#Transmission

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) Although #COVID19 hospitalizations continued to decline in Montreal and across the province on Thursday, outbreaks ramped up across different sectors, a sign that transmission of the highly contagious #coronavirus

Kelly Hills

rocza

So piggybacking on @SaskiaPopescu's excellent thread here, which EERILY mirrors an email I sent Thursday - and she and I did NOT talk about the topic recently - I wanna

Cllr Jon Burke

jonburkeUK

1/ Despite various bouts of bubonic plague ravaging The Pale (the area around Dublin) and various other towns under the control on the English crown throughout the 1300s - some

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

Dr Raghib Ali FRCP(UK)

drraghibali

During lockdown, I will be writing a series of threads on minimising the harms of the second wave and of the second lockdown.Part 2. We must put our children first

Pradheep J. Shanker

Neoavatara

Again, don't tell me @WHCOS is science based.He isn't. This is all about partisanship. Not science.https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1354234528332656642 The media, who screamed 'PARTY OF SCIENCE!' every single day last

Adam Hamdy

adamhamdy

1. Dr. James Hildreth, CEO of Meharry Hospital and adviser to Nashville Mayor John Cooper, makes a powerful statement about schools and airborne transmission. A MUST WATCH example of excellent

Healthcare Infection Society

HIS_infection

Updated COVID-19 IPC guidance: Added COVID-19 risk pathways to support returning services. Main changes in thread below. (1/7)https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-infection-prevention-and-control Main changes1.

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Airborne transmission—Look how a South Korean high school student became infected after **5 minutes of exposure from >20 feet away**. We cannot keep using the 6-feet (2 m) standard of

Jeremy Farrar

JeremyFarrar

Finland detects UK & SA variants. As immune pressure on virus grows, evolution will speed up & any variants that escape that immunity will have selective advantage. Both variants huge

Alasdair Munro

apsmunro

Here is a good lesson in basic epidemiologyThis data is difficult to interpret in a number of ways:1. There is no denominator, either of institutions or populations2. It counts the

David Steadson 🇦🇺🇸🇪🇪🇺🌍

DavidSteadson

Sweden's Covid catastrophe in context - Did we squander a Nordic advantage?Anders Tegnell has recently become fond of claiming that Sweden isn't unusual in our high death toll - that

Derek Thompson

DKThomp

I wrote about “Hygiene Theater”—how restaurants, gyms, and subways have wasted millions of dollars on fancy cleaning plans to defeat a mostly airborne plague and made Americans more confused and

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) Quebec on Wednesday declared the sharpest daily increase in #COVID19 outbreaks in weeks, 31, with most of the new clusters arising in schools. In this thread, I will focus

Shweta Bansal

bansallab

With the rollout of SARS-CoV2 vaccines imminent, many are asking about the scientific evidence behind prioritization strategies. Here, I summarize the evidence from our past work (on influenza) that can

Informema

informema

A new CDC weekly COVID survey and a whopping 14.5% of school-aged children tested positive, a much higher rate than other age groups. School-aged children (5-17) have now had the

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