#Prevalence

We are seeing cases going up in several places in Europe and theories about why hospitalisation sand deaths are not (yet) being seen in the same numbers as in March.If
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If @DrTomFrieden tweeted once an hour for every US citizen who died from COVID, it would take 33 years to finish tweeting.If he tweeted once per hour for every *new*
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Huxley’s Brave New World is more reflective of the ills of our society today than Orwell’s 1984 (thread) Brave New World features a society where everyone can, and is encourage
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1/ According to the ONS prevalence survey, symptoms of the 'new' B.1.1.7 #COVID19 variant don't seem massively different to the 'old' variant. Cough, sore throat, fatigue & muscle ache a
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yesterday, i posted this thread about the suggestive timing on the rise in US hospitalizations vs protests.the biggest pushback, as expected, was "but NYC had protests and no spike."i think
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Is Covid really being spread significantly in and by schools? Thread The decision by the government to relay the school return for secondary pupils by a week suggests ministers now
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(1/17)Today’s surprise billing fix is a huge win for consumers!As of 1/1/2022, it will be illegal nationwide for an out-of-network provider to surprise bill a patient for more than their
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Up to 100 UK children a week hospitalised with rare post-Covid disease12-15 a day since early January.Evelina hospital records showed that 60% of the 107 cases of PIMS they had
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1. In trying to understand the extent of the CDC whistleblower reports I did some reading. One of the top hits on Google is actually an old CDC Whistleblower report
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New piece on subclinical TB in @ATSBlueEditor by the thoughtful @emilyakendall and @soustha - ahead-of-print paywall (working on it), so here's a quick thread, using figures presented elsewhere.Many of these
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1/ Quoting“Dramatic drop in Covid cases gives India hope of return to normal lifeSwimming pools, cinemas and theatres to be allowed to operate at full capacity from 1 Feb“Cases have
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“The vaccine has been developed too quickly and is unsafe” Here are some things you should know about why the #COVID19 #vaccine has got here so fast and where huge
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Tim Farron doesn't appear to be critical of County Council and of Colin Cox as the conservative MPs seem to be...The situation was triggered by the rates of cases, the
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Preprint: COVID-19 screening and surveillance are critical, but molecular tests haven't come close to meeting needs, and temperature checks fail. We modeled the epidemiological impacts of using loss of smell
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2020 is not over yet!- a new strain of covid was discovered in the UK, named VUI-2020/12/01- up to 70% more transmissible- the severity of measures has to go up
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Good update on pooled testing; dreadful headline.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/health/coronavirus-pool-te.html The thing is, pooled testing *is* working in many places, as the story clearly explains. The story addresses how pooled tes
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