#Infection

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

My discussion on the role schools play in transmission, and what needs to be done with @bbcworldservice - speaking with Paul Henley and panelists, @georginagodwin and @DomJermey. Please listen from

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

Recent estimates (including our analysis led by @timwrussell: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.12.2000256) have suggested 0.5–1% of COVID-19 infections may potentially be fatal overall. Some have interpreted this

Alan Keenan

akeenan23

Another Muslim victim of #COVID19 cremated against the wishes of her family. Disturbing but unsurprising reports of rising anger in community at #SriLanka government’s draconian cremation policy - esp humiliating

u221e

hdevalence

Cryptography specifications for Apple/Google's Bluetooth contact tracing system: https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/current/static/contact-tracing/pdf/ContactTracing-CryptographySpecification.pdf The key schedule is very si

Ciaran Jenkins

C4Ciaran

Did we learn the lessons of the first wave?Care homes in England 'under pressure' to accept COVID positive patients.I've been told 'it's a disaster waiting to happen.' Read on..https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status

Andre Watson 🧬💊💉

nanogenomic

We know that the SARS-CoV-2 virus has evolved to bind to the ACE2 receptor approximately 10x stronger than SARS-CoV-1. ACE2 also circulates in the blood. There are several mechanisms whereby

Tim Morris

bristimtom

A few of us at the @mrc_ieu have a preprint discussing collider bias with a focus on coronavirus research. We're of the opinion that collider bias is a big banana

Madelaine Hanson

MadelaineLucieH

Why do I have a problem with digital ID cards when 'FaCeBoOk oWns EvEryThINg?' Because I know what this looks like in real life and you should too.(thread) 1. Let's

David Gauke

DavidGauke

I’m surprised there’s not more discussion as to why London - the most densely populated part of the UK - now has the lowest levels of infection.More cautious behaviour? Fewer

The Lancet

TheLancet

NEW Research—First human trial of #COVID19 vaccine finds it is safe and induces rapid immune response: finding from a dose-escalation, single-centre, open-label, non-randomised, phase 1 trial https://hubs.ly/H0qMrl-0 Thread (1/3) Va

Esa-Pekka Pälvimäki

eppe

Onko tässä mitään perää, että CoV voi desaturoida nimenomaan sitoutumalla hemoglobiiniin? Ja jos, niin onko klorokiinin vaikutusmekanismi tähän sopiva ase? Tai jonkun muun mahd lääkkeen? @myllarni @MikkoKeranen https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_

Tisha Brown

MsTishaB

Just realised the government stopped their daily COVID briefings. So I’ll keep track of the daily infection rate via this thread. Mainly for my own curiosity. Stats come from here

Secret Teacher in Scotland

SecretTeachScot

There is lots of talk about pupils needing time to process the effects of lockdown teaching and learning, and the associated anxiety.I haven’t heard much talk of teacher recovery.But I

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ADavidHaleJoint

As a reporter, I have some big questions re:Penn State/myocarditis data:1.) What was the sample size?2.) When was the study done and how long after infection were tests completed?3.) Were

Jill Promoli

jillpromoli

We can have a conversation about travel restrictions, but all six of these MPPs have failed our city and region as they've voted against smaller class sizes, #PaidSickDays 20 times,

Matthew Moore

mattmoorek

In an extraordinary break with Germany’s strict adherence to bank holidays, a group of govt advisors have published their roadmap out of coronavirus lockdown today. On Thursday Merkel said she