#Infectious

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

You’re not an epidemiologist. You’re a right-wing propagandist that’s asking millions of Americans to die from #COVID19.I hope you sleep well at night after telling every immunocompromised & high risk

Cody Uhing

CodyUhing

A Thread:Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID Director Dr. Fauci was appointed Director of NIAID in 1984. He oversees an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose,

COVIDSchoolCasesMB

mb_covid

Having spent the last months reading many, many Public Health notices, it's clear that there is a huge disparity in information being sharedTransparency will be especially important as we enter

Bekka

twicethemelody

It really isn’t my week. Damn. So my mother and I both got tested for #COVID19 yesterday and it was weird. The test itself wasn’t painful, just highly uncomfortable and

Dr Zubaida Haque

Zubhaque

This is really concerning. The government are carrying out human guinea-pig experiments in Liverpool to see *whether or not transmission increases* (which may result in hospitalisations and death) if clubbers

Deputy Dawgly

DDawgly

1) The PCR 'test' is NOT a diagnostic tool; it cannot distinguish between viruses, or even viral debris & bacterial debris. And it cannot determine infectivity. Medical scientists have known

Sara Danner Dukic

saradannerdukic

YES, YES, YES. These governors (including my own; Dems and Republicans) have banded together to make rapid testing a reality. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/coronavirus/coronavirus-state-testing-compact/2020/08/04/8b73b

Monica H Green

monicaMedHist

Okay, since @KevinMKruse now seems to have given his imprimatur to this piece in the @washingtonpost today about #nCoV2019 & past plagues, it seems time for a mini-thread about #medhist

ABC News

ABC

NEW: Refusing to accept any criticism of his administration’s response, President Trump played a roughly four-minute video of news clips in a campaign-style montage praising his handling of the coronavirus

Farzad Mostashari

Farzad_MD

1/ I was glad to be asked by @ScottGottliebMD & @ASlavitt to sign on to this important bipartisan proposal to CongressLet me tell you why I liked this proposal, and

Nova

FederalistNo78

Fauci (NIAID), Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK), Gates, CDC, WHO, GAVI, UNAIDS, Walter Reed Army Institute for Research (WRAIR) came together to produce the Malaria Vaccine Mosquirix. Being that development started

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

JUST IN: You May Have Antibodies After Coronavirus Infection. But Not for Long. Antibodies to the virus faded quickly in asymptomatic people, scientists reported. That does not mean immunity disappears.

Motoko Rich

motokorich

Prime Minster Abe removes his mask as he steps to the podium for press conference and asks reporters to remove their masks if they ask a question Even with a

Anosognosiogenesis

pookleblinky

Coronavirus is several times more contagious than flu, several times more deadly than flu, but it is very low on the scale of truly awful possible pandemics.It's the easy mode,

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Have been continually updating how to convey the idea of pushing for cheap $1 daily “low sensitivity” tests. The “low sensitivity” word makes many people a bit queasy. And without

The Claremont Run

ClaremontRun

In Claremont’s 2nd Brood story, he inverts the perspective to a brood-infected every-man vantage point character who is in way over his head. With dramatic irony, Claremont denies Harry the