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In this piece by @rddysum, I am on record (again) stating that the vaccines will substantially reduce overall infections. I know some of my immunology colleagues think I am being
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This article is not too bad in the grand scheme of things, but I admit I had a visceral reaction to the headline--'Not this again!' h/t @KurtadikarKetan. There are important
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Those who follow me know that alarmism isn't my style. But the new UK variant does have me a bit concerned. I'm not qualified to critically assess changes in transmissibility,
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Tangent: this study estimates the natural inoculum at only a few thousand infectious viruses. https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/12/573/eabe2555 Other estimates using different methods have landed in the same ballpark. https://www.medrxiv.o
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Kept meaning to do this thread on the duration of vaccine immunity, but got paralyzed b/c of length. So instead I'll break it up into 3 pieces, becoming increasingly geekier
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Two questions on vaccine efficacy keep coming up: 1) How long will immunity last? 2) Will it limit overall infections/transmission, and not just symptomatic disease? Q1 is exactly what my
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I received this email from someone last week that I can't stop thinking about. I probably received this since I have been openly optimistic about vaccine efforts. So I wanted
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1. First the thanks: @tyler_ripperger @JenniferUhrlaub, Rachel Wong, Makiko Watanabe, Ryan Sprissler, Janko Nikolich-Zugich, @UAZHealth, @UAZBIO5, @ImmunobiologyUA, and many others not on Twitter. Huge amt of work.https://medrxiv.org/cgi/co
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