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Dave Blake, PhD
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The one dose, two dose, issue, for my followers. No answers from me - just pointers to cogent arguments on either side. 1/ A thread from a vaccinologist. He points
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OK, some data, a thread. To prioritize vaccines, it is useful to understand relative likelihood of infection and relative likeihood of death. Here are the proportions of recent cases in
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I dislike anthropomorphizing the virus. The virus just goes into lungs. Replicates. Gets expelled into air and re-infects as long as the rebreathed air containing the virus can find another
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The argument to vaccinate HCWs first is really based on a sense of fairness/justice. They were fighting COVID. We owe them. The competing ethics are those of compassion. COVID is
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There is an obvious concerted push to promote the use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19, again. Once again, a reminder: promotion of off-label use of drugs is illegal and highly actionable.
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So, it looks like this is what is happening. States are not receiving reports from all their hospitals due to the changes in reporting July 10th. A thread.https://twitter.com/audreydutton/status/1286506957881266178 Hospitals now
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OK, every so often, for new followers, a methods thread. This will be good for ppl who like statistics, I hope. I make these plots showing R and infection density.
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College campuses are opening, some of them. What does that mean for faculty? Well, I expect COVID-19 will infect campuses about like Army basic training, where 80% get infected. Let's
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