#Transmission

Jonathan Engler 😀

jengleruk

Some thoughts on vaccines for SARSCOV2.So, trials for the current vaccine candidates would appear to have been designed to detect a reduction in symptoms only, as summarised here:https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2020/09/23/covi

Professor Philip Nolan

President_MU

If we can only have 6 people in our houses, how can we have 30 children in a classroom? It’s a reasonable question. But it’s not a contradiction; in fact,

Matthew Hodson

Matthew_Hodson

94% of people living with HIV in the UK have been diagnosed.98% are on treatment and 97% of those are undetectable.This means that 89% of all people living with HIV

Courtney Milan 🦖

courtneymilan

As Nate Silver discourse intensifies, I just wanna remind people that Richard Epstein, non-epidemiologist, also made the argument that his credential was being smart and reading things, and he thought

Professor Philip Nolan

President_MU

While it’s difficult to show cause and effect, there is a clear pattern over time in the nature of cases and outbreaks in the second wave in Ireland. It suggests

Vinay Prasad MD MPH

VPrasadMDMPH

NC schools experience:11 districts data; ~100k in person schoolAug to Oct 2020NC had 1-2 cases per 1k pop (that's brisk)733 community acq casesIf schools' transmission mirrored the stateExpected 800+ cases

Tara K

tarak_cdn

In response to Dr. Reka Gustafson on @TheCurrentCBC, schools absolutely are having transmission, and as long as you refuse to acknowledge & test for asymptomatic spread, BC will never get

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Good and bad news about the Novavax protein subunit vaccine. 90% efficacy in the UK, but only ~50% in South Africa, largely because of the B.1.351 variant. Hopeful news too:

Dr. Lynora Saxinger 🇨🇦

AntibioticDoc

Why is COVID so bloody good at spreading? The lack of specific immunity because it's new is obvious, droplets, many really are going after aerosol spread as the smoking gun-

Mac n’ Chise 🧬🧫🦠

sailorrooscout

Want to get back to normal? Get vaccinated when you can. The purpose of vaccination is to bring the severity level of this virus down to the level of a

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

We previously inferred that none of the recurrent mutations observed in #SARSCoV2 is associated with higher transmission using the first ~47k genomes. Does N501Y, widely credited as the driver of

Dr Pieter Peach

DrPieterPeach

It’s challenging finding the signal through the noise when looking for evidence around respiratory protection in reducing transmission risk for SARS-CoV-2. There are many confounding variables related to the fact

Simon Mahan

SimonMahan

While debate rages over blackout causes (fossil fuels? market design?) few have pointed out transmission expansion planning failures. @aripescoe published this great paper (in January!) explaining why major utilities are

Jose-Luis Jimenez

jljcolorado

1/ Science: extensive genomic analyses in Boston show the importance of superspreading"More than 120 introductions of SARS-CoV-2 into Boston, only a few responsible for most local transmission: 29% of intros

Jan

GeodanNew

1) Susan Michie. Member of rhe COMMUNIST Party. Advisor to Boris Johnson. She is a BEHAVIOURAL PSYCHOLOGIST, NOT a medical Doctor. They are using us as Lab Rats.https://twitter.com/richardwjones/status/1295610974435672065 2) Ive

joseph osmundson (all pronouns)

reluctantlyjoe

Vaccine thread : I’ve been getting some questions about what a Moderna or Pfizer vaccine would mean for QUARANPOD or social distancing rules. While these vaccines protect against COVID disease

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