#Disease

Seanan McGuire

seananmcguire

Fun questions I've been asked today: If science is so great, why didn't we have any warning about COVID-19? Delivered with the smug "gotcha" of someone who knows for a

Jeffrey Barrett

jcbarret

Out today: two academic publications (not yet peer reviewed) that formally test whether the new B.1.1.7 variant is more transmissible. Both conclude yes, about 50% more. First, a pre-print

David Leonhardt

DLeonhardt

There’s some confusion about the meaning of the word “effective” in the vaccine trials. I tried to clear it up in today’s edition of The Morning.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/briefing/vaccination-myanmar-coup-rochester-police.h

Alanna Bortolin

AlannaBortolin

Cumulative Deaths in York CountyYork County reached 350 COVID deaths to date yesterday, the same amount we'd expect to see in five normal flu seasons combined.1/#YorkPA #COVID19 #YorkPACovidData@yorkcountypa @YCOEM @CityofYorkPA

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

How do we measure how well the flu vaccine works every year? We use an observational study called the "test negative design." A few tweets on how it works, and

Dionne JacksonMiller

djmillerJA

People have been asking if Election Day can be postponed.s 20 of the Representation of the People Act:After GG has issued proclamation naming Election Day & before Election Day, if

Nate Stone

Nate_D_Stone

Thread - Benefits Of Intermittent FastingIF seems to be one of the most misunderstood concepts in health & fitnessIf you who aren't aware, it's "shrinking" the amount of time in

Jennifer Bendery

jbendery

Infectious disease expert Michael Osterholm on what Americans should expect from the coronavirus pandemic in the next few months:“We are about to enter COVID hell."https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michael-osterholm-coronavirus-warning-

Caroline Coram

CarolineCoramUK

Questions for the day. What if viruses are formed by the body as a sort of cleaning messenger and are being mistakenly blamed for disease? The lipid envelope contents are

Peter Barrett

petermbarrett1

Public health medicine is undervalued until high profile outbreaks like #covid19. Disease prevention is often behind the scenes work that can be taken for granted. Why do things need to

David Wallace-Wells

dwallacewells

“Pandemic anxiety has turned lately to the question of viral evolution—the possibility that the disease might be outracing our efforts to contain it.” Of all the new strains, the Brazilian

Leora Horwitz

leorahorwitzmd

*Caution non-peer reviewed preprint* US #COVID19 death rates are lower now than in the spring. Is disease less lethal (better treatments, etc), or just younger people getting sick? We examined

Sadique Hussain

sadz20312

For the first time since all this covid bollocks started I am finding things difficult mentally. Not from some non deadly disease but from this government impeding on every last

Dr. Adele Hite

ahhite

To me, this comment & some that follow indicate that there are some misconceptions about how we got where we are now (& thus, I think, some mistaken ideas about

Allen Cheng

peripatetical

Promising early results for the Pfizer mRNA vaccine, but would like to see full details of safety and efficacy.https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1325767520092102659 We obviously don't have much detail about the results yet, but

Rapid Tests

RapidTests

The FDA has a well-intentioned requirement for asymptomatic data.But that requirement greatly slows down progress on rapid tests, and new data suggests it isn't even necessary anymore! In light of

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