#Infectious

becks

beccacamping_

Just saw my favorite neighborhood guy, Ron. He’s a former Navy vet who was kicked out on the street. His daughter is a lawyer in New York and his grandson

Kieran Walsh, PhD

KieranWalshMPSI

There appears to be a lot of confusion between #ISOLATION and #QUARANTINE. These are two distinct and crucial public health measures required to prevent the spread of #COVID19. However, they

Ann Marie Kumfer

AnnKumfer

#medtwitter 1/What are the top three diagnoses of which you automatically skeptical? My top 3 are UTI, cellulitis, and CAP. Before talking more about "UTIs:, I must repeat the mantra:PYURIA

The Weather Channel India

weatherindia

#Coronavirus Can Survive for More than a Week on Face Masks, Finds New Studyhttps://weather.com/en-IN/india/coronavirus/news/2020-04-06-coronavirus-survive-more-week-face-masks-new-study The research examined how long the virus lasts on other commonl

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Check out this very cool study from @casanova_lab hot off the press at @ScienceMagazine.It shows that very severe #COVID19 is associated with auto-antibodies against type I interferons.https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/09/23

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

TERRIBLE—WH’s pandemic advisor is telling Trump to go w/ Swedish “herd immunity” (plow thru) approach, to lift restrictions so the healthy can just get infected, instead of limiting social

🏳️‍🌈 Y-Wing Propaganda Account

DIGITALINKBLOT

A small thread.So apparently, people are big mad at The Dragon Prince writers because they’ve coined a term called “Shipping oil” to describe “Two characters in a scene slathered with

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

There are two main ways to estimate the reproduction number for SARS-CoV-2, and I'd like to discuss the one that doesn't get so much attention... 1/ Most reported R values

David Coletto

DavidColetto

A few thoughts on the new @worldvisionca/@abacusdataca poll for #WorldRefugeeDay Most Canadians have thought about how the pandemic is impacting people living in poor countries and it impacts on

Meenakshi Bewtra

DrsMeena

1/ I spoke today on .@tntradioempire about this:My husband is an Infectious disease doc. They are *pretty damn busy* right now at Penn .We know we both will get deployed.

Charley Chetto

CharleyChetto

My thoughts on #covid19 lockdown are constantly evolving. Now they are:(1) Lockdown in UK was necessary(2) The ‘side-effects’ of this ‘medicine’ are awful. Not just financial, but also social and

@theformanalyst

theformanalyst

Been trying to write this update for 5-6 days but found it impossible. Spent 8 days in hospital in the infectious disease ward fighting COVID and an infection. Can only

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

A security guard at the Pan Pacific hotel in #Perth has tested positive, along with two housemates. Short thread with the details.If you’ve visited any of these sites, you must

Trisha Greenhalgh 😷 #CovidIsAirborne

trishgreenhalgh

1/Thread on objections to face coverings for the general public. See this tweet for a longer lay summary.https://twitter.com/trishgreenhalgh/status/1249743825637199875?s=20 [Mute thread if you’ve had enough on this topic.] 2/Also draws on

David Fisman

DFisman

Ontario’s school opening plan is not a “strong plan”. It’s a weak, incomplete, under-resourced plan that continues to be improvised 25 days (thanks to delay) before school opening. It will

Scott Gottlieb, MD

ScottGottliebMD

1/n People who seem to lack a clear background on the history of public health interventions seem to be deliberately or inadvertently distorting the role of cell phone apps in