#Infections

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K_krazy_xoxo

You would've thought one year in and people would learn that public health (and medicine and LIFE in general) is basically balancing the tradeoffs amongst different measures but nooooooo people

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

After ~10 months of relative quiescence we've started to see some striking evolution of SARS-CoV-2 with a repeated evolutionary pattern in the SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern emerging from the UK,

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

Wondering whether the national COVID data is just a blip or something more substantive?I think there is something good going onCases across the U.S. really are falling...and while its only

Dr Lindsay Broadbent

LindsayBbent

Plaque assays are how we work out how much SARS-COV-2 we have in a sample. And they’re great to illustrate how infections in people work too! The virus causes damage

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) On the eve of Quebec’s announcement of a total lockdown for at least three weeks, the province posted a staggering single-day increase of 31 #COVID19 outbreaks in health-care institutions.

Ananyo Bhattacharya

Ananyo

I hate lockdowns and I hate schools being closed. Which is why I don't want a fourth lockdown later this year. How do we avoid that? 1/ First let's counter

Flavio Toxvaerd

toxvaerd1

In discussing control measures, many people think in terms of intratemporal tradeoffs (health vs wealth), while most economists think also about the intertemporal tradeoffs (health AND wealth today vs health

Philip Watson

PhilipWatson_

"First Minister Arlene Foster has said there are few options left to curb the crisis, apart from a possible curfew."When your actions don't seem to be working, you change them,

Jill Stark

jillastark

At the risk of sounding like an armchair expert, isn't it possible that NSW's contact tracing team is doing a better job because, you know, they haven't had many cases

Banjot Kaur

Banjotkaur

The fact they are not sharing efficiacy data is making them give such statements. Somani: Till date, 22,500 participants have been vaccinated in ph_3.The vaccine has been found to be

Karen Harradine

KarenH777

1/6 I have had ME/CFS for almost 15 years. I have been badly ill with it, very prone to all sorts of infection which I have difficulty fighting off, so

Charlie Haynes

charliehtweets

Some good news: it looks like the Oxford vaccine may both substantially reduce transmission AND reduces symptomatic infections in people who've had just a single dose for 3 months -

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wbbwonho

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eugyppius

eugyppius1

1. Since this thread took off, I’ve read a lot of pro-lockdown content. These are huge twitter networks, dominated by people claiming to be academics, doctors. Their ideas and statements

Federico Andres Lois

federicolois

1/n It is our view with @LDjaparidze that lockdowns cause harm in subtle way. They do stop the virus, mind you, but when it eventually circulates again (and until vaccination

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

Will vaccination of health care workers (HCWs) lead to accidental silent spreading of COVID-19?Big possible downside to vaccine allocation recommendations w/out data on whether vaccines reduce infectiousness.Thread The justification for

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