#Transmission

Kevin Wilson

WilsonKM2

I know this is old, but I feel like I always have to say it whenever there's an outbreak in the region.Our case timelines look a bit different than other

Muge Cevik

mugecevik

A lot of discussion recently about transmission dynamics, most of which are extrapolated from viral loads & estimates. What does contact tracing/community testing data tell us about actual probability of

Joe Pike

joepike

BREAK: Serious warning from scientists in new dump of SAGE docs. From 14 Oct:-In England, infection & hospital admission levels breaching Reasonable Worst Case planning scenario. -Daily deaths now at

Hillel Neuer

HillelNeuer

1/ SHAME: Asked by @yvonne_tg @thepulse_rthk about #Taiwan's participation in the U.N.'s World Health Organization, its official Bruce Aylward says "I can't...could't hear"; then hangs up; and then when called

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kcrvl

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Dr. Robin Mazumder (he/him)

RobinMazumder

"What public-health and well-being policies can help alleviate some of the extraordinary stressors that urbanites are feeling right now? It is our public green spaces, our parks, botanical gardens and

Taylor Nichols, MD

tnicholsmd

UPDATED DATA:New modeling suggests that California's peak will now be on April 13th, and with dramatically lower numbers thanks to significantly flattening of the curve and reducing transmission.https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-ame

Matthew Noah Smith

MattNoahSmith

Excellent article by @zeynep on dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 spread. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k-overlooked-variable-driving-pandemic/616548/It argues that pandemic is driven by superspreaders, and so what is required are

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

Wear a Mask! Just published in Nature Medicine: Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks: "Our results indicate that surgical face masks could prevent transmission of

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

This is a very provocative paper, but it's missing several key details. 1) We still have no idea how many virions are needed to lead to infection. Thus, even if

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

I can’t recall feeling quite this combination of sheer impotence and white rage as I do right now. NO ONE who has the slightest grasp of clinical immunology can possibly

David Thunder

davidjthunder

--EXAGGERATED & UNFOUNDED COVID FEARS: A THREAD—One of the biggest drivers of compliance with Covid measures is FEAR - fear of contagion, disease, death, police, social disapproval. Below, I critically

Katherine J. Wu, Ph.D.

KatherineJWu

In the leadup to the holidays, maybe we can start talking about our coronavirus tests in a slightly different way.If you do not test positive for the coronavirus, consider that

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Did you know that *study after study* finds most people don't seem to transmit COVID at all? That a small percent is responsible for almost all infections? That R is

AG

AGHamilton29

WHO parroted Chinese propaganda about no human to human transmission in mid-January, then they actively intervened against travel restrictions after, and then promoted Chinese false claims about cases. They are

LFC

goldencaskcap

So this was the so-called “warning about human to human transmissions” Taiwan sent to WHO on December 31...strong Hindsight Capital energy there with coronavirus diplomacy https://twitter.com/mofa_taiwan/status/1248871736914767872 You put patients in