Covidpath

NEW: #LongCovid is the silent pandemic. 2m victims & counting in the UK alone. A moving & powerful first film by @kitty_teague & @jwsal who teamed up with @Dr2NisreenAlwan to give these survivors a voice. Please watchhttps://t.co/NEanaPYqRc

— The Citizens (@allthecitizens) July 23, 2021

Thank goodness.https://t.co/FOKjqfyZHq

— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) July 23, 2021

New @PHE_uk report today: new data on reinfection for prior covid, risk of Delta ~1.5X that of Alpha, particularly if >6 months prior https://t.co/FeXoDarG0q pic.twitter.com/AMKn9PjNWa

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) July 23, 2021

Daily Testing in school study report is out but presentation by BBC here is SPIN SPIN SPIN

The trial failed to show convincing reductions in school absence, and could not rule out large increases in Covid transmission. Sensitivity of the test was 53%.https://t.co/RlI4zyf1J8

— Jon Deeks FMedSci (@deeksj) July 23, 2021

Lifesaving impact of full vaccination on a log-plot graph by age, by @mroliverbarnes and @jburnmurdoch @FThttps://t.co/EWtgB2Vjgx great #dataviz pic.twitter.com/Voi7cdrEju

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) July 23, 2021

Great article from ⁦@KatherineJWu⁩ on why she’s going to #MaskUp again:

1) I don’t want to get #COVID19
2) I don’t want people around me to get COVID-19
3) I trust the vaccines but they have limitations
4) Wearing a mask is not a big deal https://t.co/DBy0f9Mca3

— Dr. Taison Bell (@TaisonBell) July 23, 2021

🚨Unvaccinated people aren't a monolith. It's a huge mistake to treat them all as anti-vaxxers who are being selfish or antagonistic.

I spoke to @RheaBoydMD about why some folks are still unvaccinated, what to do about it, & why she's still hopeful. 1/https://t.co/xTXM7aRjke

— Ed Yong (@edyong209) July 22, 2021

Releasing school based contacts of COVID cases from isolation with daily lateral flow tests did not increase transmission, and <2% of contacts went on to test positive. Our pre-print out today https://t.co/Ooeqp7VEzY

— Bernadette Young (@BugsBernadette) July 23, 2021

New feature: Interactive county vaccination coverage by case rate map. A way to identify areas that are more likely to have ongoing disease transmission. Teal/aqua is preferable to red here. https://t.co/OzQVHd6LEq pic.twitter.com/H9wpe90aEu

— Cyrus Shahpar (@cyrusshahpar46) July 23, 2021

How serious is the delta variant?

“It is one of the most infectious respiratory viruses we know of and that I have seen in my 20-year career,” @CDCDirector said today.

White House warns of “pivotal moment” in covid fight, as millions remain unvaxxed.https://t.co/j0q7j8Upwf

— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) July 22, 2021

After decades, thanks to @MollyJongFast, I've now been interviewed in @voguemagazine. Looking forward to telling my 92 yo mom, Jean Hotez, who off and on has maintained subscription ever since I can remember https://t.co/9WDN1XA4SS

— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) July 22, 2021

Brilliant to see the results of the daily testing cRCT in schools led by @BugsBernadette and colleagues at PHE/Oxford. Have to applaud all those involved for running and analysing such a complex trial during a pandemic.

Comment from yours truly here: https://t.co/TdvtdaQe3W

— Billy Quilty (@BQuilty) July 23, 2021

As ever, @KatherineJWu is sensible, comprehensible, and on point: https://t.co/HXlIL1IpDg

— Jennifer Brown (@JLBrown_UIowa) July 22, 2021

We know vaccines reduce your risk of infection, but they aren't *perfect.* Then what fraction of transmission in the population is from the vaccinated? How might this change with new variants?

In the thread below, I share a mental model with worked examples. 1/11 pic.twitter.com/KROyff6CCr

— Natalie E. Dean, PhD (@nataliexdean) July 23, 2021

Let's looks at the highly flawed study that is being cited as showing no difference between LFD testing and isolation of contacts in schools. This is simply incorrect, and the premise of the trial as reported in the preprint out now is rather shocking from an ethics perspective🧵

— Deepti Gurdasani (@dgurdasani1) July 23, 2021

*whispers* maybe dunking on people who are hesitant (but possibly open) about getting the COVID vaccine isn’t the best way to engage

— Arrianna Marie Planey, MA PhD (@Arrianna_Planey) July 23, 2021

In 1962 Dallas County #Texas vaccinated 950,000 residents against the poliovirus in two days, ensuring an immunization rate well over 90%. pic.twitter.com/YccXbynX99

— Cleavon MD 💉 (@Cleavon_MD) July 23, 2021

Since last summer, high-profile US public health experts have tended to push against public health measures while the general public has tended to support public health measures. https://t.co/Crzu3IbQKw

— Justin Feldman (@jfeldman_epi) July 23, 2021

LONG COVID THREAD:

The people running the BBC Horizon "Great British Intelligence Test" challenge on over 80,000 people took the opportunity to see if they could detect any differences by whether people had had covid or not...

