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Kurt "Masks Save Lives" Eichenwald

kurteichenwald

Every few days, to keep family/friends informed on scientific info to help keep them safe, I check latest Covid research. Today's check, while the results were largely expected, was devastating.

Brumby

the_brumby

1.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eci.13484 “there is no evidence that more restrictive nonpharmaceutical interventions (“lockdowns”) contributed substantially to bending the curve of new cases in England, France, Germ

Ousermaâtrê

MrWsrmaAtra

Imho this thread (while it provides useful data) is a good example of a common pitfall in covid discourse: extreme utilitarianism / focus on numbers with no regard for what

Katarina Braun

KATarinambraun

So excited it's finally in print! We worked hard to characterize patterns of #SARSCoV2 transmission in Wisconsin this past spring. Check out what we found here@GageKMoreno @KasenRiemersma @tcflab @dho 1/https://twitter.com/nresearchnews

Trisha Greenhalgh 😷 #CovidIsAirborne

trishgreenhalgh

1/Thread on objections to face coverings for the general public. See this tweet for a longer lay summary.https://twitter.com/trishgreenhalgh/status/1249743825637199875?s=20 [Mute thread if you’ve had enough on this topic.] 2/Also draws on

Fabien Offner

fabienoff

S’il fallait encore des signes du durcissement du pouvoir en #Guinée. Thread Le 10 février, les avocats d’Ousmane « Gaoual » Diallo, Etienne Soropogui, et des autres membres de l’UFDG

WeThePeople

happyshinyrobin

Post from a Portland OR resident, referring to his father-in-law:While I've been sort of following the ongoing events in Portland, I was floored by the information I recently received from

Chelsea Crooks

chelsea_crooks4

Excited to share my work to characterize African-lineage #Zika during pregnancy in NHP! Thread below with our primary findings:https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.30.405670v1.full.pdf+html First of all, these studies take a vil

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mamasaurusMeg

Sneezes are plosive events that send airborne Covid up to 10m in range. Why do we sneeze, and do sneezes in masks exacerbate airborne spread?Let’s discuss fiber friability as a

Isaac Bogoch

BogochIsaac

1/Masks....my least favourite topic of the #COVID19 pandemic.There is an argument to mandate these in Canada.I think (at this point in our epidemic) this is not the right approach...at least

Brumby

the_brumby

studies since March 2020. Below are 30 published papers finding that lockdowns had little or no efficacy (despite unconscionable harms) along with a key quote or two from each: 1.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eci.13484

Lane

HaygoodLaw

If there's anything to be gained by late 2020's political climate, maybe it is that we can finally have an adult conversation about sexuality and children. No, no, stop laughing.

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Big news today about another vaccine candidate. Take home messages:-It's safe-It's immunogenic (neutralizing antibodies and antigen-specific T cells)-It's a good size (n=1077 patients, 543 of whom got the vaccine vs

Logically India

LogicallyIN

A viral video doing the rounds on Whatsapp is full of false claims about COVID-19. We took a look at some of them. The video’s creator, Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury, calls

Stefan Marciniak

Prof_Marciniak

The new “Kent” strain of SARS-CoV-2 (officially named VUI 202012/01 for Variant Under Investigation, year 2020, month 12, variant 01) was identified as have multiple spike protein mutations1/n These include

Dr. Richard Corsi

CorsIAQ

1/ Ventilation of Schools. My experience working with public school districts for more than two decades is that classrooms are, in general, woefully underventilated (and that's before COVID-19 times!). Others

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