#Infectious

Sinead Donohue

sinead_donohue

1. There is an understandable lack of awareness of #publichealth & #contacttracingContact tracing is NOT new. It's a tool that's been around for centuries. A small PART of what public

Pradheep J. Shanker

Neoavatara

Another great piece from @HelenBranswell :https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/20/the-months-of-magical-thinking-as-the-coronavirus-swept-over-china-some-experts-were-in-denial-about-what-was-to-come/ "On Jan. 5...Michael Osterholm, director of the

Hank Green

hankgreen

Just to clear this up...you don't just take vaccines just to protect yourself, you take them to protect other people. If you choose to not take a vaccine and then

Dr. Jennifer Provencher, wears a mask

jenni_pro

On the #wildlifehealth agenda today - COVID and country foods working group seminar! Today, we are learning about SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater with Dr. Banu Örmeci and Richard Kibbee from @Carleton_U

David Fink

DavidSFink

1/ Improper face mask use can be harmful.How to wear a face mask properly, a thread 2/ Whether or not there is a consensus on the preventative effect of a

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

Should guidelines be evidence-based?The PCR test works by duplicating the genetic material in a sample to a point where a specific genetic sequence is detected. Ct is the cycle threshold.

Adan Z Becerra, PhD

AdanZBecerra1

Corona has always been larger than just an infectious disease problem. Now that we are seeing early data on racial disparities, social epidemiologists must now step up to the plate.

seeemilyplay

ILOVETINY

CLASSIFYING COVID-19A look at the UK government's classification system for disease - A THREAD 1. The UK government has a policy for classifying certain diseases as 'high consequence infectious diseases'

daniel falush

DanielFalush

Thread. Will explain from first principles how China put itself in a good position to come out of lockdown, why it will be harder for the West and the broad

Simon Harris TD

SimonHarrisTD

1) I am an optimist & I really like highlighting progress the Irish people have made against #Covid19 but I have to say this - any narrative emerging that this

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

In many ways, this should be entirely obvious, but we now have strong evidence that social distancing results in decreased #COVID19 transmission rates. 1/7 Modeling analyses can estimate changes in

Jake Scott, MD

jakescottMD

As an ID doc who regularly sees #COVID19 patients & is responsible for starting & discontinuing isolation, a few comments: I understand why there’s distrust but Trump may actually no

Prashant Bhushan

pbhushan1

The GOI has no power to issue binding orders to States about Lockdown within States. Public Health is a subject in the State List. 'Preventing Inter State spread of infectious

Laura Bicker

BBCLBicker

South Korea is investigating a number of cases in Daegu where patients have tested positive after recovering from COVID19 and testing negative.They are trying to find out if this is

Infectious Diseases

InfectiousDz

Outbreaks are like a test where there are the same questions and the same answers each time1. Autocracies hide infections. Viruses just love this and multiply2. No one gets to

Alan Sepinwall

sepinwall

Me when Ruben Rabasa pops up in an episode of Better Things: https://twitter.com/briancgrubb/status/1253775415438647298 Also, the typewriter-mime teaser of this week's ep was one of my favorite kinds of Better Things