Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #infectivity
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"#Herdimmunity is ‘a dangerous fallacy unsupported by scientific evidence'."
Thread to summarize new #COVID19 paper by @TheLancet via Professor @AlexWFriedrich1.
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Thread to summarize new #COVID19 paper by @TheLancet via Professor @AlexWFriedrich1.
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#INFECTIVITY / #MORTALITY
"Its high infectivity, combined with the susceptibility of unexposed populations to a NEW virus, creates conditions for rapid community spread."
"The infection fatality rate of COVID-19 is several-fold HIGHER than that of seasonal influenza."
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"Its high infectivity, combined with the susceptibility of unexposed populations to a NEW virus, creates conditions for rapid community spread."
"The infection fatality rate of COVID-19 is several-fold HIGHER than that of seasonal influenza."
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YOUNG PEOPLE / #IMMUNITY
"...infection can lead to persisting illness, including in young, previously healthy people"
"It is unclear how long protective immunity lasts"
"SARS-CoV-2 is capable of re-infecting people who have already had the disease"
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"...infection can lead to persisting illness, including in young, previously healthy people"
"It is unclear how long protective immunity lasts"
"SARS-CoV-2 is capable of re-infecting people who have already had the disease"
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While it would be good for someone to *publish* this leaked memo, some details of #OperationMoonshot make no sense:
bmj.com/content/370/bm…
For example, how could any "digital #immunity passport" be issued on the basis of a low-confidence #infectivity saliva test?
bmj.com/content/370/bm…
For example, how could any "digital #immunity passport" be issued on the basis of a low-confidence #infectivity saliva test?
Beware the devil you wish for! If returning to work means submitting to a lifelong* #discriminatory health-linked ID, then what will you have traded away for short-term gain?
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*Sorry to break the bad news but COVID ain't going away; there'll be COVID-21, COVID-31, ad infinitum.
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*Sorry to break the bad news but COVID ain't going away; there'll be COVID-21, COVID-31, ad infinitum.
OK, with thanks to @sarahboseley, @Robert_Booth & @carolecadwalla, here are (screengrabs of) the slides...
theguardian.com/world/2020/sep…
theguardian.com/world/2020/sep…
1/6 Recent research in 🇨🇦 sheds light on when people with #COVID19 are most likely to spread the virus to others. Results support isolation of #COVID19 cases for at least 10 days after symptom onset to stop transmission.
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar…
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar…
2/6 #PHAC’s National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) partnered with researchers in Manitoba to study 90 samples taken from Manitobans with #COVID19 at different points of time from 0 to 21 days after symptom onset.
3/6 #COVID19 diagnostic tests (RT-PCR) detect viral particles (RNA) that can remain in the body for varying lengths of time following infection. The study looked at samples to see if they contained live virus capable of infecting others.
