#Infection

Jacob T. Levy

jtlevy

Two things about the conservative memory editing that’s already afoot— “we supported the most policy-successful president of the modern era, too bad he was such a rhetorically self-sabotaging colorful character.”1/

Health Nerd

GidMK

The weirdest thing about the whole herd immunity through natural infection argument is that it's never happened ever for any disease long-term so it was always a wild idea for

Adrian Norris

adriannorris

In the Times this morning, a “government source” told @Smyth_Chris and @GregHurstTimes that Britain is testing “roughly twice as many people per head as France”. Let’s take a look. 1/8

ghost mom

radtoria

Ok so I’m gonna be super real for a bit in case it helps anyone else. My boob is killing me. I’d been having weird health issues for months and

Bill Ackman

BillAckman

A theory: It has been accepted scientific wisdom that the virus’ R0 is ~2.4 and the CFR between 1-2%. The data and common sense suggest to me that the R0

el gato malo

boriquagato

the latest push for masks has been as "source protection"it's not about you, it's about being considerate & not spreading COV to othersit's a great PR soundbite and virtue signal,

Forrest Maready

forrestmaready

In this thread, I'm going to present a collection songs, comics, and advertisements showing how no one really cared or worried about a #measles infection before the vaccine came out.

yankee w/ no brim fyodor🐀

fyodorlovesu

i’m certified CPR and i feel like you all should know if you go to one of these protests and you see someone who is unconscious and you don’t feel

Prof Shamika Ravi

ShamikaRavi

#DailyUpdate #COVID19India Total cases cross 150K, the growth rate of ACTIVE cases = 4.3% - so doubling every 16 days. Finally a slowdown in infection after a week of rising

Peter Jukes

peterjukes

Sadly, another blow to the herd immunity theory: 51 recovered coronavirus patients test positive again in South KoreaTesting, containment - that’s going to be the only way to stop the

Sangxa

sangxa

“On 9 March, a patient who had recently traveled to Europe and had symptoms of COVID-19 visited the emergency department of St Augustine’s, a private hospital in Durban, South Africa.”

David Fisman

DFisman

I’m putting this on social media with some reluctance but it’s important to provide a factual response both to the CMOH’s comments this morning and also to the open letter

Grant LaFleche

GrantRants

One of the lessons of Trump and co. getting #COVID19 is that it shows the limits of unfocused, widespread testing of anyone regardless if they show symptoms or not or

Empathetic Ent

Empathetic_Ent

There are now people in the United States confirmed to have the novel #coronavirus (#SARSCoV2) that causes #CoViD19. Individual states are just beginning to be able to conduct tests

Marisha Ray 🔸

MarishaRayLD

@Peston @BethRigby, in this situation an NHS Trust Board member would be expected to ask for evidence that care homes were further improving infection control.I wrote to the CQC (Care

Kate

Knhannah

What is epistemically *interesting* is that they are suggesting that we restrict the lives of, & place the burden of containment, on “the few” ie those members of at risk