Covidpath

A few passages from Fauci’s new Q&A with Donald McNeil Jr. https://t.co/fdBx5tNai8

— Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer) January 24, 2021

This is a scenario for the coming months that I’m afraid of.

From https://t.co/kx2r9rCHgv pic.twitter.com/iPW300tXA1

— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) January 23, 2021

No vaccines in history have been developed as rapidly as #COVID19 vaccines. The scientific community has set a new standard for vaccine development. Now the international community must set a new standard for access globally. #Solidarity https://t.co/yRtPkZXi0z

— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) January 24, 2021

Photographers say the best camera is the one you have with you. Same for tests; the best test is the one you can take and get results from today.

This essay explains why asymptomatic spread makes it important to expand rapid testing @michaelmina_lab https://t.co/djniZmIRc2

— Michael Lin, PhD-MD (@michaelzlin) January 24, 2021

An estimate that there have been 105 million Americans (not the confirmed 25 million) with covid infections and why, beyond vaccination, masks and distancing will be essential to end the pandemichttps://t.co/PNcBki2Iex@mathisonian @DeniseDSLu @jamesglanz @simonelandon w/ @trvrb pic.twitter.com/4SfipjDWg4

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) January 24, 2021

Vaccines are tools in a much bigger toolbox of public health interventions like physical distancing, masking, testing, drugs and hand hygiene.

To protect each other and our loved ones we must keeping fighting the virus with all the tools at our disposal. https://t.co/o5c2Fk1u2s

— Dylan George (@dylanbgeorge) January 24, 2021

‘A complete massacre, a horror film’ -- inside Brazil's🇧🇷 #Covid19 disaster. Hospitals in Amazonas state overwhelmed by surge in infections linked to new variant, many without even the most basic supplies, by @tomphillipsin https://t.co/wOz85E1jId via @guardian #GlobalHealth

— André Picard (@picardonhealth) January 24, 2021

The NYT asks Fauci about those death threats: "Were you ever shot at or confronted?"

Fauci responds, "One day I got a letter in the mail, I opened it up and a puff of powder came all over my face and my chest."

(As it turned out, it was benign)https://t.co/ZLCXLOfYtl

— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) January 24, 2021

“Geographical associations could also stigmatize countries and so discourage surveillance... “The last thing we want to do is dissuade any particular place from reporting they’ve got a new concerning variant — in fact, we want to do the opposite.”

https://t.co/cXGmPOian5

— Apoorva Mandavilli (@apoorva_nyc) January 24, 2021

The largest workplace outbreak of over 500 cases has been recorded at the DVLAs offices in Swansea. Employees claim people with symptoms were encouraged to return to work while vulnerable workers have had requests to work from home turned down.https://t.co/lhISeiSnWE

— The Sharing Scientist (@ScienceShared) January 23, 2021

Why Vaccines Alone Will Not End the #COVID19 Pandemic https://t.co/NFqsQoRjbL

— Crawford Kilian (@Crof) January 24, 2021

My piece on "The Great Moderna Fib.." of this week is now available via @dailymaverick -

"The so-called 'Moderna vaccine' is a vaccine that was co-invented by the US government’s NIAID & Moderna, with more than a billion dollars of US taxpayer money..."https://t.co/HyU558PVA2

— Fatima Hassan (@_HassanF) January 24, 2021

If Poor Countries Go Unvaccinated, a Study Says, Rich Ones Will Pay https://t.co/ZLjgimGRns

— Dre Joanne Liu (@DreJoanneLiu) January 24, 2021

1. A year ago the first person with asymptomatic covid was documented. My colleague @danieloran culled the data from 61 studies, 1.8 million people to determine how often this occurs. Just published @AnnalsofIM https://t.co/95fJZ673KC

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) January 23, 2021

So, Joe Sonnabend who died today saved my life. He tried to save the life of my cousin Carl too and numerous other gay men in his practice in the 70s, 80s, 90s in NYC's Greenwich Village. 1/

— Gregg Gonsalves (@gregggonsalves) January 24, 2021

This is not correct. SARS-CoV-2 is nothing like influenza virus from a virological or evolutionary standpoint.

A short thread on some big differences: https://t.co/ZjJlLqwS1a

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

Lots of reporters tried to talk to Birx while she was there. She was not interested. And when she spoke publicly early on, she appeared in lockstep with a president whose questioning of the science was true beginning in March 2020. https://t.co/eNdYPTe6M1

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 24, 2021

The world seemed to have a time in 2020 when it's message was unified: "flatten the curve".
But with the benefit of hindsight, we should have been saying "crash the curve". Instead we all kinda went our separate ways after Wave 1.

