#Infection

Melinda Wenner Moyer

lindy2350

I agree. There's no question the Covid-19 vaccines will save many, many lives and are key to getting us out of the pandemic. But I think it's dangerous to speak

Stian Westlake

stianwestlake

Covid testing is big news right now: with a mass testing pilot starting in Liverpool, Boots announcing rapid test plans, and places like universities testing staff and students.Here’s a thread

Jeremy Hunt

Jeremy_Hunt

Time to act: thread on why we need to close schools, borders, and ban all household mixing RIGHT AWAY. To those arguing winter is always like this in the NHS:

Dr Eric Levi, FRACS

DrEricLevi

Back in July, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia had over 700 positive cases a day. In the last 16 consecutive days we have had zero cases. The job is not done but

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

Misleading paper is being promoted as showing that transmission in schools is unlikely and children are less susceptible to #COVID19. Data presented show opposite - equal attack rate in all

Another Angry Woman

stavvers

Ending bubbles is a drop in the ocean when call centres, a room full of people talking, are open.https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1348202459064360961 An effective "stricter lockdown" is one which aggressively enforces workpl

PLC

Humble_Analysis

There are 12 US states, plus DC, which have an all-cause mortality z-score in excess of the threshold value of 5 thus far in 2020. Those states exhibit the common

John Drury

ProfJohnDrury

1/6Short thread on relationship between rising infections/new variant, public behaviour, and policy announcementstldr: Public behaviour really matters in mitigating infection spread; but it's not only behaviour that matters, since behav

TheAnalyst

ffforward

[Thread] My takes on the incident with @SubwayUK links to #TrickBot malware. By now it's pretty clear that at the least Subways @CampaignMonitor account was breached. This account was already

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

After a ~2 month plateau from mid-Nov to mid-Jan, the US #COVID19 epidemic has undergone a steady week after week decline and is now back to daily case counts last

The People's Oracle

PeoplesOracle

JANUARY 12, 2020 BY DAYNA LYNN NUCKOLLS2020 Forecast There is a time and a season for all things. 2019 in part and the whole of 2020 is a bridge between

Anthony Macali 🏠

migga

As part of @oz_f comprehensive piece on contact tracing, I did some data analysis on VIC and NSW case at the beginning of their respective '2nd waves'To measure exactly when

Jose-Luis Jimenez

jljcolorado

1/ On the need for a **true multidisciplinary approach** to aerosol & droplet transmission (aka “the Godzilla thread”) 2/ This thread is offered constructively to point out a problem &

David Fisman

DFisman

Excellent to see new Canadian seroprevalence estimates from @CANBloodServ https://nationalpost.com/news/only-1-5-per-cent-of-canadians-report-covid-19-antibody-immunity-in-second-pandemic-wave-study I think there are some issues with how th

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Yesterday, I pretended to be a normal infectious disease reporter for a day and wrote about an interesting new preprint: the first report of leprosy in wild chimpanzees. Quick thread

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

drsanjaygupta

All eyes will be on Tulsa, Oklahoma this weekend as President Trump is set to hold a rally with an expected 19,000 people in attendance. Public health officials including the

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