#Transmission

Feeling great today on my ER shift:- hardly any new critically ill COVID cases- almost every patient I’ve seen is vaccinated with at least one shotAnd the good news keeps
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Starting a thread summarizing Coronavirus research.Disclaimer: I am not an epidemeologist and studies are being produced very quickly and on often sketchy and problematic data. I will try my best
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This herd immunity quote highlighted by @danwootton is hilariously flawed. Why? Because each year there are >700K live births in the UK. Herd immunity proponents forget a simple fact -
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In the past month, Tennessee has made incredible gains in the campaign against coronavirus. But we have so much to lose. This is a short thread about how it could
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1/ On the need for a **true multidisciplinary approach** to aerosol & droplet transmission (aka “the Godzilla thread”) 2/ This thread is offered constructively to point out a problem &
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Happy we are opening up testing and looking forward to hearing more details about the plan to guide testing and maximize benefit. Testing needs to be coupled with key communication
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SCOOP @MartineWonner annonce que le CDC Center of Disease aux USA vient de faire des excuses aux américains, que le masque ne sert strictement à rien, le virus circule par
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#COVID19| THREADImportant scientific update from the @TheLancet — one of the world’s oldest medical journals used by many epidemiologists I have spoken to for navigating COVID.*Ignore the political BS, read
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Karl Friston's model suggests that LSHTM/Imperial/Academy of Medical Sciences projections of numbers of deaths in a second wave are way too high. But a functioning ‘find, test, trace, isolate, support
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Quick thoughts thread I feel like writing it even if nobody reads this. I visited a shopping centre today and people who could potentially come across challenges in daily life
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1/ Aerosol scientists don't agree. What kind of consensus is that? Does the discipline who studies transport of particles through the air, NOT count for a "consensus" of which particles
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Had a very concerning chat with a hospital exec recently about preparedness for nCoV. US hospitals nowhere near ready for conditions like we're seeing in China. Neither are those in
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Many of you say this is the most brilliant thing you have read on the pandemic.Quite right. Everyone should read it and pass it on.Because it points to the key
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a thing about being “real” or “authentic” on social media: you can’t properly analyze this without accounting for the way in which the the medium itself distorts and shapes the
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1/Masks ARE political. They have no basis in science—except perhaps political science—and have ZERO impact on COVID deaths or cases. Pitched as no-cost interventions they are in-truth linked to incredible
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1/nI have noticed a flurry of 'us and them' tweets (great Floyd track BTW) around NHS Accredited labs versus uni labs and there roles and value in #COVID testing 2/n
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