— ɪᴀɴ ᴍ. ᴍᴀᴄᴋᴀʏ, ᴘʜᴅ 🦠🤧🧬🥼🦟🧻 (@MackayIM) January 24, 2021

I wrote a short thread on being a racial minority within math academia. I didn’t propose any changes to the status quo or solutions. Just pointed out why I think race is an issue in the context of my experiences. Here are some of the EXTREMELY racist responses I got back. 👇🏾

— Kareem Carr 🙃 (@kareem_carr) January 25, 2021

This email broke my heart. Our vaccine rollout just isn’t working if this is how it’s making our seniors feel. pic.twitter.com/M1hu0HHfnS

— Soumya (@skarlamangla) January 24, 2021

Oncall for ICU over the weekend. COVID = social inequality. Full of people from ethnic minorities who can’t work from home, can’t self isolate, work to eat, work to keep a roof over their head, support many others in their family.

— Jim Buckley (@jimbuckley33) January 24, 2021

Latest @guardian cartoon pic.twitter.com/I49wmTKDh8

— Ben Jennings (@BJennings90) January 24, 2021

The new #SARSCoV2 strains and why we need to get genomic surveillance into high gear right awayhttps://t.co/NxF5sJ2FAF by @ScottGottliebMD and @cmyeaton pic.twitter.com/WASaE12OHQ

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) January 24, 2021

Lamento informarles que estoy contagiado de COVID-19. Los síntomas son leves pero ya estoy en tratamiento médico. Como siempre, soy optimista. Saldremos adelante todos. Me representará la Dra. Olga Sánchez Cordero en las mañaneras para informar como lo hacemos todos los días.

— Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) January 25, 2021

Mulling 🇬🇧 disclosure that new #B117 variant could increase #COVID19 deaths ~30%. 🇬🇧 is expected to prolong & tighten lockdown—Schools may close until Easter, overseas travelers maybe quarantined in hotels for 10 days. I’ve looked at data—it’s worrying. 🧵https://t.co/0FfCzXtBYh pic.twitter.com/gdmRcvbb8X

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 24, 2021

Michael Callen, Mathilde Krim, Joe Sonnabend (L to R). All gone now. RIP each of you. Act up. Fight back. Fight AIDS. pic.twitter.com/vEmdU3SVzV

— Gregg Gonsalves (@gregggonsalves) January 25, 2021

Forbes is inviting 75 of their 30 Under 30s to start a "bubble" for a month-long residency in Bermuda in March. It seems like they're taking every precaution possible, and yet.... this still seems like an incredibly terrible and ill-conceived idea. pic.twitter.com/3yRYPGkKA4

— #1 Rachel (@rachel) January 24, 2021

Our daily update is published. States reported 1.7M tests, 143k cases, and 1,940 deaths. 110,628 people are currently hospitalized in the U.S., the fewest since December 14. pic.twitter.com/RW31vtEu5m

— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) January 24, 2021

Fauci made a critical point in the interview which is underappreciated. His primary job is overseeing almost the entire US infectious disease research enterprise. Not having that job filled at Trump’s direction is a very concrete consequence of Fauci not resigning. https://t.co/b9cMexa7af

— Stephen Goldstein (@stgoldst) January 24, 2021

1 year ago today, @TheLancet published the first peer reviewed report of clinical features of #COVID19 https://t.co/3NBjS65qs7

— The Lancet Infectious Diseases (@TheLancetInfDis) January 24, 2021

More good news. @JeremyKonyndyk has long pointed out the problem of scale in pandemic response.

We obsess over creating diagnostics, drugs and vaccines, but fail to think about getting technologies to large numbers of people. Glad to hear he's on board. https://t.co/bx2AzepVTT

— Amy Maxmen, PhD (@amymaxmen) January 24, 2021

Gotta love Tony Fauci. On opening an envelope with white powder. "I looked at it somewhat fatalistically. It had to be one of three things: A hoax. Or anthrax, which meant I’d have to go on Cipro for a month. Or if it was ricin, I was dead, so bye-bye." https://t.co/dNQP2V6EtG

— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) January 24, 2021

I know I've said this before but if you think you've found an easy solution to a problem that all experts have missed, you might want to check to see if actually there are good reasons why it's not as good a solution as you first thought

— Health Nerd (@GidMK) January 24, 2021

👇New concerns about S Africa SARSCoV2 immune escape. “Vaccine trials being conducted in S Africa by Novavax and Johnson & Johnson will provide more real-world data on how the vaccines perform against the new variant there. Those results are expected within the next few weeks.” https://t.co/1SrEhILuDV

— Ed Belongia MD (@EdBelongia) January 24, 2021