#Transmission

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

I haven't even gone to bed last night yet and today's bullshit coronavirus story is already here, courtesy of @pbleic.Elsevier's journal _Medical Hypotheses_ brings us a paper entitled "The use

Tom Inglesby

T_Inglesby

To greatly lower risks of easing social distancing in US in time ahead, states will need to build highly capable pub health case management. @JHSPH_CHS & @ASTHO just released new

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽

meganranney

Here's a short list of things we do and don't yet know about #COVID19. 1. We don't yet know the true case fatality rate. (E.g.: if you catch it, how

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

Reading the transcript of Whitty/Vallance lecture yesterday. I quote: “so about eight per cent, so 3 million or so people, may have been infected and have antibodies. It means that

alex hayes

alexpghayes

a tweetorial on #broom and linear models with categorical features in #rstats based on a super common confusion and related feature request we getsuppose you estimate a linear regression where

Hardcore for Nerds

HC4N

This is an intriguing chart, given the news reports I see the most of - *per capita* Covid-19 deaths in Ireland are very close to, or tracking slightly above, those

CMO Maharashtra

CMOMaharashtra

CM Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray’s address to the State today; I decided that instead of giving a free run to rumours and speculations after today’s video-conference with the Hon’ble PM, it

Victor Leung

VicLeungIDdoc

1/ Proposing a constructive disruptive approach to empowering community testing for COVID-19. @DrMikeRyan talked about engaging the community and creating change through disruption.https://twitter.com/freespiritus/status/1390818532506497025

Prof Nick Cowern

NickCowern

1/ Stunning insights from the NHS symptom-reporting app. It shows a dramatic decrease in live symptomatic cases, starting on 1st April, just 8 days after the UK lockdown began. 2/

Andrew Coyne

acoyne

“Trudeau, along with the health minister and other federal ministers, repeat often that they are working closely with the WHO, following its advice.There are a growing number of voices who

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

Masks work. I’d say they are the single most important line of defense against COVID at present. #WearAMask @DrEricDing has compiled a great evidence review in this thread.https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1317694942479876097 If

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

Let's review: 1/ We have very little idea what positive tests mean (we're over 300,000, but they rise more or less linearly with the number we conduct - does that

Tim Wise

timjacobwise

1/ THREAD about new evidence C19 may have been spreading in the U.S. longer than believed and what it means (and doesn't mean) for transmission, fatality and what should happen

Sarah Barker

mssfax

The Independent SAGE report 3 was released yesterday on the opening of schools. Here's a link: https://twitter.com/IndependentSage/status/1265977278317592582?s=20 and here's a little thread if you want a TL:DR report: 1/n -No

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

How many COVID-19 cases have countries been detecting relative to testing effort? Here's plot of total number of reported tests per confirmed case over time - for Germany, Italy, Japan,

steven tan

steventan17

Super excited to share that my paper is out on Science Advances! Big thanks to @CaylaMMiller and the @Dunn_Lab, as well as collaborators from @DavidOddeLab!Check it out here:https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/20/eaax0317 If you