#Presymptomatic

Wille 🇸🇪🇫🇮🇬🇧🇨🇭

wfaler

Swedens strategy has been that of a drunken gambler going all in from day 1.Even with little knowledge of the virus it was reckless, let’s look at why: asymmetric risk:Even

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

We need to give people the right *intuition* on how this pathogen transmits—including its airborne spread—along with the rules. The cut-offs (6 feet etc.) aren't binary and the mitigations stack

Andrew C Ahn

AndrewCAhn2

Part 6: COVID and OverdispersionIn Part 5, we talked about epidemiological implications of overdispersion.In this section, we explore potential CAUSES of COVID-19 overdispersion1/https://twitter.com/AndrewCAhn2/status/1344792823204360192 1:

Alex Washburne

Alex_Washburne

My ideal COVID pandemic:China: Folks, there’s a virus, we’re going to be trustworthy and transparent, and we’ll need all the help we can get.World: Shit, virus sucks. Can we stop

Amit Arya

AmitAryaMD

Today, Anita Quidangen, a PSW working in LTC, received the first dose of the #CovidVaccine in Ontario. To ensure the maximum impact of the vaccine, we also need to address

Cara Brook

caraebrook

Excited to share our pre-print on optimizing #COVID19 control with asymptomatic surveillance testing, an inspiring collaboration with the #UCBerkeley SARS-CoV-2 testing lab @igisci. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.12.2023087

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Read this story and weep. This, after masks, is the biggest failure—both scientific and communication—of the pandemic in Western nations: the airborne nature of the pathogen. CDC changed this guidance

Jason Abaluck

Jabaluck

My experience was:a) The med community was *terrible* on masks as of late March -- people I spoke with insisted, "We can't recommend something that wouldn't be approved by the

Maria Van Kerkhove

mvankerkhove

Household Transmission of #SARSCoV2: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysisInteresting paper - a few highlights (taken directly from paper) - worth a read https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2

Dr Clare Craig

ClareCraigPath

Where's the evidence for asymptomatic spread? Chinese publications are major outliers on this subject in the scientific literature and these papers have distorted the evidence Scientific reviews from reputable institutions

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

Our group's household secondary attack rate meta-analysis has gained traction, but not for the reasons I'd hoped for. We did not conclude "no asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic spread" of SARS-CoV-2. A

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

A few thoughts on these interpretations, that appear to suggest (with caveats) that schools in England haven't necessarily contributed much to transmission. The evidence presented here does not necessarily support

Ashley Weis

AshleyWeis4

THREAD: C19 Mask Mandata with Videos of people fed up1 of 5What CDC, WHO and other corrupt orgs don't want you to know..https://web.archive.org/web/20201228015353/https://alachuachronicle.com/university-of-florida-researchers-find-no-as

zolani simayi

zsimayi

Let me help you with this my friend. There's plenty of evidence. Your favourites, who like to block me, must not be lazy to read widely.Assist you and other who

David Fisman

DFisman

So sickkids is doing a study to try to figure out whether masking is harmful in kids??There are 10,000 important kid-related questions for COVID and this is their research focus?I

Whitney R. Robinson

WhitneyEpi

1/ Maybe it’s my #epitwitter bias, but I get frustrated by the outsized attention these hospital-based viral load comparison studies (kids vs adults) get. And interpreted as children as a

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