#Infection

OKC-SPAN

OKC_SPAN

Good morning. I am in place to cover this morning’s Special Meeting of the City Council of Oklahoma City with the Oklahoma City-County Health Department. Today will be an informational

Eric Topol

EricTopol

Covid reinfection in a 25 year-old man in Nevada, as confirmed by virus genomic sequencing; 2nd infection more severe @TheLancetInfDis https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30764-7/fulltext This is the 1st USA d

Julio Delgado, MD, MS

JulioDelgadoMD

ARUP Laboratories begin COVID-19 antibody testing in Utah. We are working to quickly develop testing capability to offer nationally.https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/arup-laboratories-begin-covid-19-antibody-testing-in-utah ARUP’s first COVID-

Jon Deeks

deeksj

@BBCr4today invited me to speak about lateral flow tests this morning (can listen at 0650). All government plans are now about using tests to "release" people - this depends on

Gianluca Rinaldi

gian_rinaldi

1. What's the infection fatality rate for COVID-19? @MatteoParadisi and I looked at 10 Lombardy towns locked down Feb 21. With a fully functioning hospital system(early days of epidemic), we

Paul Yu MD PhD

bmprii

We all have people in our circle or families who aren't taking this pandemic seriously or are susceptible to COVID19 trutherism. Before they dismiss this pandemic as a political weapon

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Doctors in India are concerned about an increase in a highly fatal fungal infection affecting cases & recently recovered from #COVID19. Mucormycosis, is a mold that attacks the respiratory tract,

David Rhodes

davidrhodesBBC

The North East & Yorkshire has the highest #Covid19 R value according to work produced by @MRC_BSU at the University of Cambridge. The high R value means the NE &

Alasdair Munro

apsmunro

1/15 #Fever #tweetorialParents and paediatricians alike are obsessed with feverWe've all got fever fever But it is SO misunderstoodLet's take a look at what fever actually is, and finish

Diego Bassani, PhD 🏠😷💉

DGBassani

Can the the absence of evidence of in-school transmission be taken as evidence of absence? This is the question that @KaitEJohnson9, @mikha_ehl, M. Stoddard, R. Pasco, Spencer Fox, L. Meyers

Sam Wang

SamWangPhD

I'm thinking quantitatively about the risk to kids and grown-ups as schools reopen. Seems to me that the only place this can happen safely is the Northeast - and that

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

One thing I don't think enough people understand is that by the time the public was aware of the COVID epidemic on any real scale, ***it had already peaked***. Here's

Health Nerd

GidMK

Lots of serology happening around the world, so I thought I'd do a thread collating some of the infection-fatality estimates for #COVID19 1/n 2/n INFECTION-fatality rate (IFR) is the rate

Morag

DrMoragKerr

I'm sure families in Britain would like to do this too, but so long as supermarkets are limiting every shopper to a very few of each type of item people

Health Nerd

GidMK

Lots of people are still comparing the COVID-19 death rate with influenza ("it's only as deadly as the flu!")This is very misleadingIf you compare apples to apples, COVID-19 is MUCH

Tony Breu

tony_breu

1/14Why is secondary dengue infection more likely to cause hemorrhagic fever than primary infection?Not all infections confer immunity, but why would prior exposure lead to WORSE outcomes?To answer these questions,