COVID-19 updates based on what experts on Twitter are talking about.
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.@CDCgov investigations have linked 4 cases of melioidosis — a sometimes fatal bacterial infection — to an aromatherapy room spray sold at Walmart.
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) October 22, 2021
2 of the 4 cases in the U.S. have died.
Walmart has issued a recall. Developing story, https://t.co/D03o46Lyi8
'(...) public health experts in both rich and poor countries argue that expanding production to the regions most in need is not only possible, it is essential for safeguarding the world against dangerous variants of the virus and ending the pandemic.'https://t.co/02GmPRTV1v
— Thiago Carvalho (@CyrilPedia) October 22, 2021
This has now happened a second time: an Ebola outbreak has occurred due to transmission from a persistently infected person of a virus that has barely changed in years.
— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) October 14, 2021
This hints at an unknown and completely novel persistence mechanism for an RNA virus.https://t.co/Otr0gYbBIA
An assessment of Covid's impact on cognitive function in 740 individuals finds "a relatively high frequency of cognitive impairment several months after patients contracted COVID-19"https://t.co/l0gcvCbm9j @JAMANetworkOpen pic.twitter.com/kmoNo291Xo
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 22, 2021
After almost 2 years of Covid, the overwhelming fixation on hospitalizations and deaths as the only important outcomes for getting infected is untenable.
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 22, 2021
Deliberately ignoring #LongCovid and its functional impairment will not make it go away.
To make rapid tests as useful as possible
— Michael Mina (@michaelmina_lab) October 5, 2021
-make them Accessible
-make them Free for ppl
-Offer employers & schools ez options for getting *Verified* results w HOME-tests
-Make Verified home-tests reportable to public health (eMed is a great example that enables the last two)
Qld govt announces new border restrictions : entry only for fully vaxxed and those putting cream first on scones #creamfirst pic.twitter.com/VmOYM69Hs6
— Minh Le Cong (@ketaminh) October 16, 2021
#Retirement
— Dominic Harrison (@BWDDPH) October 17, 2021
I would like to thank everyone who has made kind comments to me on Twitter re my announcement of retirement in March 2022.
Still 6 months to go-through what may be a difficult winter-so I will be 'on it' until then!
(Along with our brilliant #publichealth team!)
Professor, you may feel the medical profession is unfairly targeted much of the time. It could be worse, you could have been a lawyer!
— KentTrafficLaw (@Sunil_KTLaw) October 17, 2021
Thanks @WvSchaik & @BallouxFrancois - so at this stage, the shots being delivered are overwhelmingly mRNA vaccines (under 30s)(?)
— vegard eldholm (@Vehuardo) October 17, 2021
Twitter: I am organizing an event I want your recommendations for people discussing #AntimicrobialResistance #AMR on how the research agenda and priority pathogens have been driven by the global north? leaving several blind spots & neglected resistances #DecolonizingGlobalHealth
— Angela Uyen Cateriano (@AnGeLaUyEn) October 18, 2021
Putting the responsibility entirely on the vulnerable is ableism. Don’t do it.
— Jamie Weisman, M.D. (@jamie_weisman) October 18, 2021
What’s more complicated, healthcare or air travel?
— Matthew Herper (@matthewherper) October 18, 2021
$UHG’s Dirk McMahon, who worked in airlines at one time, says healthcare. But at least you don’t have to deal with the weather. #HLTH2021
You would dispute with Temmam et al? Granted theirs is just an example but the principle is good. SARS2 is a recombinant of viruses closely related to those found near abouts (500K) from the mine. You disagree with what exactly?
— Bioscience Resource Project (@BioSRP) October 19, 2021
At places I’ve trained—UChicago & Harvard, which are v well resourced—more than adequate stipends & benefits were guaranteed at point of entry & were only then further supplemented. There can sometimes be disavowed investments in exaggerating precarity these social contexts.
— Eric Reinhart (@_Eric_Reinhart) October 19, 2021
'a lil’ higher'---more like knock it out of the park higher 😉 You don't need to be modest abt your own vaccine.
— Sheldon Chang (@sheldonchang) October 19, 2021
Okay but the pig thing is super interesting. Any idea what about their physiology makes them able to produce aerosols?
— Rachel Alter, MPH (@RachelAlter007) October 19, 2021
This is stunning https://t.co/G43yM7yo4b
— Sally Lewis (@RslewisSally) October 20, 2021