#Virus

bouvard

bouvard38829538

Anyone who says that one country or jurisdiction is “doing better” than another regarding COVID is being dishonest, for the simple reason that it’s not over yet. Nor has anyone

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

I have been working on pandemic outbreaks for 15 years.There is a misunderstanding of the difference between the response in much of the West, versus successful countries (including New Zealand

Aris Katzourakis 💙 (for UCU NEC)

ArisKatzourakis

[MEDIUM THREAD] On the topic of covid becoming an endemic virus. You hear this a lot; sometimes in response to critiques against strategies of elimination, sometimes just as a statement

Jillian Hurst

hjillianh

SARS-CoV-2 Infections Among Children in the Biospecimens from Respiratory Virus-Exposed Kids (BRAVE Kids) Study | medRxivhttps://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.18.20166835v1 A prospective cohort study evaluating #SARSCoV2 exposure

Amir Attaran

profamirattaran

The UK says it has detected a more infectious, faster-moving viral mutation. So why doesn’t Canada have a travel ban on the UK starting RIGHT NOW while this is investigated,

The Daily Mao

TheDailyMao

Actually, when the history of the New Cold War is written, they will remember Matt Pottinger as the DNSA who ran America's initial COVID response and focused 100% of his

Helen Branswell

HelenBranswell

1. An #Ebola thread:@WHO has put out an update on the new cases in DRC, in the part of the country where the 2018-2020 North Kivu & Ituri outbreak took

mindfulhealthiskey

mindfulhealth1

A bit of med science y’all?Chicken pox is a virus. Lots of people had it, and probably don't think about it much once the initial illness has passed. But it

Vincent Glad

vincentglad

1/ L'Asie et l'Europe ont tous deux passé la première vague et sont maintenant dans la gestion de la cohabitation longue avec le virus. On observe deux stratégies diamétralement opposées

Julia Hartley-Brewer

JuliaHB1

Just 377 healthy people under 60 have died of Covid. That's not a typo. There are no zeros missing. 377. Yes, that's sad but we have locked down an entire

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

This @nytimes page is really useful for explaining how each of the leading vaccines work. If you are in the US, most likely you will be offered the Moderna or

Dr Sarah Taber

SarahTaber_bww

#NCpol update: local politics is bungling state-level COVID measuresThe state gave out funds for local governments to pay for homeless folks to stay in HOTELSand our local homelessness office is

Dermot Looney

dlooney

Let’s be clear about what happened 4 weeks ago. Govt were advised by NPHET not to try to reopen hospitality plus retail etc as well as allowing family visits.They chose

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

Waiting for BidenWe’re waiting. Waiting for the leadership that will allow us to live our lives again. We have been living with COVID for so long, it often feels like

Jodi Click

singoffpitch

1/12: I’m on day 17 of COVID-19. Still on oxygen and fluid infusions. Still running a high fever, coughing nonstop, & working to breathe. Thought I’d give a summary of

Austen Allred

Austen

Sometimes I feel like all of Twitter is looking at different data than I am Cases are going up, but they’ve been going up for more than a month as

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