrival followed by testinguse all campus

Gertrud Rey PhD (Trudy)

GertrudRey

What makes a “new strain?” A new strain is a virus with a new biological property. Thank you to the #twiv team for explaining it so clearly. A thread. (1/n)https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-696/

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