#Infection

Jo Jenkinson

jo_jenkinson

Yesterday I attended a WHO convened meeting on COVID in children and adolescents it’s made me think / feel differently about school closures and the difficulties of home schooling. In

Jonathan Humphries

JHumphriesEcho

(Thread) Few thoughts on Liverpool’s mass testing plan. It isn’t controversial. If, at a bare minimum, it detects a few hundred asymptomatic cases, that has the potential to crush the

Adam Finn

adamhfinn

On the rapid lateral flow test debate: worth clarifying that this is a “red light” test - you do it regularly and frequently and rapidly when you think you haven’t

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Please allow me to go back to this question of "do vaccines prevent transmission?". What do vaccines do? Stimulate antibody (from B cells) and T cell responses (not often measured)

Stephen Reicher

ReicherStephen

I will be on BBC Radio Scotland with @dgurdasani1 tomorrow morning (and in Scotland there is much more sympathy to a systematic 'zero COVID' strategy) so hopefully we can explain

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

NEW—How good is “natural infection” immunity? 83% protection—People who have been infected by #COVID19 “may have immunity to the virus for around five months”, says study led by Public Health

J. Michael Straczynski

straczynski

This is an important point to make: 1) There have only been about 5 confirmed reinfections out of 30+ million, 2) Vaccines *don't prevent reinfection* and never have. What they

John P. Hussman, Ph.D.

hussmanjp

2/ My reading of the Pfizer results is that protection emerges after about 10 days (which is about where one would expect people to be come seropositive) and flattens after

Ashleigh Tuite

AshTuite

I think sexually transmitted infection epidemiologists/network modelers probably have a lot of insight here and about why social circles/bubbles are so complicated. /1https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1287516065312829441 A lot of the ch

Adam squires

adsquires

The new COVID variant and how we should behave to be safe. tl;dr: it hasn't acquired resistance to anything; soap, distancing, masks and fresh air all still work; but we

Aaron Richterman, MD

AaronRichterman

Here is one more look at Supplementary Table 18 from the Moderna NEJM paper, the best direct data we have on this question. Follow me here for a moment

Chris York

ChrisDYork

So, some tentatively positive coronavirus news. According to the latest NHS data, cases are decreasing in all regions where tier 4 restrictions were introduced in December.https://bit.ly/3bqIq4v Regions where Christmas bubbles

Rajeev Jayadevan

RajeevJayadevan

Fascinating study of a family of 5 who survived SARS-CoV-2 infection. Parents got infected first, gave it to children of 9, 7 & 5 years. Only the mother made adequate

Alan McNally 💙

alanmcn1

One long and final message from me. I have worked on and off in ID diagnostics for years. I helped develop the EU H5N1 PCR diagnostic and had several funded

Dr. Ali Nouri

AliNouriPhD

1/FDA to lawmakers: your negative Covid test doesn't rule out an infection. Diagnostic tests have a high false negativity rate because they can't detect low levels of the virus during

Rob Ford

robfordmancs

The cost-benefit on "shutting things with a vaccine literally being rolled out" is not the same as the cost-benefit on "shutting things with no idea when a vaccine will come,

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