#Infection

Brett Mitchell

1healthau

My thread in response to an article in The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/ppe-unmasked-why-health-care-workers-in-australia-are-inadequately-protected-against-coronavirus-143751There are a few things that need to be teased out a

Joey

DrJoyeeta

Why we get false negative tests:The diagnosis of COVID19 using RT PCR method is made based on the threshold cycle (Ct) value. Ct is defined as the cycle number when

el gato malo

boriquagato

this is so close to meaningless as to be indistinguishable and this press release is so riddled with errors i question the authors seriouslyfirst, if you search for pretty much

Paul Waugh

paulwaugh

Your regular reminder that deputy chief scientific adviser Angela McLean said earlier this month that any changes to the rules should be based on "observed levels of infection... and not

Sam Coates Sky

SamCoatesSky

NEWSpeaking in the Welsh assembly, Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford confirms it was *Roche* that cancelled an agreement for thousands of tests in favour of NHS England. The Welsh government

Joe Pike

joepike

BREAK: Serious warning from scientists in new dump of SAGE docs. From 14 Oct:-In England, infection & hospital admission levels breaching Reasonable Worst Case planning scenario. -Daily deaths now at

Tressie McMillan Cottom

tressiemcphd

The small ones are usually bureaucratic. By the time a doctor tells you they should just “yank your uterus out to get it over with”? They’ve started conditioning you for

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Are we quarantining millions of people unnecessarily? Article by @apoorva_nyc on pitfalls of #COVID19 PCR for quarantine / public heatlth action / policy. *Disclaimer* the article is based on

Dr. Adams Waldorf

uwdrwaldorf

Can a #COVID19 infection during pregnancy lead to infection of the fetus?A mix of suspicious case reports and scientifically inaccurate articles have muddled this area.Actually, SARS-CoV-2 doesn’t even need to

Hus

HusnaaVhora

Tested positive for COVID-19. Wow. Got tested Wednesday the 21st and got a negative back Friday the 23rd. Felt symptoms of what I thought was a sinus infection starting 24,

Live Niramay

LNiramay

Cost of ignoring basic knowledge and relying too much on evidence based results.WHO may be held accountable for quick spread of corona Pandemic.Why?Bcz despite knowing that this virus spreads through

Juan Lopez-Mattei

onco_cardiology

#COVID19 #Tweetorial about infective endocarditis (IE) and TEE use in these times. @OKhaliqueMD @HeartOTXHeartMD @RonBlankstein @DocStrom @chiarabd @NitiCardio As most of us know, we are in a pandemic, with a

Jennifer Williams

JenWilliamsMEN

Seems like England is now under the scope of lockdown type things, aside from Leicester, bits of Leicestershire, Blackburn, Pendle, Bradford, other bits of W Yorkshire and E Lancs, all

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

This is a very provocative paper, but it's missing several key details. 1) We still have no idea how many virions are needed to lead to infection. Thus, even if

Nicholas Sarwark

nsarwark

What to do about coronavirus, a thread.Since the government is doing all the wrong things, here's a thread of all the things we should be doing to combat this epidemic.1)

Wendy Ager

WendyAnnAger

This is fine if you can keep a steady flow in the early stages, but infection spread is EXPONENTIAL with nothing curbing it atm in the UK - people are