#Infected

Yoong

yoongkhean

Some info on vaccine efficacy. We tend to make the mistake of 95% efficacy (Pfizer) being 95 out of 100 is protected from the disease while 5 out of 100

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

The #COVID19 epidemic is rapidly growing throughout the US. What happens now? Here I try to make some predictions, but mostly try to explain how I think about the epidemic.

Lisa McNally

Lisa_McNally1

We're experiencing a surge of COVID-19 cases in our area. After searching through our data I have some tips for the UK Test & Trace system...(a thread...) (1/7) (2/7) The

Dr Clare Craig

ClareCraigPath

Latest ONS estimate is that 1 in 20 people in Croydon are infected. This is a huge number to be infected simultaneously especially for a region that was hard hit

Luis Marquez

TheTumultus

Let's make one thing clear: posts like these are disingenuous.Yes, 1% of 328M people would be approximate to 3.28M deaths assuming survival rates are accurate. The math is right.Current COVID

Andrew Bostom, MD, MS

andrewbostom

1/ Top German Covid expert pours scorn on Boris Johnson's ‘mutant strain’ claims, saying ‘politicians simply called it 70% more infectious’https://mol.im/a/9075233 2/ "Suddenly there's a figure out there, 70%, &am

Sarah Newey

sneweyy

At @WHO press conf @DrMikeRyan says WHO hasn't yet seen UK data suggesting that B.1.1.7 is more lethal (but these briefings happening simultaneously). He urges calm & says that a

plaforscience

plaforscience

The 4th round of Spain's big serologic survey has been aired in the expected childish commercial way: ONLY 10% infected, not enough for herd Immunity.It is INDEED much more to

Archimedes DVM 🦉Ω

Archimedes2020

Hi-Science time. Everyone is all worried about COVID variants. And they should be. RNA viruses mutate. A lot. Most mutations don't lead to anything. But some....well...they can be bad. However.....

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

New paper from @baym @BillHanage @LeeKShaffer. Examines benefit of "backward" contact tracing #COVID19 infectors of detected cases. Although basic idea is sound & used by Japan contact tracers, I'm a

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Earlier this week, I tweeted that the headlines around the antibody study from the UK were misleading, and that the study doesn't actually suggest that immunity is waning.https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1321093259351961600 I

K. Taylor, Ph.D., M.S.

KYT_ThatsME

I just saw the statement from Kayleigh, the press secretary said about repeatedly testing negative and now testing positive and some folks seem confused. So I guess it’s time to

Shooter McGavin

indoor_wildling

• If a teacher tests positive for COVID-19 are they required to quarantine for 2-3 weeks? Is their sick leave covered, paid?• If that teacher has 5 classes a day

WSCommentator

WScommentator

With all the current frenzy in the market, let’s talk about the Mectizan donation program run by Merck. I came across this while reading @aedmans book “Grow the Pie”. 1/

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

Imagine a country that has reduced their number of cases to only a few, say 5 infectious individuals, in a population of 5 million. A person might say: “The likelihood

Bloom Lab

jbloom_lab

Excited to contribute to this extremely important #SARSCoV2 study by @GreningerLab that provides first direct evidence that neutralizing antibodies are a correlate of protection against #COVID19 in humans! (1/9)https://www.medrxiv.org/conte

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