#Infection

Lucre Snooker

LucreSnooker

https://twitter.com/bradloncar/status/1308430273596583938 this is to be taken with a huge grain of salt, but my sloppy estimate is that as of today the pfizer trial has accumulated 657,000 person-days of efficacy

Tate Reeves

tatereeves

Let’s talk about herd immunity. I’ve listened to some people argue that the rapid spread of cases is a good thing, and we need to reach herd immunity in Mississippi

Isaac Stone Fish

isaacstonefish

Chinese coronavirus statistics are problematic. I propose that American media outlets should add an asterisk next to mentions of Chinese statistics about the disease. Here's a thread on why.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/07/why-d

scott cunningham

causalinf

I am on a task force of local healthcare professionals and epidemiologists (don’t ask why someone thought I was competent enough to join something like that). I asked about false

Michael Lin, PhD-MD

michaelzlin

Here's a very useful website that predicts #COVID19 hospitalizations and deaths over time by country and state. You can see how your country or state is doing resisting #SARSCOV2. Of

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

Covid deaths are counted in a fundamentally different and more liberal fashion than flu deaths. Using excess deaths over Spring 2020 provides a more reasonable measure for Covid deaths, but

Chris Hopson

ChrisCEOHopson

1/15 Lots of recent focus on PPE so posting another, up to date, thread. Usual basis: we are not Government, we are not NHS England and we are not responsible

Gummi Bear

gummibear737

Must Read Deep Dive - Calculating Real Infection Rates from AB StudiesI found this incredible data from NYC AB testingThey've been reporting weekly AB testing results since April 11th (2

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

A key reminder of SARS-CoV-2 cases; in March/April the testing depth and testing criteria was far far lower - so different to now as one should mentally split away graphs

Dr. Jaime Friedman

DrJaimeFriedman

Some people didn’t quite understand what I meant by this tweet so here is a tweetorial for you.To be fair, I had 5 words or less.https://twitter.com/drjaimefriedman/status/1264225498038558720 Fever is one of

Sarah

sass_byname

Why is nobody talking about viral interference? (Infection with one virus can interfere with the ability of another virus to infect a host at the same time, providing temporary protection).

Rajan Mehta

RealRajanMehta

Some things about those hill-shaped infection curves:1) they assume that R (which essentially measures the rate of spread) is constant. People are expecting the actual curve to look like those

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

India reports another 400,000+ cases, 4000+ death dayA sustained level of horriblenessAnd its not correctTrue number surely closer to 25,000 deaths, 2-5 million infections todayLots of ways to estimate but

Magilla Gorilla 39

39Magilla

(1) Another look at the Florida #COVID19 Deaths Backlog:Florida reports deaths along with the actual day of the death recorded on the deceased's death certificate.Death Counts are nearly complete through

James Powell

jpowell1192

Dammit...https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/navy-sailor-assigned-uss-theodore-roosevelt-dies-after-contracting-coronavirus-n1182571?cid=eml_nbn_20200413 To be clear, this is in no way any more or less tragic than the infection amd death of anyone

CovidSenseBloke

CovidSenseBloke

Nearly a month after my tweets about infection rates AFTER countries mandated mask wearing gained some attention, perhaps it's time for an update.Some countries have strengthened their use, such as