Trisha Greenhalgh 😷 #CovidIsAirborne, Discover and Read the Best of Twitter Threads by @trishgreenhalgh

Trisha Greenhalgh 😷 #CovidIsAirborne

trishgreenhalgh

Short thread for medics.There are now two pandemics: the one in vaccinated high-income countries and the one that continues to sweep the world where most people are unvaccinated. I'm working

Had quite a bit of backlash to our paper, published last week, which set out 10 streams of evidence supporting predominance of AIRBORNE spread of SARS-CoV-2. I respond to some

Long thread coming: mute if not interested.The DANMASK19 RCT of masking in Covid-19 prevention has been published. I have serious concerns. I’m deliberately not linking to the paper. DANMASK19 was

Thread on online teaching. (I’ve done lots)Students in UK & elsewhere are being offered online or ‘blended’ (online + face to face) learning. @Andrew_Adonis tweets that students should be offered

Thanks to the many people around the world who translated our social distancing diagram into (so far) 28 different languages. I'll post them all in this thread. Here's the English

Please don’t describe me as a “Top Oxford professor”. Assess my claims on their merits, not on the basis of the reputation of the organisation that hires me. 1/ Ask

Here's the key table from our new paper in @bmj_latest. Email me for the source file if you want to translate it (please acknowledge if you do, BMJ copyright etc).

Masks in schools. Short thread. I write as a parent, an ex-school governor, a GP and someone who does research on masks.Kids get COVID-19. Extremely rarely, they get it badly

This article is published behind a paywall in a "peer-reviewed" journal. It's actually a racist rant against which all who care about academic standards should protest. #BlackInTheIvory I'll post it

Pondering whether COVID-19 will be evidence-based medicine’s nemesis. Having saved lives for 25 years, EBM (narrowly interpreted) will now tend to increase deaths. Not yet convinced, but worried. 1/ As

Tweeps, I’ve sussed mask-making. The primary issue is to get it as soft and comfortable as possible. Outside: one of Spouse’s old hankies. Lining: freebie organic cotton tote bag that

Every leader on the planet is facing the same threat. Every one is responding differently. Every one will be judged by the results. Jacinda is 39. She’s leading by empathy,