#Infection

Ibraheem Abioye

DrAbioye

My current thinking on testing for #COVIDー19 in resource-poor settings. If you identify as many infected cases as possible, you can enforce their isolation and everyone else can go about

Tridibesh Dey

treeonplastics

Indeed! Much change in policy seems to be happening as we fight individual battles in these strange times.Been doing some documenting around "single-use" plastics & related discourses in the times

Todd Lowdon

tlowdon

Consistent w/ expectations, today's @COVID19Tracking report shows US #COVID19 DEATHS appear to have peaked Apr 10, ~18 days after current Mar 23-26 peak in cases by DATE OF ILLNESS ONSET

Office for National Statistics (ONS)

ONS

Building on previous analysis that looked at rates of death involving #COVID19 by occupation, we’ve published analysis to help understand the impact of lockdown on these rates http://ow.ly/q87M50BxCcY Of the

vakibs

vakibs

The high positive rate in the tests from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh is due to remarkably high level of infection in the Tablighi attendees of theMarkaz Islamist congregation in

#MaskUp Dr. Haryax Pathak

HaryaxPathak

Hey #MedTwitterAs promised, taking this thread further, I'll highlight a few more aspects about #COVID19.A) TRANSMISSION and SPECIFIC PRECAUTIONSB) WHAT IS SUPER-SPREADING?C) WHAT IS R0?1/n https://twitter.com/HaryaxPathak/status/133080

Mathang Seshagiri

mathangcito

Thread on important stories on #COVID19 testing in India There are 51 private labs with 16k sample collection centres across India. They are collectively testing less than 500 samples a

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

Aaron Blake

AaronBlake

Birx rejects idea promoted on Fox that deaths inflated because ppl really die of other things:"Those individuals will have an underlying condition, but that underlying condition did not cause their

John Bye

_johnbye

After claiming last month that cases weren't rising (when they clearly were) due to errors in how he calculated the positivity rates, @carlheneghan is now saying that "while detected cases

Fuck tat shit, beer?

adapaavi

Both Tablighi Jamat and Non Tablighi Jamat in TN use same testing guidelines. TJ Positives 679, Non TN 59. TJ samples - 1630, Non TJ - 4121 (Pending not included)

Alan Baxter

AlanBixter

So: What is Wrong with COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine in Australia? A thread.After difficulties with compliance to COVID-19 stay-at-home orders for returning travellers, Hotel Quarantine became the mainstay of infection management

Lock Down Not Vacation! Murali Krishnan

dwimidhaM

#ChinaVirus Is the risk of higher mortality the biggest the world faces today? No. It is the risk of inability to avoid infection and relapse over and over again is

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

Stephen Reicher

ReicherStephen

COVID cases spike to 3000 a dayGovernment blames young people realxing and partying and endangering everyone else.This is so wrong and so counter-productive.Here are four reasons why First, it is

Sanjeev Sanyal

sanjeevsanyal

Am writing to get inputs on an important statistical issue relating to understanding the pandemic. Would like inputs from anyone in the world who has worked on it. It relates