#Infectiousness

Karam Bales

karamballes

Johnson: The new strain is particularly prevelant in London and areas of the South EastHancock: Infections in students are driving transmission in LondonAny bet failure to tackle transmission in schools

Dr. Richard Corsi

CorsIAQ

1/ This did not have to be.Over 100,000 Americans currently in hospitals with COVID-19 and over 210,000 new cases today. We are converging on and will soon surpass the 9/11

Peter English #FBPE

petermbenglish

A problem with privatisation of testing.Now that we are routinely testing lots of people - including care home staff and residents, and NHS staff - we are picking up positive

Michael Bang Petersen

M_B_Petersen

We face a race between new corona variants & vaccines. Stronger measures are urgent. To motivate fatigued publics, hope is more effective than fear & can be given via a

Federico Andres Lois

federicolois

1/ Let's look at this paper: "Influenza Virus Aerosols in the Air and Their Infectiousness" from 2014 (we cannot claim this was unknown). We know now that we have a

Nic

niccibelli

While we're talking about the MLB and its #COVID19 cases, I want to take a min to talk about this important paper from @michaelmina_lab at Harvard. I think it's THE

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

COVID Update January 3: Tonight a thread I’ve been working on for a week. The best we know about the impact of the South African strain. And the impact on

Alasdair Munro

apsmunro

"If there's one thing we learn from history, it's that we don't learn from history"A new study from India looks at #COVID19 contact tracing And now reported, "[children] transmitted the

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

I’ve been in touch with five U.K. university professors in departments which means they’re knowledgeable about immunology. All of us agree that the variants will not meaningfully alter immune recognition

The Sharing Scientist

ScienceShared

There is much furore over Ag-LFDs again this week, with the arguments often over-simplified, & even turning toxic.It doesn't help that the government have, & are continuing to, lie their

Simply Biochemistry

SimplyBiochem

1) THREAD - A summary of NERVTAG’s (the U.K. virus committee who advise the government) opinions on the ‘new U.K. strain’ of SARS-CoV-2. 2) We’ve previously discussed our opinions on

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

When will there be enough evidence that vaccines reduce asymptomatic carriage (e.g. risk of transmission) to be able to change guidelines for vaccinated people not being a risk to unvaccinated?

Peter Foster

pmdfoster

Remember the government wanting to "follow the science"? It is remarkable how far it is ignoring scientific advice on this new ultra-infectious variant of #Covid-19 by keeping schools open... both

Kevin McKernan 🙂

Kevin_McKernan

1\But but... you ran it to 40-45 cycles? This is an argument that needs dissection. The protocols you see in EUAs are speaking to the Camera time not the Call

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽

meganranney

Today, the first time, CDC says "Fully vaccinated persons who meet criteria will no longer be required to quarantine following an exposure to someone with #COVID19."THIS IS HUGE. A thread

Karam Bales

karamballes

1/ Oh @halfon4harlowMP this interview is a shocker for selective quoting, and it appears you haven't read or understand what SAGE have said about school and studentsThis is full of

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