Take a bow @mvankerkhove ##COVID19's rock star 🎉👏. Incredible wide-reaching analysis of where we are and where we need to be going forward in the pandemic @ISID_org #IMED2021. Some highlights in this thread Drivers of testing diversity & strategies #COVID19 - I'd add the challenge of a health workforce to contact trace, as well as quarantining and isolating those exposed and those infected in #LMICs, where poverty and overcrowding in households/informal dwellings is so common.

For all the doctors and family/friends of patients in public sector hospitals in 🇿🇦we are not treating severe #COVID19 patients with #Ivermectin. It does not form part of our national guidelines & the evidence base for that conclusion can be read 👉health.gov.za/wp-content/upl… 1/n That evidence-base is regularly updated and if evidence comes to light of significant benefit from reliable, well-conducted randomised clinical trials, then incorporation would be considered. 2/n