#Infectious

Silkie Carlo

silkiecarlo

Reflecting on Lord Sumption’s extraordinary interview last month:“When human societies lose their freedom, it’s not usually because tyrants have taken it away. It’s usually because people willingly surrender their freedom

Tom Scott

Tom___Scott

1/ Not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but Dominic Cummings appears to take a keen amateur interest in epidemiology. This was one of the papers he specified as

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

I suspect there are multiple causes to the reduction in #SARSCoV2 Case Fatality Rates (CFRs). Improved treatment undoubtedly plays a role. There might be some mortality displacement with a fraction

Nic Spaull

NicSpaull

I know I'm not an epi/Infectious Diseases expert but many who are (like @apsmunro) have been putting out helpful summaries on what the research is saying. I wrote a policy

Mangy Jay

magi_jay

One thing that people don't seem to understand is that effective infectious disease control has *always* involved what seem like harsh, draconian measures, especially for airborne disease. Many of us

CarlHansenMD

CarlHansenMD

What function do you expect such buzz about porous face masks to magically serve without scientific establishment of evidence & understanding of a masks purpose as well as how touching

Victor Leung

VicLeungIDdoc

1/ Proposing a constructive disruptive approach to empowering community testing for COVID-19. @DrMikeRyan talked about engaging the community and creating change through disruption.https://twitter.com/freespiritus/status/1390818532506497025

Molly McKew

MollyMcKew

The rapid spread of conspiracy against Bill Gates/Gates Foundation, which has poured more private $$ into stopping infectious diseases/research no one else wants to fund than just about anyone, is

el gato malo

boriquagato

this is suggestive.the doc is saying that severe patients with COV are not acting like they have an RTI.they look like they have altitude sickness.they simply cannot get enough oxygen.there

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

#Covid19 numbers in Germany have been rising steadily for weeks (and recently particularly here in Berlin) and I get a lot of people/some media asking: So what? It’s just infections

David Paulk 波大卫

davidpaulk

THREAD: The person Shanghai is trusting to keep the city safe from the Wuhan #coronavirus raised a few eyebrows while speaking to media today. So who is he, and what

Ganesh Kadamur

iamgkadam

Surfacing a very technical but important, ongoing thread for visibility. We ask the qn - "what level of sensitivity do we really need for a test that is done frequently

Tim Hayward

Tim_Hayward_

Hundreds of medics and health scientists plus thousands of citizens have signed support for the declaration on day 1: https://gbdeclaration.org/ The thinking behind it is laid out here for anyone who

Jennifer Brea🦒

jenbrea

I’ve written a lot about post-infectious craniocervical instability—what I believe to have been the cause of my ME symptoms––as a kind of Grisel’s syndrome (hypothetically speaking). This paper has a

Dr. Aqsa Shaikh // اقصٰی شیخ

Dr_Aqsa_Shaikh

What happens when #COVID__19 happens has been written by many and experienced by many. But very few narratives are available on what happens after 17 days when you are free

Catboy Slim

kendrawcandraw

I should really organize some Art Thoughts into a proper thread at some point, but one thing that was an ah-hah moment for me was to actually start making the