#Immunity

Matt M - Just A Concerned Citizen

MMunzan

As a liver transplant patient, I probably know more about the human autoimmune system then this guy does. Am I a Doctor? Nope. But I have to take drugs to

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

Really worrying document from SAGE published, modelling 'population immunity'."When R is 1.1, only 9% of the remaining susceptible population need to be infected for R to fall to 1, solely

Dr. Faran Ahmad ⚕️🆔

drfaranahmad

SARS-CoV-2 is getting all these strange mutations . Do I need to get worried, as the vaccine may not work?? The simple answer is: Mostly Likely NO - SARS-CoV-2 is

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

I should be qualified to comment on the covid-19 pandemic. I'm a computational/system biologist working on infectious diseases and have spent five years in a world class 'pandemic response modelling'

Eric

IAmTheActualET

Hey @RexArcherMD, director of @KCMOHealthDept as you and @QuintonLucasKC hold the people of KC hostage with the threat of another lockdown if we don’t “behave” with ineffective mask policies I

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

If you want to come up with a prior* for the possible long-term dynamics of SARS-CoV-2, there are two recent papers that I think are useful... (*Prior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_probability) 1/ First,

Eric Topol

EricTopol

While the United States has made a U-turn, India is on a very worrisome trajectory Why did the US make a U-turn in new cases?It isn't entirely clear but there

Dr. MAAWEYA ELAEED

DrMaaweya

10 months into the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, what we have learned1.SARS-CoV-2 is not only emergent virus we have to concern about.2.SARS-CoV-2 is going to be circulating and stay with us forever.3.I

Ken Morrison

KenMorr56405221

People like to point to Sweden as a country that beat the virusSweden, with one of the healthiest population in the world has a death rate of 57 per 100,000Canada

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

I am going to make time later today to please write out the history of measles to this group as I think it will be illustrative. We do not test

Matt McCarthy

DrMattMcCarthy

COVID question I've been getting: Why do I need a vaccine when there's a 99.7% survival rate? It's a fair point (and makes for a lively discussion!). Here is my

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

The Great Barrington declaration, a dangerous ideology grounded in pseudoscience promoted by libertarians with vested interests has now embraced the government's policy as the 'focused protection' strategy they outlined.We shoul

COVID19 Digest

Covid19Digest

The moving goal posts and lies of #COVID19 deniers:- It's just NY problem, the rest of us have nothing to worry about.- New cases are low around the country anyway.-

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

Japan can teach us that transmission is NOT the issue, diet is. Despite widespread mask use, Covid19 spread like wildfire in Tokyo, yet the mortality in Japan is among the

Dr Clare Craig

ClareCraigPath

Test always perform worse than hoped when used in real world situations. What's key here is that the antibody tests used pre-COVID blood as a negative control. They were designed

David Boulware, MD MPH

boulware_dr

Important finding that 50mcg @moderna_tx vaccine dose (1/2 dose) generated the same #SARSCoV2 antibody response as the regular dose. This would double vaccine supply. This important finding will no doubt

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