#Transmission

Rachel Cunliffe

RMCunliffe

What are working parents with school-age children meant to do? Take two weeks off work? Quit their jobs? Even if people are working from home, it's not a case of

Alasdair Munro

apsmunro

I have seen some repeated assertions about the evidence on #COVID19, children and schools recently which sound convincing, but unfortunately are falseIt is a sensitive and important topic, which is

Linsey Marr

linseymarr

Nearly tears of joy seeing new paper in medical journal with correct analysis and interpretation of aerosol transmission: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30323-4/fulltext See thread for summary of main poi

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

Tony Fauci says the US death toll is ‘going to be very disturbing’, even when you consider the 120k+ lives lost already. He’s right. I would optimistically estimate that the

Aaron Richterman, MD

AaronRichterman

Thankful to Singapore for surveillance systems that allow for the detailed studies required to truly assess the relative transmission risk of asymptomatic vs symptomatic cov-2 , which they find to

Sally McManus

sallymcmanus

A message to Sydney from Melbourne ---Five things that must be done NOW to stop Covid19 spreading which will save hundreds of lives, hundreds of thousands of jobs and avoid

Justin Lessler

JustinLessler

Our recent preprint in @medrxivpreprint with @QifangB @andrewazman @datcummings and others uses serological data to show how #SARSCoV2 entered and transmitted within homes in Geneva, Switzerland. Here are a few

Jose-Luis Jimenez

jljcolorado

1/ My current estimates on modes of transmission & mitigation measuresFrom work on this & talking to a lot of scientists, my thinking is evolving. I thought it'd be useful

Ash Sarkar

AyoCaesar

Talk of imposing a one hour exercise rule, or being able to exercise with one person from another household, is just theatre. It's not about suppressing transmission - it's about

Covidpath

covidpath

You guys want to see something wild?Check out the OpenTable activity trend (solid line) vs. estimated rate of transmission (dashed line) in NY, CA, TX. The curves between ‘change in

Adam Hamdy

adamhamdy

1. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, after today's thread on airborne transmission and schools, I thought it would be worth looking at the government's own advice

Kate Grabowski

KateGrabowski

I spoke with a relative in Pennsylvania this weekend who is employed in the service industry. This weekend she worked an event for 100 people. There was no social distancing.

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

Some COVID thoughts on this bright, beautiful Christmas Eve morning in London. Context: I am an expert in genetics and computational biology; I know and chit-chat with experts in viral

Michael Schwandt

MichaelSchwandt

If anyone tells you that massive and deadly #COVID19 outbreaks in #LongTermCare are "inevitable," please tell them otherwise. We've managed 17 LTC outbreaks in Vancouver Coastal Health and have developed

Allen Cheng

peripatetical

SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients that don't have symptoms. It's complicated. A thread. Data suggest that viral load does start to increase and is maximal slightly before the onset of symptoms,

Aaron Richterman, MD

AaronRichterman

Interesting poll. Selection/response bias aside, majority picked a low probability, but 40% still thought there was 10+% prob that vaccines will not substantially prevent transmission. This is why I have

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