#Transmission

CommonsBC

commonsbc

Did you know: your hydro bill will include your share of the cost of running electricity to fracking operations in the gas fields in NE BC? Electricity doesn't make fracking

Aaron Richterman, MD

AaronRichterman

Here is one more look at Supplementary Table 18 from the Moderna NEJM paper, the best direct data we have on this question. Follow me here for a moment

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

Tuning in now to hear about retrospective contact tracing. The goal -- interrupting chains of *clusters*!w/ Hitoshi Oshitani, @kj_seung, @zeynep https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/retrospective-contact-tracing-how-states-can-investigate-covid

Dr. Deena Hinshaw

CMOH_Alberta

Here is a summary of today’s #COVID19AB update: Over the last 24 hours, we have ID’d 461 new cases & completed 12.3K+ tests. Our positivity rate stands at about 3.9%.

Jenn Dowd

drjenndowd

1/ Did the Sturgis bike rally cause 266,796 new cases of COVID-19? Probably not. Lesson- Beware viral studies that confirm your pre-existing beliefs so satisfyingly. (Long) thread: https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/sturgis-rally-covid19-

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

Very interesting preprint on epidemiology of B.1.1.7 (or the 'Variant of concern' - VOC) in SE England. Have not fully digested but there are some important take homes 1/n https://cmmid.github.io/topics/covid19/reports/uk-novel-vari

John Kemp

JKempEnergy

POWER GRID FAILURES never have a single cause. Grids should be managed conservatively with multiple layers of protection and reserves. Even if there is a single proximate cause, such as

Leora Horwitz

leorahorwitzmd

Oy. Schools. This is really tough. As we debate risk/benefit, understanding whether schools are a major source of transmission to the community (and high risk people) is the billion dollar

Dennis R

DennisR38458475

Thread: Time and time again, we find ourselves having to debunk the same flawed arguments regarding #SARSCoV2 impact on children,Including mortality and transmissibility. I will say I do respect @NBSaphierMD

Daniel Hemel

DanielJHemel

The liability provisions in McConnell’s “HEALS Act” do not reflect a serious attempt to address problems with the tort system. This is pure political posturing (thread) 1/ I say this

PANDA - Pandemics ~ Data & Analytics

PanData19

Out damn spot! 1/12 The President of South Africa appeared on national TV to tell some lies in support of perpetuating destructive Covid malarkey. Out came the old chestnut that

Andrew Morris

ASPphysician

This is real and is not related to school transmission.Let's look at what Ontario COULD, SHOULDN'T, and SHOULD do (thread):https://twitter.com/celliottability/status/1304424559840555009 1. It COULD just wait and see what happens. It

Dear Pandemic

DearPandemic

1/ Q: What’s going on with the #Oxford/#AstraZeneca #vaccine & one-dose strategy in Britain?A: The Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccine was granted emergency authorization & the British government has decided to give as

Michael (@HegKong@gab.com)

HegKong

Vaccine Passport thread:CommonPass is a digital ‘health passport’ initiative by the World Economic Forum and The Rockefeller Foundation, merging your health records with your ID document and seeking to make

Michael Gerth

gerth_micha

Our new preprint is now live! Fun collab w @Mateos_Lab @BrunoLemaitre3 @JGriffinScience @sio_stef @TheLadybirdman and others. We monitored evolution of Spiroplasma symbionts in Drosophila over 10 years. We found that

Erin Kissane

kissane

"The Plague Year" is so monumental that it has taken me weeks of scraps of time to read it carefully—I finally printed out all billion pages so I could focus.

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