#Infected

Andrew Lee

andrewleedr

Normally I enjoy the high standards of journalism in @guardian . Not today as disappointed with misleading headline that suggest infections are spreading fastest in children. It'll worry parents/teachers &

Emilia C Skirmuntt 🦇🧬🦠

ESkirmuntt

(Thread about COVID vaccines) More and more countries are rolling out their vaccination programmes. It is an amazing triumph of science that we have been able to efficiently introduce vaccines

david oliver

mancunianmedic

A short thread about hospital bed pressuresThis may surprise some people outside the healthcare bubble but for a population of c 60 million, England (pre-pandemic) only had just over 100,000

Burhan

tametanias

This situation is more dangerous than it looks. There is a huge crisis of authority here split among academically "verified" scholars and more traditionally verified scholars.The position being claimed is

brent richards

BrentRichards19

Why are some asymptomatic and others in the ICU with severe #COVID19 ?Here we provide updated pre-print evidence that a form of a protein derived from Neanderthals protects against #COVID19

Quentin Leclerc

QuentinLclrc

A few headlines popping up in the UK at the moment on "Supermarkets most common #COVID19 exposure location in England, data shows".Yes, the data does show this, but don't be

Nuala O Connor

DrNuala

Close contacts - what’s changed ? Only that you won’t be tested. You still must restrict your movements for 14 days to the spreading. If you develop symptoms

Derek Gatherer

DerekGatherer

After 1 week of #COVID19 #vaccination, the #UK is closing in on 500,000 doses given. You might not think this is much given a total population of 67 million, but

Dr. Lisa Iannattone

lisa_iannattone

Why do aerosols and droplets cause so much drama? A thread It really all stems from a long-standing error in the medical literature on the size of droplets: Particles

Brumby

the_brumby

SCHOOL THREAD So, R. Weingarten, President of the AFT and future recipient of TIME’s inaugural Worst Person of the Year award, is out gloating about how the new CDC school

Vanessa Gray

VanessaGray158

I have been keeping a log of articles of deaths of elderly after the vaccine. No doubt zero questions will ever be asked about whether there was a link between

Anup Malani

anup_malani

I find discussions of herd immunity thresholds frustrating. Herd immunity (which I'll define as a current reproductive rate < 1) depends on policy & behavior. It is NOT an absolute

Tim Cook

doctimcook

As COVID19 rates start to increase this article might interest those who've not read it. Relevant well beyond anaesthetists and intensivists.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anae.15220 Important to understand how risk changes

Edal

edalmaxwell

"Sweden never aimed at herd immunity", a thread (1/n) Herd immunity in April/no, in May/no, in June/no, when the last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the Lonely Mountain

Marion Koopmans

MarionKoopmans

Wow factor paper of the week: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.18.388819v1.full#ref-12Loss of taste and smell is a key symptom of COVID-19. This group studied infection of olfactory bulb sensory neural cells from nasal mucosa

Moira Váně

moirarvane

Evidence is my wheelhouse. But evidence is not the end all be all. It's important for court, but it's not important in other contexts: "In 2003 Ontario suffered through the

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