#COVID

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science | The BMJ“The UK’s pandemic response relies too heavily on scientists and other government appointees with worrying competing interests, including shareholdings in c

Wil Gibb, MD

Wil_Gibb

YOU CANNOT be “cleared” for a gathering by a negative COVID test1) Might be too early in course to detect virus 2) ~20% of tests are false negatives 3) You

Don Wolt

tlowdon

Fear not, for I bring good tidings of great hospital capacity. No doubt you've heard news or seen scary graphs of COVID hospitalizations skyrocketing across the country. Yes, C19 hospns

Jodash

jodasher

Thread: People need to know what is going on here in AB. Tonight we got ANOTHER COVID CASE NOTICE for our high school, that's 4 this week alone & it's

Emily R Smith, ScD MPH

DrEmilyRSmith

The results are in. We now have data from three randomized trials (gold standard in medical research) showing that #hydroxychloroquine does not help—and might even be harmful—when taken to prevent

🚩Shepherd🏴

NeolithicSheep

The Morning newsletter from the NYT looks at how scicomm around covid vaccines has failed us.https://nyti.ms/2NDtlmy This pretty much tracks with my experience with eg people screaming in horror because

Rich Davis, PhD, D(ABMM), MLS 🦠🔬🧫

richdavisphd

Discussions abt safe ("safe") COVID behavior, even among people who know it's real and dangerous, sometimes feel at odds.It feels like arguing abt "finances" but one person arguing abt adjusting

microCOVID project

microcovid

PSA: A negative test result does NOT mean you're COVID-free!It means that you don't YET have enough virus in your body to detect.If you were infected right BEFORE the test,

Ada Lovelace Institute

AdaLovelaceInst

Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner, says @ICOnews would approach a vaccine passport proposal the same as any Gov initiative by asking: is it necessary? Is it proportionate? How is the data

John Burn-Murdoch

jburnmurdoch

In spirit of humility and depoliticising Covid, here are things I’ve changed (and continue to change) my mind on:- Masks- School reopening- Importance of "luck" in between-country variations in severity-

Milhouse Van Houten 😀

Milhouse_Van_Ho

Ontario update.#covid19ontario #COVID19 #covid19CanadaOntario covid-19 cases, deaths, and testing. Ontario Fall/Winter season: May be able to declare a peak when average week-over-week growth reaches zero. Weekly all-cause deaths and deaths

Aaron Ring

aaronmring

I am getting a lot of emails and DMs from people wondering if our recent preprint raises concerns that a vaccine to SARS-CoV-2 would cause autoantibody responses like we see

el gato malo

boriquagato

the hope-simpson viral seasonality timetable has been running like a well-managed train systemonce you know what to look for, these disease spikes are no more surprising than the 3:10 to

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Analogy: “Drunk driving car accidents don’t kill people—metal and concrete kills people, & maybe their internal bleeding”Wanna know what causes heart attacks in a 41 year old Congressman-elect w/ no

Olivier Blanchard

ojblanchard1

1. Twitter is great in allowing you to get your thoughts out quickly. Sometimes too quickly. You have second thoughts. The world changes. I want to take three covid

Ben Eltham

beneltham

If private aged care was any other industry, we would have shut it down long ago. Imagine if an airline had multiple planes go down, month after month There are

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