#Infections

Shane Crotty

profshanecrotty

1/ There are various tweets misinterpreting COVID-19 “pre-existing immunity” and making dangerous claims about herd immunity. Since many of those claims refer to our scientific papers, we will reiterate the

B I S H

BISHSexEd

Just as with sex infections, most cases of COVID-19 either don’t have symptoms or have mild unrecognisable symptoms. And just like most sex infections, you can get and give COVID-19

Danny Boy

Care2much18

The most informative school study from an Irish perspective is probably the large scale study in Belgium.It was conducted by Sciensano (Belgium's National Health Institute) and is arguably the most

Ann Marie Kumfer

AnnKumfer

#medtwitter 1/What are the top three diagnoses of which you automatically skeptical? My top 3 are UTI, cellulitis, and CAP. Before talking more about "UTIs:, I must repeat the mantra:PYURIA

Morgs

honeynvenom

Last night my grandma died alone in the hospital. After a long with cancer, infections and bacterial pneumonia, she is no longer suffering. Her death was not #COVID19 related but

Jamie Woodhouse

JamieWoodhouse

~3.2 million people may now have #COVID19 ~4.7% or 1 in 21. ~10% in LondonAssume: 2,822 dead (hosp +20%); IFR 1%; Adj. days to death ~18So ~282k were infected

Pradheep J. Shanker

Neoavatara

The nuance that @ChrisMurphyCT ignores?Even if this office had stayed open, the Chinese govt prohibited all WHO and CDC scientists to enter Wuhan during this time. This office is meaningless,

Chris Giles

ChrisGiles_

Second, the point of lockdown appears strongly linked to eventual excess deaths. Here, we show the relationship between an estimate of infections on lockdown day and eventual excess deaths9/ As

Tom Moultrie

tomtom_m

As promised: Why we DON’T need ANOTHER South African Covid dashboard that merely re-presents the data in the public domain. (A thread 1/26) i. On top of that, NOT ALL

Mutai DG

MutaiDominic10

solution on full re-opening of Schools- Dr.OmbajoA thread https://mutaidgtheopinionmaker.wordpress.com/2020/10/28/solution-on-full-re-opening-of-schools-dr-ombajo/ It's evidently clear that school full re-opening in the country have be

Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

OtherSociology

The militarised, punitive treatment of racial minorities is one of the most critical points to lift out of Premier Daniel Andrews' press conference today. Race and class have led to

Ben Cowling

bencowling88

Our work on superspreading has just been published https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-1092-0, the preprint was posted a few months ago.https://twitter.com/bencowling88/status/1270549539154309121 Work done with @DillonCAdam @gmleungh

Tyler Black, MD

tylerblack32

A typical seasonal flu kills about 300-600,000 people per year in the world. COVID-19 was at ~300k worldwide in May 15th, and as of today is at ~600k worldwide. In

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

Taking stock of COVID in October - for followers, in particular journalists. My scope is broadly across Europe, with a particular focus in the UK. Context: I am an expert

Vidya

VidyaKrishnan

Jumping in midway through the conference because.. Dr Vinod Paul (NITI Aayog) has made an appearance today! I think we have @nit_set & Kumar Sambhav Srivastava to thank for this.

Vanessa Murray

VanessaQT

(1/4) It’s not enough for Trump to ruin American government, credibility, and our reputation abroad.He has to ruin the credibility of the CDC. People look to the CDC for reliable