#Transmission

Anne Huang| 黃安安

drannehuang

1/ False promise of mass testing:False reassurance due mass testing can lead to unintended community transmissions, *particularly* if exposed contacts (or cases) do not adhere to strict quarantine (or isolation)

Dr. Ali Nouri

AliNouriPhD

HVAC professionals: viruses like SARS-2 stay airborne and can travel long distances in rooms & air ducts of ventilation systems. The Assoc. of European HVAC professionals proposes, esp. in ‘hot

Stephen Donnelly

DonnellyStephen

I'd like to give answers to very reasonable questions coming to me from people in Kildare, Laois and Offaly today. This is a serious situation, with people genuinely worried, and

Sarah Mulhern Gross

thereadingzone

Can we take a second to look at the language being used when we discuss schools? When we say we need to “reopen schools” what does that mean? Many schools

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Know very tempting to feel nervous about variants. Please don't: 1) RNA viruses do mutate and those more fit spread more readily; 2) SARS-CoV-2 has much lower mutational rate than

barrysmyth

barrysmyth

Things are pretty grim at the moment. Ireland's 7d rolling average of confirmed #covid cases, per 100k of population, leads the world after we were at the other end of

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

Canada could be the next Australia\1@RobertGreenhill link:https://global-canada.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/The-Potential-For-Getting-to-Zero-in-Canada-Version-2.1.pdf The TANZANC (Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Atlantic & Northern

Dr. Nelly Yatich

YatichN

LONG THREAD: RE-OPENING OF SCHOOLS.In general, children with COVID-19 are less likely to have severe symptoms than adults. They often experience an asymptomatic infection. Children, particularly those < 14 years

Dr Greg Kelly

drgregkelly

How me and 25 000 of my friends helped to save our country from #COVID19And how you can too (a thread) Obvious to all Europe, US & many others facing

Michael Schwandt

MichaelSchwandt

Nice interview, @sabrinawong88! There are many questions on ideal settings for COVID-19 rapid testing (aka point-of-care tests, aka rapid antigen tests, or RAT, which I’ll use to save characters here).

🇺🇸 BRIAN FRALEY 🥃

Dailytakes

1. Swapping indoor air with people with whom we do not live is avoidable for a lot of us for the next several weeks. It doesn’t take a politician to

Louis du Plessis

laduplessis

After many months of hard work our analysis of the lineage structure and importation dynamics of the first wave of the #SARSCoV2 epidemic in the UK is out in @ScienceMagazine

Wes Pegden

WesPegden

Quick thread on evidence being presented that schools are main drivers of transmission (and here: primary aged children just as much!).There really are papers claiming to show some of these

Mine Altinli

mine_altinli

Check out our new paper @molecology https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mec.15609?af=Ron #wolbachia interactions with an #insect-specific virus in #mosquitoes in natural populationsMany thanks to co-authors:@sebastianlequime, @C

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

Happy Tuesday! The latest focal S:N501 build is now updated with sequences from 11 Jan.There are 101 new sequences in the 501Y.V1 (B.1.1.7 #b117) & 501Y.V2 variants.Additionally, I'll include some

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

Briefing today- BJ appears to say that rise in cases in England is a collective responsibility & people need to take the rules seriously. This isn't an issue of people

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