#Transmission

deonandan

deonandan

Getting a lot of questions about the dire predictions set forth by the federal COVID model to be released today. Some quick comments: (thread)1) As the adage goes, "all models

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

WHY MASKS DON'T WORK:Coughing is NOT the issue.Large droplets are NOT the issue. Breathing exhales MUCH MORE virus in fine aerosols than coughing. Finer aerosols bypass masks/nose & reach the

Stuart Lock

StuartLock

Going back early in the summer isn't a bet we are currently making, and we don't intend to given the timescale (and we've said so) but it obviously makes sense

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

When I ran these simple lagged case fatality rate (CFR) calculations last week I was surprised and troubled at how big the predicted numbers of deaths in the coming weeks

Jose-Luis Jimenez

jljcolorado

5/ c) Aerosols: don’t fall to ground quickly unlike drops, stay in the air tens of sec to hrs (depend on size). Infect by inhalation (or deposition onto eyes). Substantial

Lucy van Dorp

LucyvanDorp

Piecing together what we know of the ‘new #variant’. This has been confirmed by COG-UK (https://tinyurl.com/ybfsqurf ) and PHE (https://tinyurl.com/yacjerx6 ) as a lineage of #SARSCoV2 carrying a set of mutations including

David Zweig

davidzweig

MAJOR THREAD: This Israel article is going to alter the debate about schools. It has a lot of useful information, but its framing, and its title (which is the only

Marty Hopkins

MartyATX

Was going to try to lay out in non-technical language why our power went out early Monday & stayed off for those trying to decipher tweets/news, but w/o internet, I

Jonathan Ball

JonathanKBall

Must confess to getting increasing concern about #sarscov2 #vaccine #effectiveness claims. The real data we need to see is either prevention of infection or reduction in transmission risk in lee-vulnerable

Mahādevānginī

Mahadevangini

#TrikaSeriesŚiva Krōdhāgni Vega : Mahādeva's Anger• What is śiva's fury?When śiva is referred, words like nāśaka, parama vidhvaṃsaka, antaka, etc (which are denoting supreme destruction/ending/obliteration) are used to d

Dr. Ali Nouri

AliNouriPhD

1/The UK #SARSCoV2 variant reported to be 70% more transmissible harbors a set of mutations in the Spike protein––the part of the virus that touches the human ACE2 receptor and

Michael Wara

MichaelWWara

Just had time to read this article on the great new work from @JesseJenkins and his colleagues. I come away from it agreeing with Sue Tierney when she says the

Ben Cowling

bencowling88

Here is an update on the #COVID19 situation in Hong Kong, following from my thread last week https://covid19.sph.hku.hk/ (1/18)https://twitter.com/bencowling88/status/1288635016558178304 (2/18) We have seen daily case numbers decline

Muge Cevik

mugecevik

A lot of discussion recently about transmission dynamics, most of which are extrapolated from viral loads & estimates. What does contact tracing/community testing data tell us about actual probability of

Charlie Haynes

charliehtweets

Some good news: it looks like the Oxford vaccine may both substantially reduce transmission AND reduces symptomatic infections in people who've had just a single dose for 3 months -

Chris Bataille

bataille_chris

She said "infrastructure", which was obviously my cue for a thread on #industrialclustering, why it can make deep decarbonization of industry much cheaper, and why we need specific site planning

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