#Transmission

Nick Judin

nickjudin

My interview with Dr. Paul Byers, state epidemiologist @msdh is live. Remarkable how quickly the flood came in. On Nov. 4, the day I conducted this interview, the seven-day average

Shannon Salisbury

Miz_Salisbury

Just in case long-term lurkers think I've changed gears about the efficacy of e-learning because I'm advocating for remote learning, rest assured, this is not the case. E-learning is still

Eliza Shapiro

elizashapiro

Mayor says parents should make a plan for their kids because schools could close as soon as Monday. The average positivity rate is now 2.8%. Schools close the day after

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

Is re-instituting lockdowns necessary to stop rapidly rising #COVID19 cases globally?Answer: No. But we're failing at 2 other approaches, due to poor messaging, human behavior & limited public health capacity.Deaths

Katarina Braun

KATarinambraun

Preprint Using viral sequencing + some epi data, we show that a majority #SARSCoV2 infections in healthcare workers at our institution occur in the community and can only rarely be

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

THREADData from Birmingham garnered LOTs of negative press about #COVID19 rapid Ag tests The data 1) is very small, 8 positives2) Shows EXACTLY what we expect, Rapid Ag tests detect

Edson

EdsonCGuido

Let's talk about testing.3 million in total were conducted in the Philippines since the pandemic began. But is that enough?A thread. From around 13k per day in June, testing doubled

Mark Harper

Mark_J_Harper

Sad day. Lockdowns have failed in slowing the transmission of Covid. Now Govt expects people to sacrifice sharing Xmas with family & friends, just a few days after promising the

Megan O'Driscoll

meganodris

Our analysis on age-specific mortality and immunity patterns of SARS-CoV-2 has now been published @nature. We look at COVID-19 death data in 45 countries and 22 serostudies to investigate the

Keegan Connor Tracy

keegolicious

I’ve stayed quiet and apolitical on here because, well, there’s a lot of crazy, but feel compelled to speak about what’s happening in schools, and I respectfully direct this to

Andrew💙Croxford

andrew_croxford

".. while measured neutralising antibody titres generated by vaccination with ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine are lower for the B.1.1.7 lineage, clinical efficacy of the vaccine against symptomatic COVID disease is similar

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

This new mink COVID-19 mutation story, which is making the rounds on Twitter is highly problematic. There are elements of truth in it but the reporting is completely irresponsible.1/https://www.berlingske.dk/nyheder/english-version-mink-cau

The Sharing Scientist

ScienceShared

So, you've all seen the rising cases and hospitalisations, you've seen the local lockdowns, you've seen that social gatherings are reduced to 6, and we are now spiralling towards another

Ryan Hisner

LongDesertTrain

1/ Thanks to help from @Poppendieck & @CorsIAQ, I've used my @AranetIoT CO2 meter to estimate the # of air changes per hour (ACH) in my classroom. CO2 builds up

Jillian Carmichael

ViralCarmichael

Been thinking a lot about the intersection of purity culture and STIs. As a someone who grew up in evangelical purity culture and who also got their PhD studying herpes,

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 115It's been a wild week, with terrible news about new cases, overwhelmed hospitals, and deaths. Plus boatloads of new info on wide-ranging themes. So this’ll

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