#Transmission

Stephen Reicher

ReicherStephen

Four times we have delayed lockdown measures and so made the problem worse.And up to now we have compounded that by doing nothing to improve our general pandemic management during

Gupta Lab, Cambridge

GuptaR_lab

Our analyses on the emergence and transmission of novel SARS-CoV-2 variants with deletions H69/V70 in Spike protein. We identified an increase in the frequency of SARS-COV-2 sequences with the H69/V70

Daniel Leifer, MD

LeiferMd

I feel like I'm shouting into the void. We have a catastrophe looming within weeks, as the mutant strain takes hold in the US. The window is closing to vaccinate

Linn Marie

Pennamiriel

I keep seeing posts asking why/how people can possibly choose not to wear masks, why they can be so callous and careless about others' health and well-being. The only answer

Stuart Ritchie

StuartJRitchie

A related (and underdiscussed) lesson is that some people just absolutely love conformity. What else could explain all the doctors/academics getting behind the 100% definite "masks don't work" stuff in

Charles Tallack

CharlesTTHF

The COVID-19 vaccine hopefully marks the beginning of the end of the pandemic. As the vaccine can’t be given to everyone immediately, the govt's advisers, the JCVI, have set out

Lizanne Foster

MovingParadigms

Being calm & kind will support mental health but it's truth that will keep us safe. To that end, a few question suggestions for @richardzussman: What data, exactly, shows that

Divia Eden

diviacaroline

QTing my reply so I can thread some thoughts I keep having about the relationship between contagiousness and severity of diseases. I have no background in any of this and

M.P.

OmanReagan

Q: So why can't we just use a vaccine-only strategy where we just keep going like we have been and wait to get vaccinated? That's what the Biden administration is

Jasnah Kholin - ACAB

wanderer_jasnah

hi, friendly neighbourhood virologist here.Hong Kong, let's talk about this graph. & the upcoming weeks.don't worry. i'm not here to shame anyone. that's not how i work. it's CNY soon,

Dr. Anne Jefferson 🌧🏡

highlyanne

Newly accepted paper in Geophysical Research Letters claims that "Urban Vegetation Slows Down the Spread of Coronavirus Disease (COVID‐19) in the United States" https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020GL08928

Schültzie

muffnbear

I reject this.Covid has made everyone insane. For instance, we are out last night at a place that seats about 80 and we were one of two tables.Even at half

Alasdair Munro

apsmunro

I've seen suggestions that the idea younger children might be less susceptible to infection with #COVID19 is a "myth", based on children just not being tested enoughThat is untrue!Whilst it's

Jaclyn Ferreira 😷

jaclynmacrae

Thread regarding some of the science being used to inform our COVID #bced pandemic response in BC - important to note that references are all to influenza (now also considered

Whitney R. Robinson

WhitneyEpi

Of the threads I’ve read exploring the causes of falling rates of #SARSCoV2 infections (and hospitalizations and deaths), I like this one best 1/https://twitter.com/nataliexdean/status/1362100680492601350 2/ Even if Rt transmission rates

Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺

fascinatorfun

The second graph of interest is seeing how the cumulative age distribution of cases has changed. Of course, in part this is due to changing testing capacity, criteria and who

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