#Transmission

Ammar Rashid ☭🌹

AmmarRashidT

Have been thinking a lot about the kind of behavior change communication strategy the government needs to employ to contain the spread of #CoronavirusinPakistan so here are some ideas for

Lauren Dobson-Hughes

ldobsonhughes

After stating yesterday, schools would definitely return, ON govt now says they will be virtual indefinitely. It's just unconscionable. All of it. The chaos, the impact on children and their

Corey Wallace

CoreyJWallace

Sound like the oft-derided Japanese '3Cs' much?https://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/1260305939153985536 GOJ info has been promoting this for some time: https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/content/000061935.pdf It grew out of the focused 'active epi

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Rapid Antigen tests are very sensitive at Ct < 30 Above which-too little live virus to detectPpl worry transmission could occur at Ct > 30 and thus missed by Ag

Parker Molloy

ParkerMolloy

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1250201276412985344 So, I’ve been working on something this week about the focus on Trump’s decision to implement travel restrictions on China, and the more research I do, the clearer it

Jayanth P

Jayanth_TNIE

15 govt VRD labs and 4 pvt labs are testing #COVID19 samples in the state. The govt labs have 47 RT-PCT machines. We have done 9.71 lakh tests (18,200 samples

Alasdair Munro

apsmunro

So why aren't we seeing kids with COVID-19? Is it because they're not getting it, or just not sick enough to go to hospital?Iceland tested 6% of their whole population.

Diego Beghin

DiegoBeghin

Everyone heard about the telegraph, that old-timey way to transmit messages over long distances. But did you know that before the famous, electric kind of telegraph existed, there were *optical*

Tamer Nawar

Tamer_Nawar

/1 Thread about evidence & logical consistency of @RIVM advice on official FAQ (20-04).I have some questions about evidence and possible inconsistencies.NL: https://www.rivm.nl/coronavirus-covid-19/vragen-antwoordenENG: https://www.rivm.nl/en/nov

Dr. Lynora Saxinger 🇨🇦

AntibioticDoc

...about COVID numbers. (Note -I’m often up for a reasonable look at varied viewpoints, and can get along with people that I also violently disagree with. )The 2 broad takes

Adam Fleming

adamfleming

Crunching the European Parliament motion on the UK. Where it calls for ALIGNMENT: - Environment, labour & social, relevant tax, state aid policies- Market surveillance of products/product standards- COP26 position-

Joel Miller

joel_c_miller

A problem with armchair epidemiologists is that they can make very confident-sounding statements without acknowledging (or perhaps even recognizing) that those statements depend on assumptions.https://twitter.com/federicolois/status/1298631

Will Davies

davies_will

One reading of this is that government scientists saw a catastrophe looming, but because they couldn't communicate it in terms of a governmentality, they kept it to themselveshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-path-spec

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

(1/4) Study of a #COVID19 cluster of at least 260 people at a children's camp. More children (who didn't have to wear masks) were infected than adults (masks required); attack

Hassaan Q

thehqazi

Here's why the Pakistani government's COVID-19 response has been horrific. a THREAD. I'll first talk about how Pakistan's COVID-19 response's been running by the Trump playbook.I'll then talk about best

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

So looks like the govt has finally designated B.1.617.2 (so-called 'Indian variant' a VOC- the PHE appears to have designated that the risk to the public is 'high', but the