— Prof. Christina Pagel (@chrischirp) July 23, 2021

Here's @JamieMetzl coming within inches of calling for war with China over a coverup no one has any evidence is even real

"China's rejection of a full investigation poses a threat to the world that cannot be tolerated."https://t.co/YccmEJ1oOd

— Stephen Goldstein (@stgoldst) July 23, 2021

Almost the same number of cases were reported today (70,264) as this day last year (71,600).*

Today there are 32,842 people hospitalized with covid. Last year there were 59,862 hospitalizations on this date.**

Today there were 501 deaths reported. Last year: 1,078.*

— Caitlin Rivers, PhD (@cmyeaton) July 23, 2021

I don’t like to share these things, though my DMs are FULL of them!
This is the politest one I received in the past day.
I’m sharing 👇🏾 to say how you interact w/ or amplify a minority women matters!To you it might be benign, to those who need little excuse to show hate it’s not https://t.co/FVBHonTESf pic.twitter.com/ILBHIlgrsY

— Fatima Tokhmafshan (she/elle) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 (@DeNovo_Fatima) July 23, 2021

I haven’t been tweeting as much lately in large part thanks to my summer health & wellness goals, but I just broke a 13 mph sprinting speed so I feel like it’s been a worthwhile trade off tbh! ⏱

— Dr. Maia Majumder (@maiamajumder) July 23, 2021

I wrote this in May of 2020; it is still true: If #Covid vaccines turn Covid from a life-threatening disease to a flu-like illness, they will have done their job.
Some vaxed people will catch Covid. It's inevitable. And it's not the end of the world. https://t.co/FeO6ukvgDV

— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) July 23, 2021

COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida have reached the highest level since February 5. At the current rate they'll surpass the winter peak within 7 days https://t.co/Vp1tDrN1su pic.twitter.com/gqwIHT8A8B

— BNO Newsroom (@BNODesk) July 23, 2021

1/Our PITCH consortium preprint on immune responses during different Pfizer BNT162b2 dosing regimens is out! https://t.co/QwGOz1Bgyu TL;DR get both doses of whichever vaccine you are offered

— Thushan de Silva (@Thushan_deSilva) July 23, 2021

This is a really phenomenal thread that addresses a lot of questions on transmission from vaccinated individuals.

Thanks as always to the brilliant Dr. @nataliexdean for doing the math and showing the work in a way that's accessible and easy to understand. https://t.co/0PhehkhJZQ

— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) July 23, 2021

A new @CDCMMWR suggests vaccinated staff @PHLschools had 95% fewer #COVID19 infections compared to unvaccinated staff. This finding shows the importance of COVID-19 vaccination for school staff during the 2021–22 school year. More: https://t.co/hEaQoB11wb. pic.twitter.com/Om49wYUfI9

— CDC (@CDCgov) July 23, 2021

Is the UK’s Delta wave peaking? And is the US further into this wave than we’re measuring; and closer to reaching our own turning point and seeing cases start to descend? Let’s hope 🙏 https://t.co/DKMs9T52Xj

— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) July 23, 2021

BREAKING: Florida reports 13,256 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase since January, and 148 new deaths

— BNO Newsroom (@BNODesk) July 23, 2021

Goddamn it’s comical watching a senior scientist promote conspiracy theories about public health agencies while calling people who have disagreed with them “emotional” and trolling public health workers 🙃

— Dr. Saskia Popescu (@SaskiaPopescu) July 23, 2021

Breakthrough infections aren't failures. They're inevitable with any vaccine. Covid vaccines aren't perfect, but they're astonishingly effective at keeping people out of hospitals and morgues.

— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) July 23, 2021

I just left the ER.

We are officially back to getting crushed by COVID-19.

Delta Variant is running rampant and it’s MUCH more transmissible than the original virus.

99% of our ICU admits did NOT receive a vaccine.

Virtually ALL of them wish they had.

— Sam Ghali, M.D. (@EM_RESUS) July 22, 2021