#Infection

Dr. Ali Nouri

AliNouriPhD

1) It's not uncommon to recover from COVID, test negative, and then test positive again down the line. Happened to ~1 out of 5 recovered patients in large China study

President-Elect Cthulhu

tickerguy

Thread: Why masks in the general public DO NOT work.FACT: ZERO random controlled trials have demonstrated statistically-significant reduction in transmission of viruses by anything LESS than an N95. FACT: Anecdotes

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Over the last weeks, a substantial amount of new evidence has become available about immunity to #SARSCoV2. This information can be difficult to process and integrate. As such I felt

Texas Tribune

TexasTribune

New: Texas reported 3,247 people hospitalized for the coronavirus today, another record high. Coronavirus hospitalizations in the state have now hit record highs for nine days in a row. http://bit.ly/2YJoZfk

Shematologist, MD

acweyand

Did you know that immunotherapy for malignancy dates back to 1891?Immunotherapy works by stimulating your immune system to attack cancer cells. After losing a patient to sarcoma, Dr Coley found

Allen Cheng

peripatetical

Promising early results for the Pfizer mRNA vaccine, but would like to see full details of safety and efficacy.https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1325767520092102659 We obviously don't have much detail about the results yet, but

Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley

lottelydia

why are we talking so much about quarantining arrivals to Britain when the coronavirus is *worse* in Britain than almost anywhere people could travel from? Australia and New Zealand quarantine

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

A riff on data, models and intervention in a COVID world. When you don't have data, you absolutely need models - it helps you understand what could happen, good and

The COVID Tracking Project

COVID19Tracking

1/6 Ten months into the COVID-19 pandemic, and there are now several test types available in the United States. In this post, we explain how each one works and compare

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

I am going to make time later today to please write out the history of measles to this group as I think it will be illustrative. We do not test

Dr Nicole E Basta

IDEpiPhD

Newly released info about the UK approval of @pfizer @BioNTech_Group #COVID19 #vaccine h/t @hildabast - Approved is for those 16 yrs & older- 2 doses at least 21 days apart-

Stephen Reicher

ReicherStephen

On Times radio today discussing the Goverment's new mass testing plans using lateral flow tests for millions with the slogan 'are you ready, get testing, go!'.I hope the reporting is

Great Barrington Declaration

gbdeclaration

1. Negative Media coverage of C19 has fuelled hysteria and misinformation. Help combat the negative news trend - share this positive information.Good News about Covid19 **The case fatality rate from

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

Dan Salt

danieljohnsalt

So months back I said that lockdowns would not work as we would not be willing to sustain the social and economic damage as the virus is simply not that

Jose-Luis Jimenez

jljcolorado

1/ @WHO ADMITS AEROSOL TRANSMISSION IS IMPORTANT (without actually saying it)This press conference from @mvankerkhove is very useful and maddening at the same time.She describes measures that ONLY work to

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