#Transmission

sandygrains

sandygrains

People are extrapolating data and making graphs left, right, and center about how this disease should or should not spread, how we are or are not testing enough, whether the

Dr. Guendouzi ( The Cerebral Assassin )

fimiletoks

Let me try and shed more light on the issue of #COVID19 testing. Each country has its own protocol - case prevention, surveillance and case definition. There is no competition

Miles Howard

MilesPerHoward

Seriously. Who? We have a month.https://twitter.com/LindseyBoylan/status/1276910911220002816 A pattern in America’s pandemic politics that’s getting ugly:HEALTH AND ECONOMICS EXPERTS: We must take these emergency measures, or people wil

Katarina Braun

KATarinambraun

New preprint We deep seq’d #SARSCoV2 and found within-host diversity is limited and rarely transmitted & transmission bottlenecks are narrow → slows the pace of #VOC emergence in *acute*

Dan Gardner

dgardner

Classic first-order thinking: Don't want people getting together? Close parks, even if risk is tiny. But if people have nothing else, what will they do in place of going to

Matthew Bonds

MatthewBonds3

There is broad misunderstanding of how to interpret and best use models. Infectious disease models a la @neil_ferguson are best interpreted as providing a picture of what happens if we

G Raghuram

UntergrundmannG

It's not that the @WHO did anything commendable, but the #cluelessness of those #idiot twitterati who've decided to signal their "IAmVerySmart"-ness dumping on WHO - certainly needs to be called

Stephanie Tait

StephTaitWrites

We really REALLY need to talk about this study. Because it’s kind of a big deal.https://abcnews.go.com/Health/study-shows-covid-19-case-rates-schools-higher/story?id=77193309&fbclid=IwAR2bfGXie4toX-9IA1Zd0XU4Lvp2D1iPlurMvf70FP03t8-lRJ

Joris Meys

JorisMeys

COVID is characterized by clusters, rather than sustained transmission like e.g. flu. This determines variability in numbers (high) and actions we should take (early and decisive).A short thread on the

richard horton

richardhorton1

Today the UK Prime Minister returns to work. His first task is not to decide when to end the lockdown. Instead, it must be to manage public expectations about the

Wong Joon Ian

joonian

Wow this is incredible and important reporting by Reutershttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-path-speci-idUSKBN21P1VF At the end, Edmunds the Ebola expert at the London School, says we should certainly expect tens of thousan

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Some Great news!!Terrific news from ⁦@AbbottNews⁩ and a MASSIVE step forward towards widescale cheap, simple, rapid tests. This is the type of test that not only will diagnose ppl -

Alasdair Munro

apsmunro

OK I'm busy trying to catch up with what I've missed on #COVID19 in children, which looks like a lot!People seem to be making a big deal out of some

Brandon Ambrosino

BrandonAmbro

I like taking selfies w/ friends. Most selfies taken over the last few months show us wearing masks. The interesting thing is that we don’t always have the masks on

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO

Media briefing on #COVID19 with @DrTedros https://www.pscp.tv/w/ceRUkzI2MTAyMHwxbW5HZWx3RGtMUktYPph6NB8jFMdci3W0vh3ETqpvnRRdkS7tyAUOyI5dJsA= "Although people of all walks of life are affected by #COVID19, the world’s poorest and most

Deirdre Gilhawley

DeeGilhawley

The entire Primary Schools reopening plan hangs on one sentence (p26): "Remember that the virus is spread by droplets and is not airborne so physicalseparation is enough to reduce the