#Disease

Dana Fried

leftoblique

TL;DR: The vaccine is the opposite of wearing a mask.(Explanation follows.)https://twitter.com/nataliexdean/status/1357011532106792960 Data seem to show that the vaccine will slow but not stop the spread of Covid-19; what it will

Adam Hamdy

adamhamdy

1. I find it remarkable that some medics and scientists aren’t raising their voices to make children as safe as possible. The comment about children being less infectious than adults

CDC

CDCgov

#COVID19 can spread rapidly within households, according to a new @CDCMMWR. Over half of people who lived in the same house as someone infected with the virus got it too.

Dr. Jonathan Kolby

MyFrogCroaked

Five years ago today, USFWS banned 201 species of #salamanders from entering the US to prevent a #chytrid extinction crisis (see here: https://www.fws.gov/injuriouswildlife/salamanders.html?fbclid=IwAR0VIh1ZXGYgx05ilZnN1x03dsK35TPzAVApe6eoj

Seanan McGuire

seananmcguire

A new lockdown has brought the "99% of people recover" crew out in force. Okay. So let's look at numbers.Do you know a hundred people? Cool. Which one are you

Anke Hüls

anke_huels

In March 2020 we formed the @t21rs COVID-19 Initiative to understand the impact of COVID-19 in individuals with Down syndrome. Huge team effort that has resulted in data of >1,000

Infectious Disease Ethics

ID_ethics

Terminology thread:rate ≠ riskinfection ≠ diseasequarantine ≠ isolationsocial distancing ≠ physical distancingprolonged PCR positivity ≠ sheddingvirulence ≠ transmissibility References to follow 1/ rate ≠ riskA risk is a proba

Linsey Marr

linseymarr

Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: What We Know https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab039/6103221#.YAYRMJvSJ4Q.twitter Paper from our @theNASEM #EnviroHealthMatters workshop. Source-to-dose framework, like for p

Dean Anderson

germ_nation14

In 1919 the media and her controllers launched a psychological assault on the Australian population pertaining to the imminent appearance of a deadly disease that was headed for our shores,

Flavio Toxvaerd

toxvaerd1

In discussing control measures, many people think in terms of intratemporal tradeoffs (health vs wealth), while most economists think also about the intertemporal tradeoffs (health AND wealth today vs health

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

Some recent credible studies from the UK suggest that the variant B.1.1.7 which was first detected there is not only more transmissible but associated with greater severity, measured by deaths.

Nicky Kyle Gardening

nickykylegarden

#Gardeners are thinking about ordering #tomato varieties now - so I though it might be interesting and fun to do a tomato #thread. Some of you may know I started

Rafael Fonseca MD

Rfonsi1

Not a useful tweet at all - fear prompting. Obviously living in Arizona and being a physician I was curious about the data. The nuance is missing. Many in AZ

Bennie Kara FCCT 🌹

benniekara

The Leicester lockdown is really difficult to hear about, especially since I was born in Leicester as part of the East-African Asian community, and my family still live there. Thread

Matt McCarthy

DrMattMcCarthy

COVID question I've been getting: Why do I need a vaccine when there's a 99.7% survival rate? It's a fair point (and makes for a lively discussion!). Here is my

Against Everyone With Conner Habib

ConnerHabib

1Brief thread on disease:There are, unfortunately, many spiritual people dedicated to saying germs & viruses don’t cause disease.While I agree that the Western medical model is reductive, I also think

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