#Outbreaks

Joshua Loftus

joftius

#COVID19 hospital admissions in London seem like they're continuing to fallI was skeptical about the new variant story early on, here's a short thread in chronological order of things I

Peter Harling

PeterHarling

THREAD Infectious diseases have long shaped our culture—in ways you can trace through mentions of a disease in our literature. Here we see declining references to the plague in English

Miguel Hernán

_MiguelHernan

1/ Estimating the infection fatality risk (IFR) of #SARSCoV2 is hard.Our estimates from Spain's #ENECOVID (just published):Men: 1.1% to 1.4%Women: 0.58% to 0.77%After age 80Men: 12% to 16%Women: 4.6% to

Adam Hamdy

adamhamdy

1. I understand the economic pressure, but believe the UK government is opening up too soon. Lives will be lost as a result. It now falls to us to make

Brent Thoma

Brent_Thoma

An abridged thread on #COVIDsk written by my wonderful wife on FB (she doesn't tweet):"I have seen so many posts from my colleagues begging the public to understand what is

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) More than three months into the #pandemic, authorities in Montreal are now pursuing what appears to be a dicey strategy: easing up on #COVID19 testing while at the same

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 114Medical Grand Rounds returns today: @YouTube here https://tinyurl.com/y99b6csl We cover the state of the pandemic, opening the schools, and the San Quentin prison outbreak. My

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

After the great recession, the American economy rebounded faster and stronger than the euro zone.But as both emerge from the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the tables seem to

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

A thread of some of the misconceptions that fed the COVID hysteria. 1/ Little reporting of the sense of scale, that flu and seasonal influenza-like infections (i.e., colds) are massive

PLC

Humble_Analysis

There are 12 US states, plus DC, which have an all-cause mortality z-score in excess of the threshold value of 5 thus far in 2020. Those states exhibit the common

Lonni Besançon

lonnibesancon

1. It's time for the weekly "data from Sweden" thread.This week 4 main things.A. Increase in the number of reportsB. Deaths still being reporting back to mid-decemberC. Comparing to France?D.

Spencer Cox

SpencerJCox

Ok friends, we need to have a discussion about how to avoid spreading Covid this holiday weekend. We had surges after Memorial Day and July 4th and we have to

Nathan Lane

VetMe2020

Want to know about the real #ElectionFraud the MSM is not talking about?Info not getting the coverage it should?Info that indicates the Dems actually won the Senate?#TXElectionFraud#TXCruzBetoRunoff @BetoORourke @TheDemCoalition @maddow

Lindsay Wiley

ProfLWiley

It looks like press outlets are picking up Fauci’s comments on MSNBC yesterday saying we won’t be able to “approach some form of normality” until fall 2021. Eg, this from

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

NEW on Rapid Tests!Exceptional data that should help path to at-home highly accurate rapid testsIn over 860 samples tested w ⁦@AbbottNews⁩ BinaxNOW, only ONE was falsely positive! The Specificity was

Adam Dean

AdamDean34

New in @Health_Affairs: Can labor unions reduce COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes? @atheendar @simkimmel and I find that unions were associated with a 30% relative decrease in COVID-19 mortality rates

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