#Infectious

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

(1/15) Updated thread on children and #COVID19, summarising recent studies.Summary: both child-to-child and child-to-adult transmission has occurred; cases in children are being missed. #edutwitter #Schulen #Kinder #kinderen (2/15) First, a

Stefan Baral

sdbaral

My Public Health Truths (a "living" thread).There are few "truths" in public health, but the following include those I have observed in quantitative & qualitative studies, community engagement, and program

Zhou Lab

ZhouLabUCR

Researchers have identified microscopic features including a unique furin cleavage site that could make the pathogen more infectious than the SARS virus @DrEricDing https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00660-x More information on the furin muta

Dr Ronan Glynn

ronan_glynn

There has very understandably been a particular focus on Dublin over the past few days. However, most other counties are also seeing increasing numbers of cases of #COVID19. Three in

Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician)

jeremyfaust

One of the facile errors respecting pediatric Covid vaccine statistics?Citing "absolute risk reduction."ARR has vastly different implications depending on disease; whether *eventually all people will get it unless vaccinated* (end

Alasdair Munro

apsmunro

"If there's one thing we learn from history, it's that we don't learn from history"A new study from India looks at #COVID19 contact tracing And now reported, "[children] transmitted the

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

(1/3) Important study finding infectious virus (not just viral RNA) in the air >=2m away from a #COVID19 patient.Virus was successfully cultured from air samples, and was shown to match

Henry Mance

henrymance

Ah, Matt Ridley is blaming the WHO for downplaying the threat from infectious disease.Is this the same @mattwridley who wrote this in 2016? The whole 2016 column is a complete

Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega

raulpacheco

Folks: I am trained as a comparativist political scientist. I specialize in comparative public policy. I am here to tell you thata) Yes, you SHOULD compare countries' responses to COVID-19b)

Irenes (many)

ireneista

Quick reference to COVID-19 variants of concern:B.1.1.7: first identified in the UK, more transmissible.B.1.351: first identified in South Africa, some vaccines are less effective.We're going to try to use the

Nicola Low #EveryDayCounts #StillFBPE

nicolamlow

Here’s a short thread on some rather worrying misinterpretations of the meaning and implications of “asymptomatic” #SARS-CoV-2 or #COVID19. This is provoked by a @bmj_latest news item by https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/369/bmj.m1375.full.pdf Let’s

Anne Zink

annezinkmd

Hearing about these cases is hard.People who have the virus that causes #COVID19 are most infectious early on when they might have very mild symptoms, if any at all. They

Grieve Chelwa

gchelwa

This #COVID19 crisis is once again showing us how important it is to democratize & diversify the editorial boards of “top” scholarly journals. The African continent has been battling outbreaks

Kartik Cherabuddi, MD, FACP

kartc

15 Reasons to NOT wear a face mask. From an Infectious diseases specialist and epidemiologist. 1. You are in your bathroom2. You are in your bedroom3. You are walking from

Paul Cotterill

Bickerrecord

1/ One of the things the govt seems to have absolutely no handle on at all is that the cases in universities are likely to be much, much higher than

Isaac Bogoch

BogochIsaac

Eliminating #COVID19 is not feasible any time soon."Given the global burden of COVID-19, even if a single area of the world were to eliminate the disease, it would be very