CoronaCoverage

Coverage of humanity's response to Covid-19, with a focus on open source and community-driven interventions.

[The OpenCovid19 Initiative 🔬 @opencovid19]

Hey folks! 👋Interested in learning about collaboration opportunities to tackle the #COVID19 pandemic?

Visit our website https://t.co/gvniHkJT25
Join our Slack Group https://t.co/4OQMcgjCCm and Global Community Call Wednesdays at 4 pm UTC! https://t.co/wxuCKG3USy

[EFF @EFF]

Major commercial publishers are dropping their paywalls on coronavirus research for the duration of the crisis. That’s a great start.
https://t.co/lgMeHm4ne0

[Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre]

OUR NEW PAPER.

Factors associated with COVID-19-related hospital death in the linked electronic health records of 17 MILLION adult NHS patients.

Largest study of its kind ever, anywhere.

The power of UK / NHS data, realised.

https://t.co/XeQj4IG8I8

https://t.co/SpglPKpJSk

[openDemocracy @openDemocracy]

BREAKING: We've sent a legal letter demanding the UK govt release details of its 'unprecedented' NHS data deal.

We need to know exactly how our personal information is being shared with US tech firms, on what terms.

If we don't get answers, we may sue.

https://t.co/E115e478Gt

[Muge Cevik @mugecevik]

A lot of discussion recently about transmission dynamics, most of which are extrapolated from viral loads & estimates. What does contact tracing/community testing data tell us about actual probability of #COVID19 transmission(infection rate), high risk environments/age?
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[Prof Francois Balloux @BallouxFrancois]

A lucid, deep and insightful piece on the societal choices ahead of us to deal with #COVID19. While it misses some of the wider implications of the various strategies at our disposal, this is the best analysis I've read on the topic to date.

https://t.co/nEcGvhu1QV

[Tom Inglesby, MD @T_Inglesby]

New report w/ recommendations to lower risks for the most vulnerable setting: "Guidance on Protecting Individuals Residing in Long-Term Care Facilities" by @dianem2121 Sara Lafave Allison Hart @Elena_Martin33 @JenniferNuzzo
https://t.co/HWH7MsrE8q @JHSPH_CHS @JohnsHopkinsSPH

[CoronaCoverage @CoronaCoverage]

This set of interactive #COVID19 data visualizations is really well put together, excellent resource.

https://t.co/jt0EDh6O9x

[CoronaCoverage @CoronaCoverage]

A Solution Scan of non-pharmaceutical options to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Long list of 275 options for ways to reduce transmission.

https://t.co/vlrCbZ7Gw8

[CoronaCoverage @CoronaCoverage]

This paper estimates that 45% of COVID-19 transmission is pre-symptomatic (95% Confidence Interval of 25-69%, so almost certainly an important factor). Pre-symptomatic transmission thought to occur 0-2 days before symptom onset.
https://t.co/aqJI3OuQU0

[Ben Adida @benadida]

22/ also, if we're indeed going to see counties pushing out apps, best way to go is have one open-source implementation that can be white-labeled by health departments. Who's going to build the open-source app & backend that runs against these APIs?

[Trevor Bedford @trvrb]

In many ways, this should be entirely obvious, but we now have strong evidence that social distancing results in decreased #COVID19 transmission rates. 1/7

[VitalTalk @vitaltalk]

Our #COVID19 ready communication skills in multiple languages available here: https://t.co/B9SQjd9BBV

Available in English on our free VitalTalk Tips app for iOS and Android. https://t.co/TE3YThC6B5

Grateful for our @vitaltalk community!
#meded #FOAMed #medtwitter #pallicovid

[CoronaCoverage @CoronaCoverage]

This article describes the Indian experience of Covid-19 and its differential effects on rich and poor. It suggests that we should consider the pandemic as a portal, aiming to come out better on the other side and leave our baggage behind. Nice.

https://t.co/bCXN8kJHHY

[Trevor Bedford @trvrb]

Today, we're standing up a project called NextTrace that aims to enable digital participatory contact tracing and guide #COVID19 surveillance efforts. See a full description here https://t.co/0jKDupUlVb or get the summary in this thread. 1/20

[Laboratory for Data Security - EPFL @LDS_epfl]

We are proud to announce the Pan-European Privacy Preserving Proximity Tracking, a system for secure and privacy-preserving proximity tracing to interrupt new chains of SARS-CoV-2 transmission.
LDS members have been actively involved in this project!
https://t.co/aIqARVQeTn

[Julien B. @bneiluj]

🚨IMPORTANT: We've received another order of 20 easy covid-19 ventilator pieces for the Hospital Paris Saint-Joseph where they're now running out of beds. Please reach out to us if you have a 3D printer. Please donate but ALSO SPREAD THE WORD to find 3D printer hobbyists.

[CoronaCoverage @CoronaCoverage]

The wearing of masks in public is a norm in most of the places where #COVID19 has been effectively suppressed.

There's a major mask-mobilization effort in Czech Republic.

https://t.co/DlYpPEcvac

[CoronaCoverage @CoronaCoverage]

Seemingly misleading information about the ineffectiveness of masks, broadcast apparently to placate populations with no ready access to good masks/respirators, has been sad to see. If masks can help, we need to know and act on that.

https://t.co/mMskwDCfef

[Marc Lipsitch @mlipsitch]

Tonight #DeborahBirx stated that models anticipating large-scale transmission of COVID-19 do not match reality on the ground. Our modeling (done by @StephenKissler based on work with @ctedijanto and @yhgrad and me) is one of the models she is talking about.