#Transmission

Sinead Donohue

sinead_donohue

1. There is an understandable lack of awareness of #publichealth & #contacttracingContact tracing is NOT new. It's a tool that's been around for centuries. A small PART of what public

Dr Ronan Glynn

ronan_glynn

There has very understandably been a particular focus on Dublin over the past few days. However, most other counties are also seeing increasing numbers of cases of #COVID19. Three in

Helen Laird

Helenlaird

Personal covid & track and trace experience a thread. I started coughing on Saturday morning. Swab booked via government website test that afternoon. Pretty impressed with speed of test. Isolated

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

How long are you infectious for SARS-COV-2/#COVID19? This is a huge question with enormous implications. Data have been limited so far but putting pieces together from several sources starts to

Jake Dunning

OutbreakJake

I've also been asked about this. Farting is not thought to be a way in which COVID-19 is spread. Certain medical procedures pose a genuine risk of creating infectious aerosols

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

This article by @USATODAY misleadingly states that there are "8 strains of coronavirus" circulating. Because of this our @nextstrain inbox is today full of questions like "if you get one

Chris Hayes

chrislhayes

This piece from @rmc031 about school safety amidst Covid is a really worthwhile read. It pumps the breaks on the level of certainty we have that "the science says" in-person

Mx. Amadi

amaditalks

We've been operating under a massive, fundamental misunderstanding & the people who recognized it didn't correct us because it was to their benefit that we continue to misunderstand.The economy isn't

Calla Wahlquist

callapilla

PM Scott Morrison reiterates that fewer than 10% of Covid-19 cases in Australia are from community transmission. The daily growth rate is now "just a few percentage points per day.""This

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA

celinegounder

1/ This week has been one of the DARKEST in American public health. First, @HHSGov & @US_FDA misrepresented the data on convalescent plasma & granted Emergency Use Authorization. Then @CDCgov

Caitlin Rivers, PhD

cmyeaton

I'm seeing unconfirmed reports of a few community acquired cases in the US. Again, this is a function of testing - it is not a live feed of transmission. I

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

The WHO just updated its page on how COVID-19 transmits. Those few sentences on aerosols represent one of the most crucial scientific advances of the pandemic. My NYT piece on

Benjamin Meyer

BenjaminMeyer85

1. Since there was a huge discussion about T-cell mediated immunity following the Lancet comment on seroprevalence by @EckerleIsabella and me, I'd like to share my thoughts on this in

Jane McManus

janesports

Coronavirus outbreak at a tennis exhibition with limited players and a region with no covid. How are sports possible in a nation that has no grip on the virus? By

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

This graph has been making the rounds today on the effect of masks at reducing #SARSCoV2 #HCoV19 #COVID19 #coronavirus transmission. There's a lot more going on here than mask/no mask

Branko Marcetic

BMarchetich

Leading scientists agree the lab conspiracy theory about coronavirus is ridiculous, and point to the simpler, more horrifying explanation that seems pretty much consensus: human destruction of animal ecosystems is