#Outbreaks

Dr Vyom Sharma

drvyom

1/ Victorian lockdowns continue largely because #covid19aus transmission persists in health/aged care.Excluding these, our 14 day avg daily cases = 2.9If only we knew these settings were drivers of transmission,

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

1/ Those who earned big platforms from #covid19- your silence on racism will be deafening.For those who see #covid19 & the #protests2020 as separate— they are not. They are deeply

David Ortega

dlortega

China’s food markets, wildlife trade and origins of #COVID19: A threadAs a PhD student, I spent countless hours in #China’s wet markets gathering data on consumer behavior and #food safety.

Courtney Theriault

cspotweet

NEW: - 662 new COVID cases in AB on 12938 (5.11% +)- 5 new deaths, up to 323- 140 in hospital (+10), 25 in ICU (+7)- 5172 active cases (+251)#yeg

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Important (but not surprising) studyRapid Antigen tests may be MORE, not less, accurate to detect VIABLE virus (i.e. transmissible virus) compared to the more sensitive PCR.But how?1/https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.02.202057

Danny Boy

Care2much18

One-stop thread for my sanity on how I view certain issues that crop up, as opposed to Groundhog Day rehashing the same points in 30 different threads. (-Wash your hands

Stephen McDonell

StephenMcDonell

Remember that new domestic #coronavirus infection I mentioned in #Wuhan yesterday? The 89 year old man has now passed it on to 5 others who’re also officially infected with #covid19.

Oregon Justice Resource Center

OJRCenter

THREAD: Today, there are 941 confirmed positive cases of #COVID19 among Oregonians in prison. There are 247 cases among prison staff. The Department of Corrections has reported a 7th death

Benjy Renton

bhrenton

What happened at the University of Illinois? Earlier today, the university announced a "mini lockdown" for two weeks, calling on all students to significantly restrict in-person activities, in response to

The COVID Tracking Project

COVID19Tracking

But in absolute terms, the number of known cases in the South is growing quickly and — because of the larger population in the region — seems very likely to

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) Montreal recorded its lowest number of new #COVID cases in almost nine weeks on Monday, even though it’s boosted #COVID19 testing. The epicenter of Canada’s #pandemic may be calming,

Ed Yong

edyong209

The central idea behind this piece on why the US failed so badly to control the pandemic is that it fell under the combined weight of a multitude of weaknesses,

SFBART

SFBART

Let's talk air flow in BART cars: BART cars filter & replace inside air about every 70 seconds. This was the case before COVID-19 and is still now. Air is

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

U.K.GermanyGreeceItaly PortugalEurope’s latest string of outbreaks all have something in common: povertyhttps://trib.al/8X05q3e Flare-ups have been occurring in some of Europe’s most deprived neighborhoods, often those inhabited b

Josh Johnson

JoshWeather

I will always remember April 15, 2011...A very significant tornado outbreak unfolded that day across Alabama. Many people have forgotten that day; 12 days later, Alabama had its deadliest tornado

Laura Seay

texasinafrica

I'm seeing an increasing phenomenon of trolling types asking, "But how many are asymptomatic?" in response to news of Covid outbreaks on university campuses & elsewhere. They seem to think