#Infection

Margherita Stancati 🌸

margheritamvs

The northern city of Bergamo became a symbol of Italy’s Covid-19 tragedy in the spring. Hospitals ran out of beds for patients, and army trucks were deployed to carry coffins

פרופ' אייל שחר

prof_shahar

Sweden: 1)estimates of % infected: spring wave, winter wave (till peak)2)estimated IFR Used an excellent post (Dr. Sebastian Rushworth) about serologyAb frequency stabilized at 10% after spring waveAb frequency 40%

okenia

DkOkenia

COVID, clotting and long-term recovery - some thoughtsthread/ In the early days of the pandemic, clinical focus was (understandably) on acute management and understanding the disease. However, now that we

The Seeker

TheSeeker268

"Scientists – like journalists – should follow evidence until it is disproved, even when it leads into uncomfortable terrain. Anything else is a betrayal of their creed." https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9155487/IAN-BI

o4a

o4aadvocacy

1/9 A thread about Ageism and COVID-19 from @geronsociety @ReframingAging Infographic: https://bit.ly/36GaxtG Even though people 65 & older are at greater risk of hospitalization & death from COVID-19, people of

David Pritchard

drpritch2

Weekly #Ottawa #COVID19 thread.I've been on vacation, so just a few custom graphs.Geography: Gloucester-Southgate, Beacon Hill-Cyrville and Alta Vista were especially high the last 2 weeks; also Bay.Gloucester-Southgate isn't *quite

Anti. 🐘

AntiAll3s

Eine neue Studie aus Italien spricht von 90 % der Fälle, die nach zwei Monaten immer noch mindestens ein #Covid19 Symptome aufweisen.https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/07/two-months-after-infection-covid-19-symptoms-persist/ Sammeln von

Avik Roy

Avik

New: my @WSJ Review cover story on the compelling case for reopening schools, especially for younger children. Children themselves are at extremely low risk of serious illness or death. So

Kashif Sheikh

mksheikh

I know everyone is eager to usher out this year, myself included. But I'll remember it, fondly, for so many reasons, and this picture symbolizes why... We entered the

Governor Jay Inslee

GovInslee

Today is the most dangerous public health day in the last 100 years of our state’s history. A pandemic is raging in Washington. Today, we are taking action to stop

Katherine J. Wu, Ph.D.

KatherineJWu

It's 2021! Time for a crash course in four terms that I often see mixed up when people talk about testing: sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value. These

The Menachery Lab

TheMenacheryLab

Our study examining a furin-cleavage site deletion mutant in #COVID19 is now out @Nature With a short thread (cause who has time to read beyond twitter) (1/6https://go.nature.com/2MnGlfq First, thanks to

Yinon Weiss

yinonw

A short thread about covid herd immunity. First let's look at New York & Sweden. NY wears masks, closed business, closed schools, and mandates social distancing. Sweden did not but

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

Response to the vaccine consultation:Dear Mr Hancock,I have a degree in Biochemistry & Toxicology & a research based PhD in pharmacology. I have spent 32years working in pharmaceutical R&D, mostly

Unnie M

UnnieM2

I have shared this before, but it simply can't be stressed enough - Great Barrington Declaration is so unethical and deranged that even the City of Great Barrington demands to

Nick Mark MD

nickmmark

Meta-analysis of antibiotic prescribing in #COVID19 inpatients finds:-74.6% received antibiotics -8.6% had bacterial co-infection At first glance, this suggests that we’re *way* overprescribing Abx in COVID. But there

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