#Infections

duncanpoundcake

duncanpoundcake

You will have seen various #CovidGobshites on Twitter claiming #COVID19 is for old people. They get it. They were already ill and were going to die anyway. Figures coming out

Stephen Punwasi

StephenPunwasi

Ontario is trying to blame bars and clubs, but over 4 out of 5 infections aren't coming from there.In reality schools, LTC, and healthcare are 50% of infections.They're diverting attention

Colleen Huber, NMD

ColleenHuberNMD

What does science find about use of #masks ?Here is a meta-analysis:"None of the studies established a conclusive relationship between mask/respirator use and prevention of influenza transmission."https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

We’ve all been hearing about states with spiking cases, specifically AZ, TX, FL, and NCBut there are 5 other states where data also very concerningThey have rising case count, rising

Eran Segal

segal_eran

Israel:1.95 million vaccinated (~22% pop.)~76% of all 60+ years oldFirst signs of efficacy:2-weeks after 30% of 60+ vac., drop of 25% in % of 60+ critically ill out of all

Niall Boylan

Niall_Boylan

The nightmare of Covid won’t end until we stop mass testing. If somebody feels unwell a diagnostic test is the sensible tool. Continued mass testing healthy people to get positive

Blake Shaffer 📊

bcshaffer

I've heard this come up frequently ("restaurants only 1% of identified cases"). It was said by Dr. Hinshaw and repeated by Premier Kenney as argument against further restaurant restrictions.A thread

Kate Allen

katecallen

GTA cellphone mobility data shows- movement dropped 1% post-lockdown- areas with more essential workers = more mobility- affluent core, people who can work from home = moving the leastOur story

Dave Blake, PhD

_stah

OK, every so often, for new followers, a methods thread. This will be good for ppl who like statistics, I hope. I make these plots showing R and infection density.

JoekillianPW

JoekillianPW

An observation about infection clusters at UNC Schools - Chapel Hill and otherwise: It's been obvious from the beginning of planning there would be infections and clusters. That's why from

Jackson Boxer

Jackson_Boxer

The @EveningStandard asked me and a few others about the impact of this lockdown. Basically we're still just about in the game, but unless we're allowed to reopen in December

Jonathan Humphries

JHumphriesEcho

(Thread) Few thoughts on Liverpool’s mass testing plan. It isn’t controversial. If, at a bare minimum, it detects a few hundred asymptomatic cases, that has the potential to crush the

Courtney Milan 🦖

courtneymilan

I don’t want to be too grim on the timeline, but we need real caution. This is a graph of the 7-day running average of deaths and daily cases over

Youyang Gu

youyanggu

I've made a major update to http://covid19-projections.com that tries to better account for the increase in cases and the resulting lag in reported deaths.I believe new infections have likely peaked,

Matthias Eberl 🇪🇺

eberlmat

"There is no second wave." "What we are seeing now is normal for this time of the year." "Sweden did it right because they didn't go into full lockdown." "People

Dr. David Pate

drpatesblog

Good question, Tracy. First of all, we had an influenza vaccine. Therefore, we could protect many people from the flu. Second, we also have antivirals that have been proven to

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