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Today we published our final weekly update. COVID-19 cases, deaths, and hospitalizations continue to decline, while tests are up 12 percent. https://t.co/WR78xLciHn pic.twitter.com/I1bosAlizt

— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) March 4, 2021

The first large, well-done RCT on ivermectin for mild COVID-19 has been published, and has found no benefit for the drughttps://t.co/lCQdqJ721L pic.twitter.com/tCNpFrLHss

— Health Nerd (@GidMK) March 4, 2021

New research> Interferon antagonism by #SARSCoV2: a functional study using reverse genetics #COVID19 https://t.co/ksfTtcYUZC

— The Lancet Microbe (@LancetMicrobe) March 4, 2021

The world isn't going to eradicate #SARSCoV2, so what's our relationship going to be like with the coronavirus going forward? On the short-,middle-, and long-term future of the pandemichttps://t.co/zAhetrQRUf via @statnews

— Andrew Joseph (@DrewQJoseph) March 4, 2021

A rural Black community the road from Mar-a-Largo was completely left out of the vaccine rollout. When the state finally set up local sites, they made them open to all with no appointment needed - and so wealthy white people drove in from afar https://t.co/xGyHYnmve4

— Olivia Goldhill (@OliviaGoldhill) March 4, 2021

Preprint: B.1.1.7 increases risk of hospitalization in Denmark by ~60%. Fits with studies showing an increased risk of mortality in UK. About a quarter of coronaviruses in US are now B.1.1.7, with a doubling rate of ~10 days. https://t.co/HlzNGA27DP

— Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer) March 4, 2021

The AstraZeneca #COVID19 vaccine is now approved for those over 65 in Germany & France.

Both countries updated their age criteria based on more recent data - another example of policy adapting to emerging data in real time.
https://t.co/tkdXiJValw

— Isaac Bogoch (@BogochIsaac) March 4, 2021

Nicely done RCT of ivermectin given within 7 days of symptom onset in mild individuals in Columbia. Bottom line was no difference in symptom resolution, clinical deterioration, or hospitalization. Good trials needed in more severe disease.https://t.co/m9MSd5bYj9 pic.twitter.com/lDN6zBGdhv

— Zain Chagla (@zchagla) March 4, 2021

De 'Britse variant' B.1.1.7 van SARS-CoV-2. https://t.co/TQNKI2h0Ue

— Dieles Stolk (@DCSZ14) March 4, 2021

#COVAX doses have landed in the Philippines and others are on their way to Mali! More important steps in the largest and most rapid vaccine rollout in history: https://t.co/1yheQtByNb #OneWorldProtected @Gavi @CEPIvaccines @WHO @UNICEF

— Seth Berkley (@GaviSeth) March 4, 2021

Think of humanity’s worst plagues.... their toll pales in comparison with that of tuberculosis (TB), which has killed more than 1 billion people over the past 2000 years—and still kills 1.5 million people worldwide every yearhttps://t.co/nqi8HRObYM

— Iñaki Comas (@icoes) March 4, 2021

If you've relied on @COVID19Tracking data and interpretation over the past year, I wrote this for you: here's what we know about some easy-to-use covid data from the CDC—and what we've learned about how to think about the data's meaning. https://t.co/Ipe3ZaHqbm

— Erin Kissane (@kissane) March 5, 2021

Once B.1.1.7 becomes dominant, cases 📈. San Diego, why do we think we're different? ☀️?

We're not - and we can show it based on current numbers.

Here, @gkay92 split daily cases into those caused by B.1.1.7 and non-B.1.1.7 based on @my_helix data. B.1.1.7 📈, non-B.1.1.7 📉. pic.twitter.com/wr7W5ZcHLf

— Kristian G. Andersen (@K_G_Andersen) March 5, 2021

Another knock-out paper from the South African Science Dream Team - this one with some good news.

People infected with B.1.351 effectively neutralize B.1.351 and non-B.1.351 (with a small decrease).

Doh, obviously!, you say. Not so fast... Quick 🧵👇https://t.co/PAfYmaoHGS

— Kristian G. Andersen (@K_G_Andersen) March 4, 2021

📍~64% MORE SEVERE—The already more contagious #B117 variant from 🇬🇧 is now found to increase risk of #COVID19 hospitalization by 64% versus other strains, says Denmark’s 🇩🇰 CDC. Denmark sequences every cases—their data is the best, & now most worrisome.🧵 https://t.co/F6w2JYEUnM pic.twitter.com/mngJoTBZtl

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) March 4, 2021

I've decided to pull back from talking about race on social media. There are many reasons for this but the most important one for me is it has come to feel like a pointless energy drain that doesn't seem to make a difference.

