#Transmission

Dr. Nahid Bhadelia

BhadeliaMD

Agreed. And also we should start with releasing a standard for masks available to consumers. It’s unconscionable that we have the largest use of PPE by American public in history

Benjy Renton

bhrenton

Morning of December 28, 2019: 1 year ago today, I arrived in China with a group of students on a study abroad program, which would be suspended a month later

On Point

OnPointRadio

Today: Risk distortion is a problem when it comes to public health. How do we understand what the real risks are? What's the right way to communicate risk without overselling

Andrew Rambaut 🦠🧬🌲🔮🤦‍♂️

arambaut

By naming 'a variant' we are flagging it as being of concern even if it probably isn't (relative to other circulating lineages). Back in April proposed a lineage naming system

Alex Usher

AlexUsherHESA

1/ One thing people are finding it difficult to get their heads around in terms of pandemic statistics is the question of transmission statistics. Both "sides" (if you want to

Gift

JGiftmacher

Back on this again... But really, lock down again, including schools, was an inevitability. The NHS has a finite capacity that, thanks to the Tories, is strained even by seasonal

Max Stammnitz

DevilsAdvoMax

Hi Science Twitter!A big shout out to my two fantastic colleagues Young Mi and Kevin, who have just released what is likely the largest tumour phylogeny built to date: the

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. Thread: Model-based mitigation strategies for school reopening. I will start with a disclosure. The work described was done in collaboration with @Color Health and I was paid as a

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

Scientific models vary according to the assumptions made. Compare here the projections for Covid19 deaths under four different epidemiological models (Imperial, LSHTM, Warwick, and Public Health England/Cambridge) and the dynamic

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

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

FAUCI SAYS THE CORONAVIRUS IS AIRBORNE—it’s not official until the Fauci sings. And Dr Fauci has come out strongly: “Bottomline, there’s much more aerosol than we thought”. #COVID19Moreover, #SARSCoV2

all aboard the chuu chuu train

loonacademia

no student is "behind" in a global pandemic.the difference is that poor students/families, as always, are doing everything they can to stay safe while rich students/families have the resources to

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

Martin J Keatings SNP 1 | AFI 2

MartinJKeatings

Royals don't travel alone. They travel with an entourage of advisers & security. If just one person they meet, or one person with them have COVID they've put at risk,

Thomas Christie Williams

Williams_T_C

our study on the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on children now out @ADC_BMJ https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2021/01/14/archdischild-2020-321008many positives, in terms of our findings and how the paper came togetherbut also ra

James Krellenstein

jbkrell

I am a little confused by this @nytimes reporting by @MarcSantoraNYT and @RebeccaDRobbins on the new AZD1222 data. First of all, the claim that this data is the “first” to

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