The 🌍 has the means to increase #COVID19 vaccine production quickly. Those who own most of the manufacturing capacity can work together & there will be enough doses to share. Prolonging the hostage drama by the virus is dangerous. #VaccinEquity

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say it probably has something to do with the exponential replication of a pandemic virus because we stopped trying to control it 🤔

It's not surprising that testing is running into issues as SARS-CoV-2 transmission is increasing, because a gradually expanding testing capacity is competing with an exponentially growing epidemic. If transmission isn't slowed down, it's inevitable will lose track of cases.

Early in the pandemic, there were clear signals from China and Italy about impact of uncontrolled COVID-19 transmission. Now there are signals from multiple countries about what happens if measures are substantially relaxed. It would be profoundly naive to ignore them.

My pal Andrew did something groovy take a look!

The phase 1/2 Oxford COVID-19 vaccine trial is now published. The vaccine is safe, well-tolerated, and immunogenic. Congratulations to Pedro Folegatti and colleagues. These results are extremely encouraging. bit.ly/2ZHqY5E

Welcome to the world of tampons and sanitary towels.

Val is one of our amazing professors, researching sanitation and hygiene all over the world.

Here Val shares her battle against cancer. Important, honest and brave piece.

➡️ bit.ly/30bojQG Val Curtis Guardian Opinion

“I would be surprised and delighted if we weren’t in this current situation through the winter, into next spring”

Prof Chris Whitty says he expects a “significant amount of coronavirus circulating at least until that time” and we should plan as such

bbc.in/3ewZkgE

Yesterday, Boris Johnson announced that groups of up to six can meet in gardens, as long as social distancing is maintained.

Several (one) people have asked me: 'how do I know if my garden is big enough?'

Worry no more! (a thread 👇 1/7) #COVID19 #SocialDistancing #Python

Every Covid Briefing. Ever.

FULL sketch: youtu.be/tYUMQL5ABPw

#Covid19 UK #Covid19 #Coronavirus #StayAlert

Science soul sister support 🥰👩🏼‍🔬👩🏽‍🔬

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Femininity does not invalidate your place in the scientific community. Thank you Basic Environmentalist 🙏🏻

In summary: a combination of isolation, tracing and some setting-specific physical distancing may enable control of COVID-19 with less disruption. Designing distancing measures to target hard-to-trace interactions could also enhance relative effectiveness of tracing. 13/

Our new preliminary analysis looks at the potential impact of various isolation, contact tracing, testing, and physical distancing measures on COVID-19, using social interaction data from over 40,000 people in the UK cmmid.github.io/topics/covid19… 1/

UPDATE: #Coronavirus #COVID19

➡️testing important to monitor epidemic
➡️weekly screening of high-risk groups reduces transmission by a third
➡️community testing unlikely to limit transmission more than contact-tracing & symptom-based quarantine

🔰imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-inf…

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When a scientist says 'This paper doesn't show this' or 'We don't have enough evidence to say'

They are not saying it's wrong. Or that it will never be shown. They are saying we all need to be really careful how we interpret this.

#COVID19 #SARSCoV2

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