#Respiratory

Lauren Pelley

LaurenPelley

U.K. government scientists say more-transmissible #B117 coronavirus variant may also increase death rate by 30 per cent, @guardian reporting.Teams compared death rates among those who tested positive for new variant

Laura Henderson

SixandLaura

1/ The k value, the dispersion of the R0 among cases, is low in SARS-cov-2, as it was in SARS 110-20% of cases cause 80-90% of new infections. *7/10 cases

Health Nerd

GidMK

A lot of people have been talking about it, so I thought I might do a bit of a thread on plausible reasons for the decline in COVID-19 cases in

Michael Lin, PhD-MD

michaelzlin

Here's a Christmas gift: Turkey says Sinovac's COVID vaccine is 91.25% effective. That's a prelim result based on

VoidSurf

VoidSurf1

The science:1. A Danish RCT with 6000 participants, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in November 2020, found no statistically significant effect of high-quality medical face masks against SARS-CoV-2

Sara Danner Dukic

saradannerdukic

It now appears the virus was in circulation long before we initially thought. A swab taken from a child in Italy in November of last year has tested positive for

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

So now we know London will join millions of others in T3Awkward questions1) How much difference do we really expect this to make in seven days from Wednesday when they're

Deepta Bhattacharya

deeptabhattacha

Tangent: this study estimates the natural inoculum at only a few thousand infectious viruses. https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/12/573/eabe2555 Other estimates using different methods have landed in the same ballpark. https://www.medrxiv.o

Dr MAJ

MAJalaplageMD

Let's talk #COVID numbers in #Lebanon:Assume 6.8M people in Lebanon (*frustrating that we don't know how many exactly)Let's go with 15% positive (crude number, just for proof-of-concept)Total = 1,020,000 casesAs

Olalekan Akindoju

Lekanakindoju

In the past few months, the Osun state government @StateofOsun has made efforts to promote the message of regular handwashing, but the failure to provide water and facilities in public

Bente Mikkelsen

MikkelsenBente_

1/14 Dear Richard, “all we have is silence” equally applies to deadly interplay b/ #COVID19 pandemic + #NCDs epidemic. #PLWNCDs are at heightened risk of becoming severely ill or dying

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

1/ The major #covid19 outbreak from @BrighamWomens where I work is now published in @AnnalsofIM — definitely worth a read. Phenomenally detailed work here from many smart people.The index patient

Gage Moreno

GageKMoreno

Our updated #SARSCoV2 in cats preprint is now available @ https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.16.384917v2.full.pdf+html this time with an emphasis on Spike H655Y! A (1/7)@KATarinambraun @tcfriedrich @dho I won't get into th

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

COVID Update September 9: I don't like writing COVID threads about Donald Trump.But sometimes there is no choice. Today there is no choice. 1/ Now we know Trump wanted to

Dr Sumaiya Shaikh

Neurophysik

COVAXIN Efficacy: A thread...n0 Q1: Is there a method to hypothesise the efficacy of COVAXIN when no data has been released?Q2: How is this efficacy enhanced & measured? Q3: Why

Mosley Gang 🎄

MosleyGang

A thread on how I think the CV19-crisis ends (atleast in the UK but applicable to most of the West):tl;dr UK Gov knows it fucked up and has been looking

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