#Infections

El Paso Matters

elpasomatters

Many younger El Paso students are set to return to classes on Tuesday for the first time in months. But they're going back at a time when people 19 and

Tim Cook

doctimcook

Coughs make aerosolsIt's long been time for ward staff to upgrade to FFP3 around coughing patients and those with COVIDThe urgency for this is dramatically increased by the new variant

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

Some people are interpreting the below study as evidence that people who test positive without symptoms won't spread infection, but it's not quite that simple. A short thread on epidemic

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ Interesting data from Colorado yesterday.Colorado is the only state (as far as I know) to report the number of deaths from people who were infected with #Covid when they

Faheem Younus, MD

FaheemYounus

COVID Myth-busting Thread: Too many myths floating around. Here’s part 2.1/10: Avoid shipped packages/gas pumps/shopping carts/ATMs or you’ll die.Wrong. Coronavirus surface survival is one thing; that surface causing an infection

Diego Bassani, PhD 🏠😷

DGBassani

Incidence of infection among school staff in Italyhttps://alessandroferrettiblog.wordpress.com/2020/12/07/cade-il-velo-sui-contagi-nelle-scuole-piemontesi-il-personale-da-due-a-quattro-volte-piu-esposto-della-media-la-situazione-nelle-mater

Katherine J. Wu, Ph.D.

KatherineJWu

Wired about LAMP testing, apparently, so a couple quick thoughts on this new at-home test (which requires a prescription!) before I attempt to sleep. 1/https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/17/world/covid-19-coronavirus/fda-authorizes-the-fi

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

Helen Branswell

HelenBranswell

1. An #Ebola thread:@WHO has put out an update on the new cases in DRC, in the part of the country where the 2018-2020 North Kivu & Ituri outbreak took

Maria T

MariaT63954739

@SirGrahamBrady @SteveBakerHW @GregClarkMP @neill_bob @Jeremy_Hunt @Tobias_Ellwood Government covid dashboard has consistently shown 3% of all positive covid tests end up in fatality. Current positive tests 2.5 Million - current deaths

Youyang Gu

youyanggu

I launched a new page that shows the path to US COVID-19 herd immunity: http://covid19-projections.com/path-to-herd-immunity/It's built on the assumption that herd immunity will be achieved via vaccination and natural infection.Tl;dr

Matt Reynolds

mattsreynolds1

The UK variant may have evolved in just one person, infected with the Sars-CoV-2 virus for an unusually long time.So what does this mean for the pandemic, and stopping future

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

👈🏽 tweeting mood ♦️ Spooky Head 😷

Spoonhead8

Kinell, it's 8 months, the WHO and CDC are sex mad for mask wearing, and 1.6k dickheads liked this stupid tweet.https://twitter.com/PoliticsPleb/status/1318817775343853568 Mini-thread.Virus tests support masks against COVID-19 (Septembe

Sky

femmmeow

Maybe if I had been exposed to tracks like WAP as a kid I wouldn’t have gotten numerous yeast infections from compulsively cleaning my pussy because I thought it was

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

THINK LIKE AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST: There are more new confirmed cases each day in the US than at any time during the earlier April peak. But is it really meaningful to

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