#Infections

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Humble_Analysis

The flu has largely disappeared; even with higher than normal testing, the numbers of lab confirmed flu have fallen to historic lows.https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1352651926626832384 This trend has been observed worldwide with masks

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

It has been a long tiring and, in many ways, terrifying week in the US. The events in DC have nevertheless obscured the growing public health crisis, which even with

Christian Althaus

C_Althaus

The @SwissScience_TF proposes to halve confirmed #SARSCoV2 cases every two weeks to reach less than 500 cases in January. What does this mean regarding the reproduction number? A thread about

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

Second wave in Vietnam, Australia, China, Japan, and news of more cases in other Asian countries.“Vietnam is evacuating 80,000 people, mostly local tourists, from the central city of Danang after

David Paton

cricketwyvern

It's hard to exaggerate the stupidity of calls to shut pubs (& restaurants & leisure) in London & Essex because of the rise in infections: the recent increase relates to

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

Oxford/AZ reports overall reduction in PCR positivity of 54.1%, but only 2% "vaccine efficacy against asymptomatic infection."Confused?Allow me to explain with crudely drawn pictures why the overall findings are still

RenCouncil

RenCouncil

We can confirm Covid19 contact tracing was today carried out at @Rashielea_PS. All parents and carers with a child at the school have been contacted via text message with a

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

Things are obviously horrible re COVIDOur 7-day moving avg # of infections now 130K, 11.2% positivity, 60k hospitalizations 1050 deathsBut two of our largest states are still keeping things under

David Paton

cricketwyvern

Data over the past week has utterly demolished the case made last week for the latest national lockdown, i.e. that infections (and subsequently hospitalisations) would not decrease without another full

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realBobbyHealy

Courtesy of @inside-:Pfizer's trial has nearly 44,000 people enrolled from six different countries. The results, however, come from just 94 infections. The FDA requires a minimum of 164 infections across

Kristian G. Andersen

K_G_Andersen

This appears to be an interesting study and would be consistent with other studies showing a 4x-5x reduction in risk of (re)infection after previous exposure (i.e. there's immunity, but not

Youyang Gu

youyanggu

Wed Feb 10 Weekly Vaccination Update:New vaccinations has been stuck at 900k-1M per day for the past three weeks, while second doses have nearly tripled.New doses distributed remains stubbornly low,

Jonathan Engler 😀

jengleruk

I just had another thought about this (and the other vaccine candidates).Maybe it's a bit "niche" but I thought it was interesting!https://twitter.com/jengleruk/status/1335925357141176324 For months now, various people like my

Rxtephen💊 #APATDAPAT #AntibioticWeekly

Rxtepen

Welcome to #AntibioticWeekly! I'll be discussing the Restricted Antibiotics under the DOH Antimicrobial Stewardship Program:Cefepime - a 4th generation Cephalosporin used for several infections; has coverage for gram+ and gram-,

Stephen Reicher

ReicherStephen

A pleasure to speak with @dgurdasani1 on @BBCRadioScot today answering questions like 'when can we go on holiday/" 'when will we see large gatherings' - or rather, not answering them

Pratik Patel

mscp200

@MrZackMorris @ripster47 $ITRM DD (I am infectious disease pharmacist):Sulopenem:- first oral carbapenem, all carbapenems are IV so used in hospital. - increasing resistance to current oral abx - cipro, nitrofurantoin,

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