#Transmission

James Macbeth Dann

edmuzik

was listening to the nine to noon politics slot from Monday, and probably daydreaming cos it was pretty boring and quite nasty but anyway, I digress. Was thinking about Megan

Caitlin Rivers, PhD

cmyeaton

At the national level, we are clocking case counts reminiscent of April. This is bad news - we are headed in the wrong direction. In 3 of the last 5

AJ Kay

AJKayWriter

This winter, we've seen sparks of public acknowledgement that knee-jerk pivots away from pre-2020 epi/med/public health principles were very costly mistakes.And we ignored what we knew b/c some thought it

Tory Fibs

ToryFibs

Thread. Nothing pre-planned here just some preliminary thoughts on the dataset I’ve built showing 643 UK Schools with Coronavirus infections. Apologies in advance if it lacks coherency. Just thought it

_gabrielShapir0

lex_node

1/ "The U.S. will get outcompeted for crypto as other jurisdictions adopt crypto-friendly regs."As I said for years, it's the opposite--the rest of the world's crypto regs will become more

Stefan Simanowitz

StefSimanowitz

1) Ystdy, in order to explain what the PM had really meant when he said care homes "didn't really follow the procedures", No.10 said "the extent of asymptomatic transmission wasn’t

Whitney R. Robinson

WhitneyEpi

.@NYTimes has done great data journalism on #SARS_CoV_2, filling gaps left by an incompetent US federal response but their recent coverage re: schools is tipping towards sensationalism & divergence from

Ruth Armstrong

DrRuthAtLarge

What this article says about precarious work makes much sense. The whole thing raises other issues for me too... 1/nhttps://twitter.com/mariemcinerney/status/1329924852833157120 Calling someone a liar, and the cause of a statewide

Tacit Subtext

TSubtext

“Are either/both more transmissible? I don't think we know for sure yet, but scientists in the UK seem to believe there are indicators of increased transmission in that variant. We

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Matter-of-fact recitation of the horror in Manaus from @DrMikeRyan:“ICU occupancy right now in Manaus is 100% over the full last two weeks.This is a health system under extreme pressure.”More than

Alfredo Gomes

mindgomes

Care for Newbornshttps://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/caring-for-newborns.html “the extent and clinical significance of vertical transmission, which appears to be rare, is unclear”“For example, HIV can be a vertically transmi

Niall Conroy

NICU_doc_salone

Just some of the things that all the contact tracing teams in the world can’t do in an outbreak....assess whether the case is infectious, or when they were infectious -assess

Nathan Lo

NathanLo3579

1/N *Our new pre-print study now posted* What is the best #COVID19 testing strategy when traveling? We find pre-travel testing reduces risk of being infectious on airplane by ~87%, but

Jeffrey Barrett

jcbarret

Out today: two academic publications (not yet peer reviewed) that formally test whether the new B.1.1.7 variant is more transmissible. Both conclude yes, about 50% more. First, a pre-print

Robert Peston

Peston

I was puzzled by Jonathan Van Tan’s comment that we don’t know whether the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine will prevent transmission of Covid-19 even if - as claimed - it has 90%

Dominik Mertz

DocDominik

Thread on my thoughts around tightening lock-down measures (thread below). Summary: a plea for a regional/local approach based on the best data available, considering a hierarchy of needs, and with

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