#Infectious

Alex Washburne

Alex_Washburne

How many people in the US have COVID? We don’t know, but @inschool4life and I estimate how many people have gone to their doctor with a non-flu influenza-like illness (ILI)

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

This is a thread about how to interpret the seemingly sudden appearance of #COVID19 across the much of the US in the past week with some back-of-the-envelop calculations for number

Eric Crawford

ericcrawford

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: "This is the end of that famous week that we spoke about last weekend, when actually what

Farzad Mostashari

Farzad_MD

1/ This is what has been worrying epidemiologists about #COVID19- if asymptomatic/pre-symptomatic individuals are driving the outbreak, then coming out of lockdown will be exceedingly difficulthere's what it might takehttps://science.sciencemag.o

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

Tony Fauci says the US death toll is ‘going to be very disturbing’, even when you consider the 120k+ lives lost already. He’s right. I would optimistically estimate that the

Allison Elizabeth Bailey

AEBaileyEpi

People like hearing about my research interests when I start talking about the role of West African funeral rites in Ebola outbreaksThey don’t like hearing about my research interests when

So Fain

sofain

30% of Americans deserve to be bullied.https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/13/us/coronavirus-made-in-lab-poll-trnd/index.html Bats are edible. But how about you keep the focus on who is at fault for lying about important details early on in

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Something has really been bothering me a lot and it's the notion that there is a scientific debate about whether aerosol transmission of #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #coronavirus occurs. I don't think

Shouting into the void #3Point5Percent 🇬🇧 🇱🇰 ⚒

JanAltendorff

It's 2am and I'm awake, unable to sleep because the Cummings thing just wound me up. Again the journos let us down. I have to get it off my chest.

kirthi

kirthikak_101

just a reminder that doctors have confirmed that there is literally no feasible medical reason that you would be unable to wear a mask. yes, it may be uncomfortable, but

Cinderella Man

Osi_Suave

Let me try to break down the concept of pooled testing Pooled testing is a procedure commonly used to reduce the cost of screening a large number of individuals

Aaron Lockhart 🇺🇸

arabbitorduck

[thread] 1 of 7The three-part challenge, regarding masks and SARS-CoV-2.Part 1: Mask advocates need to show that the virus is infectious in aerosols. Find a study where it can be

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ A reader points to a VERY worrisome finding in the @cdcgov Chicago nursing home report: patients L19, a 49-year-old staffer, and M20, a 77-year-old resident - both had very

WIRED

WIRED

Back in March, a study on how long the coronavirus lasts on surfaces fueled what one author called “the great fomite freakout.” People scrubbed everything from mail to groceries. It's

Dr Clare Craig

ClareCraigPath

Liverpool University Trust has had the most COVID deaths since September of any NHS trust. From 01/09/20 until 25/10/20 there have been 140 'COVID' deaths. This is 27% of all

Allen Cheng

peripatetical

There's been a lot of discussion about "excess mortality", which I've mentioned previously. A short thread about some limitations.https://twitter.com/peripatetical/status/1253115315677888514 This method has been traditionally used f