#Infectious

1/ @SickKidsNews released guidance today about school reopening. Colleagues, mentors +caregiver advocates among co-authors. I was not involved in its development, and can appreciate concerns raised re: content and comprehensiveness.
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Given allegations about early UK response to Covid-19 I’ve been looking at minutes of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG). This to the main Scientific Advisory
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Some Sunday thoughts coming at you on a Monday: While my church has been virtual since March, many friends' churches are meeting in person with messaging like "We strongly recommend
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I have a lot of posts critiquing doctors. So, I wanted to make a thread highlighting a great experience I had with a doctor a couple years ago. This is
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My fear with this Cummings debacle is that the erosion of trust and depletion of consent to be governed is coinciding with sending people back to work and school. All
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The amount of Anti-Vaxxing I’ve read over the past week is truly astonishing. Infectious disease professionals and others are casting a preemptive shadow on Covid vaccines. This horrendous messaging is
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This video is trending all over Japan Twitter. This is my translation.CW: Ableism re: homelessness, mental illness, and substance abuse.I have decided not to take it out because that would
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How to upgrade or repair immunity to fight Corolla 19 and why so many have impaired immunity: The virus is most deadly to those in advanced ages. 70 years old
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Thread . Lots of positive energy towards #ContactTracing from the tech sector, but not sure we need more/better apps for #COVID19 #ContactTracing is much more than just maps, which
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this has been my bet for some time: when this is all said and done, there is going to be a strong source contamination fecal/oral route infection pathway for covid19.the
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SAGE have now put out a statement, highlighting that segmentation (trying to reach #herdimmunity by letting the virus rip through a population) is not a good idea. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/a
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Today, we're standing up a project called NextTrace that aims to enable digital participatory contact tracing and guide #COVID19 surveillance efforts. See a full description here https://nexttrace.org/about  or get the
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We have a rule in our house: no phones at the table.We made the rule to preserve family time and keep technology out. It wasn’t until Friday night that I
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1,053 new #COVID19 cases reported today in #Canada. It's a Monday, which means we get Saturday + Sunday + Monday #COVID19 cases in today's report for many provinces, particularly #BC
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We want to share a new resource with followers of this project: a knowledge base for SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing: https://airtable.com/shrGVEvpWp12RyLAI.Thanks to our friends at @airtable for the free Pro plan.
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Science has a lot to say about the effectiveness of wearing a mask to stop Covid-19, but the communication of that science has been corrupted by: Partisan divides Sensationalist media
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