#Transmission

Meghan Azad, PhD

MeghanAzad

Great journal club by @basbees on this paper by @ShikaRamanan et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.04.030Multiple results: 1/n1) Cross-fostering experiments (did I mention I these?!) show immune phenotype is vertically transferred

John Roberts

JohnGRoberts

Interesting listening to the @IndependentSage briefing on schools yesterday. They highlighted how cases of Covid-19 in primary school have increased sharply. Story here & thread belowhttps://www.tes.com/news/coronavirus-schools-sharp-ri

Michael Thomas Cucek

MichaelTCucek

#JapanPolitics - the degree of similarity between the Abe Administration's fight against #Covid_19 and the Johnson Administration's fight in Vietnam is approaching 1:1https://twitter.com/HirokoTabuchi/status/1245678017957036033 At the beginni

Pavel Miller

PVMill

Offshore wind will provide the backbone of the UK’s net zero electricity system. It needs to get from 8GW today to 40GW by 2030. That’s achievable but challenging. That’s why

Adam Hamdy

adamhamdy

1. I've spent weeks, now months, warning about the #COVID19 pandemic. We're in exactly the situation I was desperate for us to avoid. The virus is freely spreading in the

Luke Field 🌃🦉

LukePField

#COVID19Ireland update, 13 April:10,647 (+992) total cases. This figure includes the results from tests outsourced to Germany.Sadly, 31 more people diagnosed with coronavirus have died. Total deaths of those with

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. Can we restart the economy with a two-day work week?A short thread about the new #COVID19 proposal from a group of top systems biologists: https://medium.com/@urialonw/containing-sars-cov-2-with-a-two-day-workweek-fbdea4030d30It's great to hav

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

NEW! research shows rapid antigen tests can work in a real world setting - with asymptomatic and symptomatic people. The rapid "paper-strip" antigen test called the BinaxNOW detected >90% of

(((Justin Goldner)))

JusBass

A lot of friends are sharing conspiracy-minded thinking today, so I just wanted to lovingly discuss the rational argument for how Trump’s diagnosis is highly predictable. (1/x) *** 4 primary

Whitney R. Robinson

WhitneyEpi

One reason that my fairly wealthy college town school system chose virtual learning for the district for the whole semester is that parent surveys showed a higher proportion of Black

Jim Dickinson

jim_dickinson

I've been thinking a lot this week about normal accidents, the millennium bug, the respective roles of optimism and pessimism and the importance of place. The last one in particular

Karam Bales

karamballes

1/ Thread: Don't mean to join the tin foil hat brigade but I have concerns the rate of infections in schools is being suppressed from public knowledge.In March the government

Ryan Davis

MicroLevitator

As an aerosol scientist with expertise in the niche sub-field of droplet fragmentation, I’ve been meaning to provide some commentary on this article for a while. What does it tell

David Fisman

DFisman

Just some back of the envelope math for y'all on TEST SENSITIVITY for PCR and covid "rule out". This is important when deciding whether or not PPE are needed for

P George MD

PGeorgeMD

Listened to Dr. Anthony Fauci give the #keynote at #CHEST2020 - here are a couple synopsis Tweets from his session. @accpchest He started out reminding us that SARS-CoV2 is very

SlideRuleEyes📏

SlideRuleEyes

To reiterate: $1.4k or $2k being promised from the Biden admin is IRRELEVANT, because it's one check, and it's far from enough to cover for the damage that has been