#Infection

Ryan McNamara 🧬

Ryan_Mac_Phd

Been seeing a lot of miscommunication and misinformation on the conflation between virus infection and disease state. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19. You can't have COVID-19 without becoming

Dr Suresh Muthukumaraswamy

DrSureshMuthu

0. Obviously it is not ideal that border/MIQ workers were not being tested. But is this failure to blame for the current outbreak? Some thoughts on the "border worker hypothesis...(might

Johannes Haushofer

jhaushofer

Here's what I think it means that the new @pfizer/@BioNTech_Group vaccine has an effectiveness of 90%. They define effectiveness as VE=100*(1-IRR), where IRR is the infection rate ratio, i.e. the

Danny Boy

Care2much18

All of this is deranged and should be disregarded as such.https://twitter.com/Eintrachtrob/status/1287695104120102913 "FF/FG/Greens couldn't care less that Covid19 will run rampant through schools and people WILL DIE"Well know

Little Hoppy Saul 💙#SafeEdForAll

HoppySaul

As a parent who’s children attended a Montessori nursery, I totally appreciate the benefits & value of play and experiential self-led learning.I agree that at present, just like adults, children

Aetiologic

aetiologic

#COVID19CD #COVIDBC I don't understand all the evasion around COVID in LTC, and Dix's evasion of @CBCStephenQuinn 's questions. The insinuation is that staff keep bringing in the infection, and

Robert Dingwall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 Reunite

rwjdingwall

.@ClareCraigPath has been getting a hard time for questioning whether an asymptomatic infection can be a disease. She has a better grasp of the philosophical issue than her critics, which

Thomas Massie

RepThomasMassie

2% of blood samples collected in California in December 13-16th, 2019 analyzed in this study had antibodies reactive to SARS-CoV-2. It’s possible some are due to cross reactivity of antibodies

John Roberts

john_actuary

With more of the 80+s having been vaccinated since the new year, and allowing for protection to kick in, I'm watching the proportion of hospital deaths closely. The was a

Ed Conway

EdConwaySky

Today I've been trying to get my head round the government's #COVID19 quarantine policy. Which is challenging because there is no clear rule on why some countries get exempted from

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

A few people have asked "do new variants mean vaccines won't work"? Important to avoid simple categories of 'works' and 'doesn't work'. Some variants may alter the extent of protection

Prof. Azeem Majeed

Azeem_Majeed

I had a good discussion with @EddieNestorMBE about Covid-19 in London on his @BBCRadioLondon show. The situation in London is very serious, with the number of Covid-19 cases doubling in

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

Briefing today- BJ appears to say that rise in cases in England is a collective responsibility & people need to take the rules seriously. This isn't an issue of people

Liz “You call this NaNo?”Roderick (any pronouns)

LidsRodney

I think something we don’t talk about enough is the difference between scary pain and non-scary pain, & the difference between pain we know will go away & pain we

Doug Saunders

DougSaunders

Isn’t the school solution, as done in many countries, to reopen them (with usual restrictions—15 per class, 2m, maybe 2 grades/day, maybe masks in classrooms) and then, if infection rates

Shane Crotty

profshanecrotty

1/ This paper is the first significant evidence that recent infection with a common cold coronavirus could have a functional cross protective effect against severe COVID-19. “Recent endemic coronavirus infection

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