#Infectiousness

Damian Bruce

damianbruced

1/ In a world where many people are deeply unhappy with what is happening, many wonder what they can do. How can an ordinary person have an impact?Noncompliance is the

Tom Hickman

TomRHickman

Much attention has been focused on the social distancing regulations and what they do and don’t say. But the second limb of the rules to reduce the spread of C19

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

COVID Upate July 21: There’s no reason we should still be experiencing this crisis in the US. 1/ Six months in, we should still not be here. The crisis should

Dr. Richard Corsi

CorsIAQ

1/ Return to university (part A)I have heard from faculty at universities across the US about what their universities are planning for return to school in just over a month.

Othman Laraki

othman

1/ As COVID-19 cases continue to surge, a missing testing metric can help explain the ineffectiveness of our containment efforts. The public discussion around testing has been relating to testing

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

How increasing #COVID19 cases overwhelm contact tracing (CT) & lead to runaway/accelerating epidemics. Also, how delays make CT ~useless.(bonus: how heterogeneity can lead to highly variable timing of epidemics)New paper

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.https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/info

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

Should guidelines be evidence-based?The PCR test works by duplicating the genetic material in a sample to a point where a specific genetic sequence is detected. Ct is the cycle threshold.

Alexander Bloom

AlexBloomEdu

Last week, I wrote about the four trends driving universities to rethink their plans for fall. The issues #MLB is having with the #Marlins put the challenge for universities into

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

With vaccination campaigns underway around the world, governments everywhere are about to face the same ethical dilemma:How to deal with people who’ve completed their immunisation programhttps://trib.al/yf2HQXo The pressure to give

Gabriel Bosslet

gbosslet

There is chatter about this study in @nature that "disproves" asymptomatic spread- ergo, lockdowns were unneeded.Let's unpack this because I think this is a blatant misinterpretation of this amazing study.https://go.nature.com

Whitney R. Robinson

WhitneyEpi

Key background 1: Because of limited supplies of #COVID19 vaccine, a federal advisory board making recommendations about the order in which people should get vaccinated (don’t get distracted: these recs

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

COVID Update November 1: When we lose someone to COVID there are things to remember. 1/ We have lost 230,000 people in the US to COVID, likely more, and it’s

Whitney R. Robinson

WhitneyEpi

OK, bc of Stanford Med #COVID19 vaccine algorithm fiasco & N@te Silver’s recent tweet re: vaccine priority guidelines, I have to talk about one of my favorite topics! I even

Xihong Lin

XihongLin

Our paper “Reconstruction of full transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in Wuhan” is online in Nature. We showed two key features of COVID: High transmissibility (R0=3.5) & high covertness(up to 87%

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Children & #COVID19—UK SAGE expert report speaks for itself. Kids more likely to bring the virus into household than aged 17+Young people 2-16 more likely to be first case

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