#Infections

Tes

tes

How we got here, a thread (1/25) Before Christmas, owing to rising infection rates, Greenwich advised their schools to shut before the end of term – several councils later advised

Dr. Steve Easterbrook

SMEasterbrook

It's been a few days since I came home from hospital, so a good time to reflect on what it's like inside an Ontario Hospital during COVID-19. The nurses put

Sarah Mulhern Gross

thereadingzone

Every piece of media seems focused on this news from the CDC, but I wonder how many people have gone beyond the headline/Facebook post and read the early release? Let’s

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

How are you all holding up? Shall I tweet out a second set of papers? Or are you too stressed to pay attention? 1. This Lancet Global Health Paper is

Dr. Thrasher, jouRNAlist

thrasherxy

1. OK, I'm calling bs on "news" of "COVID parties"—college students TRYING to get COVID. It has all the failure hallmarks of moral panic, Chomsky's 4th filter of manufactured consent

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

We’re in a new year and we have also entered a new phase of this pandemic. So I thought I’d start off the new year with a quick catch-up thread

Lara 😷 #COVIDisAirborne

Iamgoingtosleep

List of activists fighting for good ventilation SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted through the air.The higher CO2 level, the more we are sharing our air.So, stay safe, wear a well-fitted mask and

Kevin McKernan 🙂

Kevin_McKernan

When respected Scientists resign over the false narrative... Take notice... and thank them.Google Translated Letter fromProf. Dr. Thomas Aigner, Department of Geosciences, University of Tuebingen, Sigwartstrasse 10,D-72076 Tuebingen Germany

Bloom Lab

jbloom_lab

In new work, we show a human coronavirus evolves to escape neutralization by antibody immunity (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.17.423313v1). Specifically, we studied the historical evolution of the common-cold CoV-229E to l

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

So you may have heard concerns about the mink variant of #SARSCoV2 that was discovered in Denmark and is leading to the decision to cull all farmed minks in the

Karam Bales

karamballes

Johnson: The new strain is particularly prevelant in London and areas of the South EastHancock: Infections in students are driving transmission in LondonAny bet failure to tackle transmission in schools

(((Howard Forman)))

thehowie

My hot take from weekend data in 1 thread (see below for details): Positive rate flat to trending lower; cases flat; hospitalizations are declining, from a near-record peak; deaths are

Jeremy Gans

jeremy_gans

Curfew decision now up: http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/vic/VSC/2020/722.html. "The Curfew was a major restriction of human rights and liberties of the free people of Victoria. No instance of a curfew being imposed by

Tom Elliott

tomselliott

Starting a thread of deaths resulting from Covid quarantines. 1) NHS Scotland sees hundreds die after hospitals keep patients on waiting lists as Covid is prioritized 2) In Bay Area,

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

FANTASTIC NEWS—A potential vaccine for multiple sclerosis is now within sight on the horizon! And it’s an mRNA vaccine by BioNTech, maker of the Pfizer #COVID19 vaccine. Study in mice

Mel Conway

conways_law

Here I will demystify “emergence” and make it utterly concrete.Most people, if they think about it at all, regard emergence as a vague, “woo-woo” concept that philosophers and mystics deal

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