#Transmission

Mary Grace Kosta

marygkosta

I have spent most of this year staying home. I’ve been lucky to be able to keep working and get a paycheque but not everyone has. I won’t be able

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

If the reproduction number drops below 1, an epidemic won't disappear immediately. But how many additional infections will there be before it declines to very low levels? Fortunately there's a

Paul A Sobotka, MD, FACC, FAHA

sobotka_paul

Consumer questions about COVID vaccines: 1) effectivness in all ages and and amongst those with co-morbidity, 2) duration of effectiveness, 3) prevent transmission of COVID virus, 4) any interactions exist

Prof. Akiko Iwasaki

VirusesImmunity

Top 10 most downloaded articles in 2020 includes our review in the @AnnualReviews Virology - “Seasonality of Respiratory Viral Infections” by @MiyuMoriyama et al! It’s free to download: https://arevie.ws/3aYt32Y Here

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

Those who found the concept of asymptomatic transmission suspect were right to be. Not saying it never happens. Am saying it’s implausible. Here’s why. To transmit, you need to have

Irfan Dhalla

IrfanDhalla

I just spent a few minutes reading about New Zealand and Covid-19 and thought I’d share a few observations.The big question is whether New Zealand will be able to 'eliminate'

𝗝.𝗠. 𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗥 #readoptimal

intelwire

Just thinking out loud here, but this is a familiar dynamic in religious movements, especially, but not exclusively, prior to the printing press, which imposed a certain amount of stability

Pradheep J. Shanker

Neoavatara

So since I am already getting heat...Let me stipulate that even before today, I 100% believed Trump downplayed COVID. That isn't a secret. He did so publicly at his press

Brent S. Sirota

BrentSirota

People who choose to believe in outlandish, violent conspiracy theories aren't victims. They aren't brainwashed. Every one of them has encountered countervailing opinions & evidence to the contrary, often from

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

New article on UK Variant: Multiple analyses confirm40-70% faster transmission (ratio 1.4-1.8) during time of high levels of social distancing.larger share of under 0-9 and 10-19 year oldsvery significant harmful

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

A few tweets on a topic that keeps coming up in discussion. There are many different types of vaccine efficacy - efficacy against infection, against transmission, against disease, and against

Karam Bales

karamballes

1/ Thread: Covid and Schools, how is it working out in my area which according to PHE has a low infection rate?A compilation of reports coming from my workplace reps

David Zweig

davidzweig

THREADMy daughter is quarantined for 10 days bc she had a class with a teacher on Friday who tested positive*All students and teacher were in masks *Windows were wide open

Michael Otsuka

MikeOtsuka

The UK government's response to concerns regarding airborne Covid-19 transmission in courtrooms is alarming. It indicates that they're ignoring an increasing body of evidence of such transmission. 1/10https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/ne

Helmi Zakariah, MD MPH

mohdhelmi

CMCO - of CLUSTERS, MITIGATION, CONTAINMENT and OBSERVATIONThere's a loss of context when we treat cases numbers like a scoreboard. For numbers to be comparable, it must be standardized by

Ben Kentish

BenKentish

Excess mortality figures released by @ONS today are very interesting. Top line: UK has the highest figures of all the countries looked at. Not good. But what's especially interesting is

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