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Oct 22 • Science | 22 expert tweets ->
The engines of SARS-CoV-2 spread
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread rapidly across the globe, causing epidemics that range from quickly controlled local outbreaks (such as New Zealand) to large ongoing epidemics infecting millions (such as the United States). A tremendous volume of scientific literature has followed, as has vigorous debate...

Oct 23 • Nature Medicine | 22 expert tweets ->
Modeling COVID-19 scenarios for the United States
A modeling study using case and mortality data from the first 8 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States explores five potential future scenarios of social distancing mandates and mask use at the state level, with projections of the course of the epidemic through winter 2021.

Oct 22 • Science | 22 expert tweets ->
Understanding COVID-19 vaccine efficacy
Vaccine efficacy in high-risk groups and reduced viral shedding are important for protection

Oct 23 • The Price for Not Wearing Masks | 21 expert tweets ->
The Price for Not Wearing Masks: Perhaps 130,000 Lives
The pandemic death toll could be lowered by next spring if more Americans wear masks, a new analysis finds.

Oct 22 • Forbes | 20 expert tweets ->
Time To Tap Covid-19 Innovations & Systems To Reimagine TB Care
The TB epidemic is worsening because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Given the massive setback to progress in reaching any of the TB targets, it's time for the TB community to ask: are there Covid-19 innovations and systems that can be effectively leveraged to tackle TB and get back on track?

Schoolchildren Seem Unlikely to Fuel Coronavirus Surges, Scientists Say
Researchers once feared that school reopenings might spread the virus through communities. But so far there is little evidence that it’s happening.

Oct 23 • New England Journal of Medicine | 16 expert tweets ->
Facial Masking for Covid-19 | NEJM
Correspondence from The New England Journal of Medicine — Facial Masking for Covid-19

Oct 23 • Washington Post | 14 expert tweets ->
Analysis | A powerful argument for wearing a mask, in visual form
Real-time pandemic data paints a vivid picture of the relationship between mask-wearing and the prevalence of covid-19 symptoms.

Oct 22 • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | 14 expert tweets ->
Mitigating a COVID-19 Outbreak Among Major League ...
This report describes the Major League Baseball’s response to a COVID-19 outbreak among players.

Oct 22 • Vanity Fair | 13 expert tweets ->
Trump’s Vaccine Rush vs. the FDA: Inside Stephen Hahn’s “Existential Crisis”
Since almost the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the president has openly lobbied for a vaccine to claim as a political victory. Increasingly, eyewitnesses say, doctors, researchers, and the embattled head of the Food and Drug Administration have worked behind the scenes to Trump-proof the process.

Oct 22 • Opinion | 13 expert tweets ->
Opinion | A Member of Congress and a Doctor Have Voting Advice for You
Don’t wait until Election Day: Make a plan, vote early if you can and take the usual coronavirus precautions.

Oct 22 • The BMJ | 12 expert tweets ->
Convalescent plasma in the management of moderate covid-19 in adults in India: open label phase II multicentre randomised controlled trial (PLACID Trial)
Objective To investigate the effectiveness of using convalescent plasma to treat moderate coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) in adults in India. Design Open label, parallel arm, phase II, multicentre, randomised controlled trial. Setting 39 public and private hospitals across India. Participants 464 adults (≥18 years) admitted to hospital...

Oct 23 • medRxiv | 10 expert tweets ->
Viral dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 infection and the predictive value of repeat testing
SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics that report viral RNA concentrations can be used to determine a patient's stage of infection, but this potential has not yet been realized due to a lack of prospective longitudinal data to calibrate such inferences. Here, we report the viral RNA trajectories for 68 individuals using quantitative PCR testing. On average,...

The Trump Administration Shut a Vaccine Safety Office Last Year. What’s the Plan Now?
The office was dedicated to the long-term safety of vaccines. Experts say plans to track coronavirus vaccines are fragmented and “behind the eight ball.”

Oct 23 • The BMJ | 9 expert tweets ->
Virology, transmission, and pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2
### What you need to know Since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in December 2019, there has been an unparalleled global effort to characterise the virus and the clinical course of disease. Coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19), caused by SARS-CoV-2, follows a biphasic pattern of illness that likely results from the combination of an early viral...

Oct 23 • Opinion | 9 expert tweets ->
Opinion | America and the Virus: ‘A Colossal Failure of Leadership’
In its destruction of American lives, treasure and well-being, this pandemic marks the greatest failure of U.S. governance since Vietnam.

Oct 22 • Rapid City Journal Media Group | 8 expert tweets ->
GOV. NOEM: Update on South Dakota’s COVID-19 response
It has been nearly eight months since COVID-19 first hit our state. Though there is still much to learn, we are fortunate to have a much better sense of the

To avoid quarantining students, a school district tries moving them around every 15 minutes.
To reduce the number of students sent home to quarantine after exposure to the coronavirus, the Billings Public Schools, the largest school district in Montana, came up with an idea that has public health experts shaking their heads: Reshuffling students in the classroom four times an hour.

Oct 23 • medRxiv | 8 expert tweets ->
Early use of nitazoxanide in mild Covid-19 disease: randomized, placebo-controlled trial
The antiparasitic drug nitazoxanide is widely available and exerts broad-spectrum antiviral activity in vitro. However, there is no evidence of its impact on SARS-CoV-2 infection. In a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, adult patients who presented up to 3 days after onset of Covid-19 symptoms (dry cough, fever,...

Oct 22 • The Nation | 8 expert tweets ->
We’re Never Going Back to Normal
The question is how we’ll remake the world.

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