— 🔥 Kareem Carr 🔥 (@kareem_carr) March 3, 2021

Media briefing on #COVID19 with @DrTedros https://t.co/ohoKSJzanW

— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) March 5, 2021

"We think we're through this. We're not." @WHO's @DrMikeRyan warns against dropping one's guard as #Covid vaccine rollouts risk making people lax about protecting themselves because they think the end is near. Time of big hope and big risks.

— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) March 5, 2021

I get up in the morning, make a cup of coffee, read all the emails from collaborators asking me when I'm going to do whatever it was I promised to — and work on the one I feel guiltiest about.

— Carl T. Bergstrom (@CT_Bergstrom) March 5, 2021

Thread on @JAMA_current: (JAMA has complete editorial independence from AMA so this would not come to me or my team for review) The podcast/tweet are/were wrong, absolutely appalling & at its very core is a demonstration of structural & institutional racism. I am furious. 1/ pic.twitter.com/o82H8dgR5v

— Dr. Aletha Maybank (@DrAlethaMaybank) March 4, 2021

Well, my 12-15 months guess turned out pretty spot on.

For my birthday, I got my first #COVID19 Moderna vaccine dose.

Sure, I had to have 35 years of pretty severe asthma to get here, but it feels like the light at the end of the tunnel of this pandemic is visible. https://t.co/WWirySZJyo pic.twitter.com/mfbymOJV3f

— Dr Alexandra Phelan (@alexandraphelan) March 4, 2021

Pleased to address Finance Ministers at the Financing #COVID19 Vaccines for Africa meeting yesterday. One of the main @WHO priorities now is to increase the ambition of #COVAX to help all countries end the pandemic by scaling up manufacturing https://t.co/zwHxh9C24a #VaccinEquity

— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) March 5, 2021

Nearly 622,400 infections caused by 6 antibiotic-resistant pathogens cost more than $4.6 billion each year https://t.co/iCAd3wt6gJ #AntibioticResistance

— Dr. Syra Madad (@syramadad) March 5, 2021

I'm a senior (band 6) Nurse.

A 1% pay rise only puts an extra £6 in my pocket each week, which doesn't even cover how much I get charged for parking at work.

— Callum Bell (@Callum_Bell8) March 4, 2021

Two new papers find large covid clusters in fitness facilities - including some examples in Hawaii where every single class attendee was infected. In Chicago, case study, 68%. Indoor gyms are going to be a no for me for a while yet. https://t.co/5SGaGY46vl pic.twitter.com/aEBA9kcv6g

— Caitlin Rivers, PhD (@cmyeaton) March 5, 2021

Apropos of nothing, I recently had a paper about racist police enforcement of COVID-19 mandates rejected from JAMA because it a) wasn't considered "sufficient priority" and b) didn't consider the "positive health impacts" of police enforcement of COVID-19 mandates 🙃

— Sandhya Kajeepeta (@SandhyaKaj) March 5, 2021

A huge moment: the European Union has exercised its export control regulations to block 250,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine that was bound for Australia. https://t.co/AW0ngPYBXd

— Dr Alexandra Phelan (@alexandraphelan) March 4, 2021

Statement from Howard Bauchner, MD, Editor in Chief JAMA and The JAMA Network pic.twitter.com/A1AJNnMWB4

— JAMA (@JAMA_current) March 4, 2021

Discussions about outdoor transmission risk in a nutshell:

Actual risk of transmission outdoors vs. attention paid to it pic.twitter.com/DsaQ3KlcSz

— Muge Cevik (@mugecevik) March 4, 2021

Saying that I am honored and excited to give a talk alongside Dr. Fauci and Dr. Saif on #COVID19 at the #AAI2021 is a huge understatement 😲😊😭 (mixed emotions but all good!). https://t.co/cpq2i2RJMW pic.twitter.com/BSt3vsc4oB

— Prof. Akiko Iwasaki (@VirusesImmunity) March 5, 2021

Apologies without action are hollow.

— uché blackstock, md (@uche_blackstock) March 4, 2021

A fascinating paper on COVID-19 death underreporting in Zambia. Of 364 people tested after death:

- 6 officially recorded as a COVID-19 death
- 70 tested positive to COVID-19 on PCR

Implies ~90%(!) underreporting of COVID-19 burdenhttps://t.co/P1vhOeDVay pic.twitter.com/1KlRf3P18e

— Health Nerd (@GidMK) March 5, 2021