#Infections

Courtney Milan 🦖

courtneymilan

I think people want to attribute this to one specific thing—a holiday or a celebration or even Trump’s rallies—and we are seeing consistent exponential growth with a rate of spread

Helen Branswell

HelenBranswell

1. In normal (ie non-Covid years) Fridays are #flu data update times. @CDCgov puts out #influenza data on Fridays. Flu has been overshadowed by #Covid19, but it still bears watching.

Stephen Reicher

ReicherStephen

It's good that debate has moved on from whether Scotland is currently doing better on COVID (hard to deny) to why.And it's true that this is a complex issue -

rbe

perdidostschool

Sharon Astyk's latest FB missive, sent to me by someone else, since I refuse to have a FB account: "Both NY and MA seem to be following a rough pattern

Paddy Mallon

HIVTox

Thread: we've released results (pre-print) of an analysis examining #SARS_CoV_2 variants in #Ireland from hospital cases during 2020. This is the largest analysis of its kind to date in Ireland

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

Coverage of disease modelling tends to focuses on population-level 'what could happen next?' scenario analyses and predictions. So I wanted to highlight some early COVID-19 insights that you've probably heard

Paul Romer

paulmromer

On Thursday, @EzraKlein published an important column with discouraging news: the new variants of the corona virus will make it far more difficult to end the pandemic and return to

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

PLEASE don’t forget the pandemic—it’s easy to be distracted by Trump drama in DC, but we cannot let up on the other global & national crisis. #COVID19 hit 2 consecutive

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

nntaleb

DISCUSSION:I am in favor of masks & intransigent w/Twitter unrigorous babble; but one must ethically try to have a fresh look when facing a new study. Let's do an objective

Petros Ligoxygakis

LigoxygakisLab

The evidence on the new SARS-CoV2 variant considered by NervTag was 1) growth rate from genomic data (increased growth rate); 2) studies of R-values and detection of the variant (suggested

Enrique Pacheco

EPachecoMD

1/@AdamRodmanMD observed that Metronidazole was commonly given for aspiration PNA. https://twitter.com/AdamRodmanMD/status/1294612901798584326I suggested a poll and @gbosslet approved. Later, I decided to to add this simple threadIf you hav

Aaron Richterman, MD

AaronRichterman

Interesting poll. Selection/response bias aside, majority picked a low probability, but 40% still thought there was 10+% prob that vaccines will not substantially prevent transmission. This is why I have

Jessica Pickett

pickettjessica

So in the past week, we've learned that asymptomatic patients may take longer (2 months) to develop fewer antibodies, which then wane just as quickly. Along with concerning implications for

Letícia Soares, PhD

leticiasaurus

Missed #ABS2020 this year? No problem! You can still learn more about the link between malaria, bird migration and perfect timing! This is part of my postdoc research with @Beth_macshack

Naomi O'Leary

NaomiOhReally

The complacent and blundering Dutch response to Covid-19 is laid out in this massive investigative long read by @DerkStokmans and @Markla94.https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2020/06/19/hoe-nederland-reageerde-op-het-nieuwe-virus-uit-china-van-niks-

John Drury

ProfJohnDrury

1/6Short thread on relationship between rising infections/new variant, public behaviour, and policy announcementstldr: Public behaviour really matters in mitigating infection spread; but it's not only behaviour that matters, since behav

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