#Infection

Anita Wadhwani

anitawadhwani

One-third of all Tennessee's COVID-positive individuals are Latino, a fairly shocking statistic in a state that is 5% Hispanic. https://tennesseelookout.com/2020/06/15/tennessees-hispanic-community-absorbs-a-third-of-covid-cases/ via @t

Edward Nirenberg

ENirenberg

Hi guys. I just wanted to put a quick thread out here about a concern I'm seeing a lot today re vaccines for COVID-19 and their potential for long-term effects.

Diego Bassani, PhD 🏠😷

DGBassani

Denmark has been used as a talking piece for those suggesting school reopening has minimal risks. Let's clarify what exactly Denmark did to achieve minimal risk: First, some context. Denmark's

Dr. Geraldine Zamora

doktora_ging

Are the COVID vaccines really necessary? The answer is YES,The vaccines offer one of the ways we may be able to end the pandemic.- Dr. Regina Berba, Chair, Hospital Infection

Aaron Ginn

aginnt

Japan's COVID strategy:1/ "Though many countries around the world have imposed substantial behavioral restrictions — so-called “lockdown” measures — while conducting massive testing and isolation, Japan has managed to contr

Danny Boy

Care2much18

There's been a lot of drivel related to this number, none of it helpful, but I'll write a few thoughts out below.We need to consciously keep at the hand washing

Jack Pilgrim

jpilgrim91

New preprint with @TheLadybirdman @Baylism and @sio_stef describing which tissues a Rickettsia bacterium is present in within the pesky Scottish Highland midge! https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.06.23.166496v1 (1/7) Rickettsia are

Jennifer Gunter

DrJenGunter

Well, actually. No.You are incredible uniformed or a liar. Which one is it?Neither here nor there really, because I am about to take you to school.https://twitter.com/repdlesko/status/1285295914509373442 First point @RepDLesko Medical

Shooter McGavin

indoor_wildling

TW : animal abuse Today at work A customer that’s in one of my classes called and talked to@me about their dogs ongoing health issues. They are a 10 month

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Ok, let's do thought experiment. Why is #COVID-19 terrible and wreaked havoc? Because it can cause severe disease in some (vulnerable) unlike its cousins- the coronaviruses that cause colds. Say

A.M.

bhalomanush

As we wait for vaccines, let’s not forget drugs. We still need effective drugs against SARS-CoV-2 (and other coronaviruses that will infect humans in the future).There is an approach that

el gato malo

boriquagato

the real world, randomized controlled DANMASK study is out.it shows no meaningful efficacy in masks and a p value of 0.38 which is means it's really just noise.it's pretty much

Bloom Lab

jbloom_lab

Our new study led by @khdcrawford in collaboration with @HelenChuMD looks at the dynamics of neutralizing antibodies in the 3-4 months following recovery from infection with #SARSCoV2 (1/9):https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.06

el gato malo

boriquagato

this study finds that early cov-19 cases in the US were 80X higher than reportedthis validates what many of us has been saying for months:this disease was much more widespread/much

wretchardthecat

wretchardthecat

Assuming the infection vector is a function of virus laden aerosol, then masks reduce the range of a droplet cloud by reducing velocity. If you drew circles on a floor

ProtectAB

protect_AB

@shandro @jkenney @GoAHealth I just returned from being on-call for a rural hospital for the long weekend. During the past 4 days, I had to resuscitate two people who were

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