#Infection

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

HUMANMINKSHUMAN transmission on mink farms in NL. 68% of the tested farm workers and/or contacts had evidence of #SARSCoV2 infection. The coronavirus mutated & even evolved within minks before transmitted

Rachel

BlondeRach3

I’m with teachers 100%, anyone who has kids at school knows it’s been absolutely ridiculous sending them, cases are rife & we need to not pay attention to the trend

🌈Ethylene Glycol

ethyleneglycol

The anger I am feeling today toward @jkenney and the @UCPCaucus is overwhelming. People are dying because of their incompetence/inaction. And what do we get from them? "It's OK, those

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

1/16 COVID Epi This Week: The Peril and Promise of ImmunityCovid continues to spread in most of the US at rates too high for effective contact tracing, safe in-person schooling,

Pajamas It Is

HeckofaLiberal

THREAD: There’s a lot to unwrap here. Basically in 2003 during the SARS outbreak there was a elder home in British Columbia which had an outbreak of a coronavirus. 1/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2095096/

Rüdiger Groß

r_gross_

Clinical studies have found impaired glucose homeostasis & ketoacidosis in COVID-19 patients - begs the question: does COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 cause diabetes? We get closer to finding an answer with our new

Flavio Toxvaerd

toxvaerd1

It now appears that infection numbers are worse than the “worst case scenario”. What does that mean and does this indicate a failure of the policies that the government has

Matthew Noah Smith

MattNoahSmith

I’ve been following this story for months and am struck by how confident epidemiologists are here in the US despite the seeming inability of their theories to generalize.https://apnews.com/article/india-dramatic-fall-coronavirus-cases-199

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

There are debates - important debates - to have in these COVID times, but there are some either stupid debates or misguided in my view debates. Here's my list with

Michael J Wilson

wilsonmj

Brian Williams just called covid the largest mass-death event in modern times and I am really tired of people forgetting that from 1997-2005 over 2 million died from HIV/AIDS every

Andrew💙Croxford

andrew_croxford

Back to this: It goes without saying that preventing infection prevents transmission. A vaccine that TRULY prevents infection rolled out in a population will put up roadblocks all over the

Dr Clare Craig

ClareCraigPath

Test always perform worse than hoped when used in real world situations. What's key here is that the antibody tests used pre-COVID blood as a negative control. They were designed

Dave Berkeley

daveberkeleyuk

Interesting results from my new CO2 sensor; a MH-Z19B NDIR sensor connected to an ESP8266 running Tasmota. The data is sent to an Influx time series database and viewed with

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

UK Rolling out #COVID19 Rapid Tests! **NOTE: A quote says rapid tests missed 60% of positives in LiverpoolNOT accurateVAST majority of MISSES were LOW PCR RNA & thus NO LONGER

Alex Usher

AlexUsherHESA

1/ One thing people are finding it difficult to get their heads around in terms of pandemic statistics is the question of transmission statistics. Both "sides" (if you want to

Dr. Lynora Saxinger 🇨🇦

AntibioticDoc

Are airplanes a COVID19 transmission nightmare? A thread (because I am asked this a lot ) People don’t realize that air exchanges and HEPA filtration in an airplane provide better

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