#Infected

THREAD update on variants:Today PHE released more variant data (& split the B1617 ("Indian") variant into 3 subtypes).Big increase with 400 overall cases in UK - closing in on B1351
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A primer (journalists, part written for you) on false positives and why you should (a) know about them but (b) feel confident the system does the right thing for them
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Let's talk about Vaccines.Still seeing a lot of confusion going around about the Mechanism of vaccines in use. I will attempt to explain it as simply as possible.Please read, and
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After having over three months to prepare, the government test & trace strategy appears really poorly thought out. Here's a thread about the gaps between a successful test, trace &
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A #COVID19 battle story. This week #COVID19 became very real. This virus that has been passed all over the globe and has afflicted more than 1 million people has now
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Covid-19 a long thread. Facts speak for themselves. Lifted from youtube.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZ-DW5LVCsFact: the mainstream scientific establishment has determined that 85% of cases remain undetected and with minimal or no symptoms. How
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1/ Last night, I spent some quality time with the Apple docs on the new contact tracing protocol and APIs they and Google are preparing.I'm quite optimistic about this effort.
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Officials find slender rays of hope in hospital statistics as the coronavirus pandemic claims *another* 716 New Yorkers in Gotham alone in just one day. City death toll now sits
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1/ Arguments about data, confidentiality, consent and masks.Interesting couple of days.Data on VOC were released later than usual, B1.617.2 outbreaks are occuring in education settings as government seems set
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1/ Do we make sure virus activity is low before reopening?These policy experts say it's fundamental to #OpenSafely That seems so obvious you may ask "who'd disagree? what's the alternative?"I
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A lot of attention has been focused on studies using chloroquine and other drugs to treat #covid19 patients. But there are also numerous trials that are aiming to use these
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Now seems like a good to talk about this...My husband & I have had COVID19.But we don't count in the official numbers. And I'm willing to bet at least 75%
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Had quite a bit of backlash to our paper, published last week, which set out 10 streams of evidence supporting predominance of AIRBORNE spread of SARS-CoV-2. I respond to some
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America it's time to wake the hell up. You really need to be out there ignoring and resisting these unconstitutional violations of your first amendment rights, second amendment rights, the
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A thread. Is @NicolaSturgeon as shiny and clean on COVID-19 as she's now trying to make out? From her tone of disdain towards @BorisJohnson and his new slogan you'd be
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thread of why it bugs me that ppl are suggesting danganronpa to ranboo (specifically the offensive tropes and stereotypes in the franchise's writing) for the record: i was a danganronpa
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