#Transmission

Melissa Sharpe

MelissaJSharpe

Today we had childcare for the first time in 3.5 months. I finally had some time to breath, so I wrote a letter to @CAgovernor to implore him to prioritize

Dr./Prof. Sarah Hörst

PlanetDr

Neat coauthor paper out today with an even more neat story behind it (1/?)https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S001910352030556X?token=481FA2C6909DDD5ED8316026A4D6BC93B1A8FD2668BC43A87FB435E52BD3AFFA5F919E84BF07F8BD0D48F97548A634E6 Whe

Miles Cobia, MD

neurooruen

My pregnant physician wife and I are currently COVID positive. We are currently quarantining with our 2 yo daughter who is likely also positive based on symptoms. We have both

Phil Kerpen

kerpen

The @MoCoCouncilMD will vote on @MontCoExec's restaurant shutdown order today. If they care about facts and science, they'll vote no. A few points: Hospital utilization is low according to the

Eric Crampton

EricCrampton

Me, at Newsroom, now ungated, on the need to keep improving border systems to keep the bug out. Otago's epidemiologists have had more than a few good ideas that bear

۞ Atlas ۞

DentesLeo

Imagine two or three of your best traits.Your absolutely most attractive characteristics.Not ones that exist, but ones that could exist.Ones that aren't exactly fantasy (Like being able to fly), but

The Lancet

TheLancet

NEW—No country is immune from health impacts of worsening climate change. Unless urgent action is taken, #climatechange will threaten global health, disrupt lives & livelihoods, & overwhelm health-care systems: 2020

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Longtime school closures cause major psychological harm to children. School closures also affect their education, future prospects in life and cause further inequality in society. The long-term economic harm of

TheRealSkriver'sWife

Cdmatthews1

@adriandix @bcndp @jjhorgan @realreporter @jheighton3 @ReneeMerrifiel3 @keithbaldrey @CTVVancouver @CTVNews @GlobalBC @cbcnewsbc @NEWS1130 @CKNW A theory about how BC can confidently say school aged transmission is low, while teachers and p

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

I've noticed people sometimes use 'herd immunity' to mean 'pathogen fades to zero and stays there' rather than the technical definition (i.e. R drops below 1 because of accumulated immunity,

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Fecal aerosols... 9 infections in 3 families due to vertically shared toilet drainage pipes + aerosols from pipes.To even prove it, tracer gas was released into drainage system of one

Xihong Lin

XihongLin

Our paper “Reconstruction of full transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in Wuhan” is online in Nature. We showed two key features of COVID: High transmissibility (R0=3.5) & high covertness(up to 87%

Ashleigh Tuite

AshTuite

I think sexually transmitted infection epidemiologists/network modelers probably have a lot of insight here and about why social circles/bubbles are so complicated. /1https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1287516065312829441 A lot of the ch

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

How are you all holding up? Shall I tweet out a second set of papers? Or are you too stressed to pay attention? 1. This Lancet Global Health Paper is

Adam squires

adsquires

The new COVID variant and how we should behave to be safe. tl;dr: it hasn't acquired resistance to anything; soap, distancing, masks and fresh air all still work; but we

Brandon Smithwood

BSmithwood

I have read @JesseJenkins's piece, @JulianSpector's write up of it. Having nerded out on this topic for several years now I just can't let this one go both b/c I

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