#Infectious

Ann Raiho, PhD

annraiho

Dating an infectious disease modeler during a global pandemic. A thread! with @RJOidtman #COVID19 Sometime in January.Her: there’s been zoonotic transfer in Wuhan this week could be a really be

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PlaysTrumpCard

1/ NIH published study: N95 masks don't stop all 80nm or smaller virus, surgical masks much worse. (no scarves listed, my guess far worse)NIH published Electron microscopy studies of the

Tyler Larsen

TylerLarsenMD

1/ Does atelectasis cause post-operative fever?I occasionally hear atelectasis listed in the differential diagnosis for early post-op fever (EPF) but this idea has never made much physiologic sense to me.

Danny Rockett

SonRanto

Trump got some great care over at Walter Reed. But here's how it usually goes...I went into the Emergency Room last February with a still undiagnosed illness. I had a

Allan Maleche

MalecheAllan

1.Dear @MOH_Kenya @DrPatrickAmoth @susan_mochache @NTLDKenya in August 2010 you adopted a practice using the Public Health Act to take people with TB who had interrupted their treatment to prison for

Stonekettle

Stonekettle

Trump claiming doctors, nurses, and first responders are profiting from false COVID diagnosis. Wrong, of course. But, what if it was true? Republicans WANT medicine to be for profit. That's

Dena Grayson, MD, PhD

DrDenaGrayson

Preliminary data from a #coronavirus antibody study of 3,000 people in NY show a 13.9%(!) infection rate.NYC: 21.2%Westchester/Rockland: 11.7%Rest of NY: 3.6%@NYGovCuomo says the case-fatality rate may be 0.5%, but

Seyi Makinde

seyiamakinde

PRESS BRIEFING BY GOVERNOR SEYI MAKINDE, HEAD OF THE COVID-19 TASK FORCE IN OYO STATE, ON APRIL 25, 2020Good evening and thank you for joining me.We just finished the Oyo

💧Corporate Governance

CorpGovResearch

The webinar to #Anglicare #Newmarch responsible persons of #agedcare residents affected by the #covid outbreak is here. A long discussion thread follows. #agedcarerc #auspol @ScottMorrisonMP @albomp @greghuntmp @richardmcolbeck @bradhazzard @gladysb

Dr Fiona Rawle

FiRawle

Since this @nytimes article chose to only highlight the work of male scientists working on #COVID19, here are some of the outstanding #WomeninSTEM scientists doing amazing work. ht @jenheemstra @AcademicChatter

liz chatterjee

natterjee

New lockdown hobby: perusing the #envhist of pandemics. In honour of Passover, first up is Rinderpest—likely one of the 10 biblical plagues. This nasty little pathogen killed huge numbers of

Jake Walker

Jake_W

What I really want to know about #covid19 beyond the fatality rate:>R0: is it 2.7? 3? 5?>Hospitalization rate among infected>Temp/Perm disabling rate among infected.Many people don't realize that a disease

Honourable Media Africa™

HonourableMedia

ThreadEXACTLY 11 YEARS AGO:https://bit.ly/2RZhUoc Africa's Revolutionary Leader;then President of Libyaand Chair of the African Union H.E Col.Muammar Al-Gaddafi(1942-2011),Daringly spoke about Viruses,Vaccines,Vaccination and Viral

Siyanda Mohutsiwa

SiyandaWrites

In November, the @nytimes published an article about efforts in Asia to fight back COVID. They mentioned specifically 3 countries (Hong Kong, Korea and Japan) and outlined long histories of

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

Must read piece in the Medical Journal of Australia."Herd immunity" is a terrible idea, requiring 61% of pop. infected to protect remaining 39%.May be up to 9 undetected cases for

Detective Truth

DaFeid

1/17It's been 2 weeks now since NYT reported up to 90% false positive due to "cycle threshold settings".PCR cycle threshold topic is cruical.As tweets usually have just a half-time of