#Infections

Sui-Lee Wee 黄瑞黎

suilee

1. Many countries are now settling in for the long haul with the coronavirus. We look at how. w/ @benjmueller @EmmaBubola @hudidi1 @CFSchuetze and Su-hyun Leehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/world/europe/countries-reopening-coronavirus.ht

Andrew Perrault

PerraultAndrew

Preprint: can we contact trace with less quarantine? Reducing the duration of quarantine could increase willingness to participate. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.16.20227389v2 and https://www.nber.org/papers/w28135 .

Arieh Kovler

ariehkovler

Israel's coronavirus Tzar, Prof. Nahman Ash, told the Israeli Cabinet today that the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine appears to be less effective than what Pfizer's study suggested. That's

Dr.Krutika Kuppalli

KrutikaKuppalli

I recognize that $22,200,000,000 a year to prevent a pandemic sounds astronomical, but honestly we should have been proactive and been doing this way before the #SARSCoV2 pandemic. We have

Karam Bales

karamballes

1/ Thread: 15th November Children and transmission, SAGE document to government.Seen some interesting takes on this in the media.https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tfc-children-and-transmission-4-november-2020 SAGE have warned gover

Kelly Doran MD MHS

KellyMDoran

Really important new study on seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 among people living in precarious housing situations (including shelters) in Ile de France. A thread. https://epicentre.msf.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/High_seroprevalence_of_

Jeff Linder

jeffreylinder

Delayed antibiotics are a bad idea. New RCT. New thread. 1/12@theresa_rowe1 and I wrote about this in @JAMA_current.A new -- and very good -- RCT in Pediatrics confirms problems with

Hilda Bastian, PhD

hildabast

Press conference on results of Brazilian trial of CoronaVac, Sinovac's inactivated vaccine, cleared up the efficacy data & made the complexity of comparing a trial in healthcare professionals with others

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Short thread:Cases are starting to plummet quickly. This isn’t from vaccines (yet). Possible we may be starting see a combination of seasonality on our side and likely seeing herd effects

el gato malo

boriquagato

this is an interesting story.uruguay developed its own PCR test and used

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

This new mink COVID-19 mutation story, which is making the rounds on Twitter is highly problematic. There are elements of truth in it but the reporting is completely irresponsible.1/https://www.berlingske.dk/nyheder/english-version-mink-cau

John Burn-Murdoch

jburnmurdoch

NEW: one day after we highlighted missing pillar 2 cases, PHE has published full data (both pillars) on new cases in English local areas (as of 10 days ago)Here are

Jens Boman

JensBoman

A fundamental error that some people make, including decision makers in Sweden, is to look at a pandemic as a purely biological system. If your belief is that the epidemic

Sarah Rasmussen

SarahDRasmussen

In case anyone wanted to see some examples of prevalence curves that do and do not “mirror what’s happening [in the general population] outside the school gates,” here’s a graph.Hint:

Stephen Reicher

ReicherStephen

This spectacularly misses the point - in two ways.First, it's not just around the S. African variant. We must all think twice about what activities are essential and seek to

Real Developments

pdubdev

1/ The current spike in Covid across southwest US is a result of the record cases and terrible healthcare system in Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean .https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-tally-idUSKBN23Q01C 2/

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