#Transmission

THREADWith winter now really getting cold, most of Kabul residents – when coming home from work – would like to switch on their lights and start cooking and heating their
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For months now, the biggest threat of a fresh COVID outbreak in this country has been the virus leaking out of hotel quarantine - and some experts say poor ventilation
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1/ Thread:On request, a quick look at Independent SAGE's A Safe Schools PlanThis is an update on the urgent report on safer schools to take into account the current lockdownhttps://www.independentsage.org/a-safe-schools-policy-for-re-op
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CDC REPORT: young children do contract SARS-CoV-2 and spread it to their households. Study of three Salt Lake City childcare facilities uncovered 12 children who acquired the virus and passed
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We need to give people the right *intuition* on how this pathogen transmits—including its airborne spread—along with the rules. The cut-offs (6 feet etc.) aren't binary and the mitigations stack
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This is a very major concern. Why reducing community transmission is so important. The more virus circulating, under immune pressure, the more likely it is to mutate, evolve and change.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/18/exclusive-b
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A few points about the huge ice storm outage that's wrapping up today. Keep in mind I don't speak for anyone but myself, but I am perhaps unusually knowledgeable about
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HOW RISKY IS A TRAIN JOURNEY? Preliminary research by @RSSB_rail suggests chance of getting COVID-19 from a train journey is around 1 in 11,000. That's without factoring in face coverings.
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1/NIH Study: COVID-19 severity could depend on route of infection: Infection through inhaling #Airborne virus could lead to more severe disease than infection from fomites (contact w/ contaminated objects.) To
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#Covid19 If you’re new to understanding #airborne virus transmission, here’s some background @zeynep https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/why-arent-we-talking-more-about-airborne-transmission/614737/ ..& a really clear
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#COVID19ireland: 1620 cases; 12 deathsPrevious Thursdays:24/12: 92217/12: 48410/12: 31003/12: 18326/11: 3355-day average: 1278.67-day average: 1244.9(Previous 7 days: 775.7)14-day cases/100k: 296.7(7 days ago: 166.0)In hospital: 490In ICU:
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dralex; The reported incidence of seasonal influenza has been uncharacteristically low in the southern hemisphere so far. Coinfection with multiple respiratory viruses is possible. The reason for this is unclear.
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A brief summary of the very precarious situation we are in now, and why we have a very narrow window to act in the UK. If we don't act now,
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1) In an indirect indicator Montreal's young adult population is driving the #COVID19 resurgence, authorities are observing a spike in the number of sexually transmitted infections since Quebec reopened in
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239 Experts alert the World Health Organization: The Coronavirus Is Airbornehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/health/239-experts-with-1-big-claim-the-coronavirus-is-airborne.html?smid=tw-share The World Health Organization has long held th
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These studies are heavily flawed, and are don't include any of the larger, and less biased studies that contradict this view. There are ample studies with larger sample sizes, including
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