#Respiratory

Kevin McKernan 🙂

Kevin_McKernan

OK Koch heads... bring your hurt.I’m glad you folks exist as we need people questioning everything.However, I have found the “virus doesn’t exist” arguments unconvincing. The virus isn’t the only

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽

meganranney

Today I read @paulmromer thread - particularly the part about schools (I recommend it!). And we need to talk about #SchoolReopening, from a scientific perspective. So here goes, with thanks

Spencer Fox

FoxandtheFlu

Remember the preprint that suggested that #covid19 herd immunity thresholds (HITs) were around 6-20% across Europe, and was part of the evidence used to justify the Great Barrington Declaration? @meyerslab

Betsy H

MizBetsyH

OK, that's IT. I'm done. All the people whining about #rights & #freedom & #liberty & how the stay-at-home orders & other restrictions are #Unconstitutional, gather 'round because your friendly,

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

Seeing papers make the rounds that the herd immunity threshold may be much lower than the rough approximation 1-1/R0. Maybe, but let's slow down a minute.#1. There is still way

Alasdair Munro

apsmunro

People can't stop talking about schools and #COVID19 Here's a thread on school transmission studies!Summary:- If prevalence high in the community, it will be high in schools and some will

Robert Dickson

robertpdickson

[thread] The paradox of treating ARDS is this: because we don't have a drug to reverse lung injury, we provide supportive care with two therapies - oxygen and mechanical ventilation

National Geographic

NatGeo

There is a bit of misinfo going around that the coronavirus will weaken over time.No one knows for sure if that's true, as UW biologist @CT_Bergstrom has explainedhttps://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1281388738895949825 I suspect

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

A very small sample size, but Dr. MacCannell shows 2 important findings here: 1. B.1.1.7 variant may not be very common in the US and 2. PCR is not a

Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra

magarmtis

The @nytimes piece on faculty reluctance to return to campus is misleading and magnifies an already existing problem in the conversation. 1/x What is being offered by universities seeking to

Shraddha Pai

spaiglass

This just out: @AmyTanMD and I make the case that by not mandating masks for K-12 children in schools, we are playing Russian roulette with the health of our children,

david oliver

mancunianmedic

A short thread about hospital bed pressuresThis may surprise some people outside the healthcare bubble but for a population of c 60 million, England (pre-pandemic) only had just over 100,000

JPM Science #BLM Anti-racism

yeipijotape

Our team studied the distribution of SARS-CoV-2 #RNA signal in a quarantine home with 2 #COVID19+ occupants. Viral transmissions can occur in homes where most people quarantine while recovering. Here

Bloom Lab

jbloom_lab

We mapped how all mutations to #SARSCoV2 receptor-binding domain (RBD) affect recognition by convalescent polyclonal human sera (https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.31.425021v1).Among implications: E484K (South African lineage) worr

Dr Michelle Kelly-Irving

shell_ki

The difficult choice of keeping schools open or not during lockdown is a social inequality & child welfare issue affecting life course trajectories in wellbeingA lot is at stake, so

Dan Larremore

DanLarremore

Updated preprint: Model-informed COVID-19 vaccine prioritization strategies by age and serostatus. Smart suggestions from formal/informal review mean that the paper still asks how demographics, contacts, vax efficacy, & seroprevalence a

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