#Infectious

A short thread about exponential curves, because suddenly they are extremely popular. 1/17 Simplified models of things like disease transmission often involve exponential curves: if you assume that each person
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1/ Here's the latest chapter in my #COVID19 drama.On Saturday, I tested POSITIVE on a #PCR test. Was I reinfected?(Note: this is a multi-tweet THREAD; please read ALL tweets in
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A damning indictment of droplet theory from as long as ago.1936, Wells & Wells, a husband and wife team.Thread. History. Before 1861 we didn't know there were organisms in the
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This new paper on #sarscov2 transmission delves into the data from Hunan province and it is really interesting and the kind of data I would love to see more of.
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While many people who become infected with coronavirus develop symptoms, others may carry it without realisingResearchers say it’s vital to know how many people are “silent spreaders” to understand the
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A great deal of the coronavirus confusion among national and global health experts, with confident pronouncements constantly modified or retracted, is because they never want to be seen endorsing the
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Musicians. It's going to be hard to let go of the idea of what an album is 'worth' that we've inherited from the physical media age. But if you want
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NEW: time for a Covid situation updateCases and hospitalisations are rising again across much of the western world.What’s driving the rise, and should we be worried? What’s behind the rise?Some
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#Thread on symptomatic, pre-symptomatic, asymptomatic #transmission. A symptomatic #COVID19 case is a patient who developed signs & symptoms compatible with #SARSCoV2 #coronavirus #infection. Symptomatic transmission refers to transmission from a
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Look at this extraordinary graph. It shows levels of housing overcrowding plotted against COVID-19 mortality rates. Here's another graph, showing the average coronavirus mortality rates among areas with different levels
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THREAD: HABBENINGS at GOOGLE1.) With the obvious changes to google’s search algorithms I decided to do a refresher dig...the first post Q posted related to google referenced “Keyhole”... 2.) Keyhole
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I missed the Woodward AMA friday, but saw the reaction on Twitter. Went back today to see if it was as bad as people said.It wasn’t. It was far worse.Speaking
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Earlier, it was believed that a large number of asymptomatic patients was bad news since people could infect others without knowing that they were infectedHowever, experts now point out that
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I posted this thread earlier because there's a serious challenge ahead: now that antigen tests are being used on a huge scale (WHO bought 120M; Abbott is producing ~50M/month), key
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Thread: I saw something in my feed, read it, and wondered about it, but there was no attribution, so I didn’t retweet it. I have now confirmed that the information
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1Why have ZERO members of congress thought about questioning our Director of National Intelligence & her ideas at the annual Event 201: Pandemic Simulation in OCT 2019?Why was she there?
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