Covid Expert Tweets Weekly Digest #1
Hi and welcome to the first edition of the Covid Expert Tweets digest. I’ve had to delay getting the digest started due to working on the website, but now that a lot of features are built I plan to get this digest out every week.
The updated website (https://covidexperttweets.com/) now contains:
A digest of top links over the last 48 hours and 7 days
A view of all Covid-19 tweets from the expert list that can be:
Filtered by sub-topics
Ordered by date and number of expert tweets
Filtered for tweets with links only
Filtered for up to a year of historical Covid-19 tweets from the expert list
Search for all Covid-19 tweets and links from the expert list, including filtering and ordering on results
Permalinks to ‘tweet groups’ or collections of tweets around a particular link
I plan to add filtering for research articles, better search, better clustering of links, geo-filtering of news and more. Please let me know if there is anything else you would like to see! The feedback I receive is my main motivation for continued work on this project.
To start with, this digest will contain links to the top stories the expert list has tweeted about over the last week. I plan to keep improving this each week with summaries, images/embeds of expert tweets and different sections for news and research.
For any feedback please reach out to me on Twitter. You can follow @CovidExperList on Twitter for daily RTs of top expert tweets. Also if you have found this digest or the website useful please share it with your network. Thanks for your support!
-Bhavik
Top Links from last 7 days
Oct 22 • 30 expert tweets ->
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 21 • 29 expert tweets ->
The false promise of herd immunity for COVID-19
Why proposals to largely let the virus run its course — embraced by Donald Trump’s administration and others — could bring “untold death and suffering”.
Related articles: NYTimes (18 expert tweets ->), Washington Post (20 expert tweets ->), Washington Post (19 expert tweets ->)
Oct 18 • 27 expert tweets ->
Covid-19: The global crisis — in data
Charts and maps shows paradoxes of a pandemic that has claimed a million lives
Oct 20 • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | 26 expert tweets ->
Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19, by Age and ...
This report describes the estimated excess deaths reported in the United States from late January through October 3, 2020, with 66% excess deaths attributed to COVID-19.
Oct 22 • Science | 24 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 22 • Forbes | 22 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?
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 20 • NPR.org | 18 expert tweets ->
Studies Point To Big Drop In COVID-19 Death Rates
More hospitalised patients are surviving than early in the pandemic. Improved treatments make a big difference, but so does flattening the curve to keep hospitals from overfilling, researchers say.
Oct 21 • Washington Post | 14 expert tweets ->
CDC expands definition of who is a ‘close contact’ of an individual with covid-19
The new guidance is likely to have the biggest impact on schools, workplaces and other group settings since more people are likely to be considered at risk.
Oct 19 • the Guardian | 14 expert tweets ->
A small number of people and events are responsible for most virus transmission – that is why tracing them is so vital, say Kyra Grantz and Justin Lessler of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Oct 20 • 14 expert tweets ->
Debunking the False Claim That COVID Death Counts Are Inflated
President Trump, a congressman and conspiracy fantasists have repeated the myth. But three kinds of evidence point to more than 218,000 U.S. deaths
Related: Washington Post (13 expert tweets ->)
You can see more links from the last 7 days on the website: https://covidexperttweets.com/top_links?period=last_7