#Infectious

Tim Travis

TimTravis2

So Bill Gates said Scott Atlas is a crackpot? Is it strange to anyone that Gates has become so blatantly political during this pandemic, where he is also most staunch

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

1/6 In Sweden, they claim that 26% of Stockholm will have been infected with coronavirus by May 1st. This is based on their own modeling. Flagging a few reasons why

Joey Kaufman

joeyrkaufman

Dr. Carlos del Rio, an infectious disease specialist at Emory University and member of the NCAA’s COVID-19 advisory panel, discussing fall sports. "I feel like the Titanic. We have hit

Panos Roussos

panos_strather

By now, we all have read/seen dozens of analyses, videos (like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se9yqWNIG8A) linking coronaviruses with: 1)Industrialization of farming (not 'domesticated' but *abused* animals), incl. excessive (mis)use of #an

Allen Cheng

peripatetical

The PM has indicated that the Australian #COVID19 modelling will be published during the week. A thread (part 2; note part 1 with my disclaimers)https://twitter.com/peripatetical/status/1243684739602501633?s=20 There are going to be

Chris Masterjohn

ChrisMasterjohn

Here's my interview with Gabriela Gomes on herd immunity and COVID-19.https://youtu.be/egN8oXFBTWk Gabriela Gomes is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at University of Strathclyde Glasgow and corresponding author of the rece

Marty Makary

MartyMakary

I like Faucci, but how did the media anoint him "the nation's top infectious disease doctor" He's an excellent lab virologist, good at science lessons on dist & hygiene but

Andrew Lee

andrewleedr

For public health & infectious disease specialists, the tale of "Typhoid Mary" is legendary. Mary, a cook in New York, had typhoid and over several decades managed to infect at

George Conway

gtconway3d

Reupping this thread to remind everyone that @realDonaldTrump’s incredible genius, wisdom, and expertise extends far beyond virology, cellular biochemistry, and infectious disease medicine, but into divers fields as well.https://twitter.com/gtconway3

William Dalrymple

DalrympleWill

Is a new variant driving India’s coronavirus catastrophe? "scientists have urged against leaping to conclusions about the extent to which the variant alone is responsible for the dizzying rise in

David Thunder

davidjthunder

—THREAD BEGINS—NPHET repeatedly cited test-driven case numbers.Can ⁦@ronan_glynn⁩ or NPHET please tell us 1. How many positive cases are active or infectious, given that PCRs detect the virus when it

Linsey Marr

linseymarr

Nearly tears of joy seeing new paper in medical journal with correct analysis and interpretation of aerosol transmission: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30323-4/fulltext See thread for summary of main poi

Edward Nirenberg

ENirenberg

There's a thought I've had that's been bugging me and I'd love feedback from the pros on this point: I really don't like the term "natural immunity" to describe the

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Important piece on immediate-result paper tests for COVID. Too often, media describes them as "less accurate." Wrong framework! They're useful in detecting contagiousness—not mere presence of virus which can show

Jillian Deutsch

DeutschJill

I began looking into the ECDC back in April for two reasons:First, most people I spoke to didn't what the ECDC was (they thought I was saying ACDC) or even

Murad Banaji

muradbanaji

We know that COVID-19 is bad in Maharashtra. But how bad? How prevalent is COVID-19 in Mumbai? Has it peaked? Is it going to be over any time soon? I