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Michael Baym
baym
Excited to share my latest preprint with @LeeKShaffer and @BillHanage, “Perfect as the Enemy of the Good: Using Low-Sensitivity Tests to Mitigate SARS-CoV-2 Outbreaks” in which we show how the
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Bill Hanage
BillHanage
This is part of a long and excellent thread that is worth reading in its own right. I am almost entirely in agreement. With the exception that I want to
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𝓝atalie 𝓡ogers
LeiaShotFirst
Once again, this goes to show the fundamental misunderstanding of this virus that is pervasive among the public and people like Nate who think they understand. 1/xhttps://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1329830923899187202 It's actuall
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Natalie E. Dean, PhD
nataliexdean
Half-baked thoughts about superspreading and contact tracing. With the existence of pre-symptomatic spread, the serial interval for this virus is quite short, making forward contact tracing challenging. 1/5 Japan’s cluster
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Audi Kiskowski Byrne
a_haema
In local schools systems, we see the pattern that some schools will have a relatively large and dramatic outbreak. In one of these large outbreaks that make global news, fifteen
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⬆️Ventilation⬆️--⬇️#COVIDisAirborne risk⬇️ -Save💙
grahamja51
1. COVID-19 Superspreading Thread As the mutant variant seems to spread more easily - it's important to remember that the COVID-19 virus spreads quickly given the ideal super spreading conditions
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Jose-Luis Jimenez
jljcolorado
1/ Science: extensive genomic analyses in Boston show the importance of superspreading"More than 120 introductions of SARS-CoV-2 into Boston, only a few responsible for most local transmission: 29% of intros
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Dr. Angela Rasmussen
angie_rasmussen
Good and bad news about the Novavax protein subunit vaccine. 90% efficacy in the UK, but only ~50% in South Africa, largely because of the B.1.351 variant. Hopeful news too:
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Karam Bales
karamballes
1/ Month ago I explained how the government guidence and support for schools would lead us to chaotic rotas due to isolations Todays stats unfortunately prove me right It's time
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David Dowdy
davidwdowdy
A counterpoint to the alarm bells that are sounding over novel SARS-CoV-2 variants.Is it possible that we are misinterpreting differences in human behavior as differences in the biological fitness of
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Whitney R. Robinson
WhitneyEpi
1/ Maybe it’s my #epitwitter bias, but I get frustrated by the outsized attention these hospital-based viral load comparison studies (kids vs adults) get. And interpreted as children as a
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Siberian Fox
SilverVVulpes
This is more extreme than even the choir superspreading event, and thus worse from the people defending a pre-existing immunity to infection idea. Attack rate of 85.2%, 104/122 individuals (and
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Infectious Disease Ethics
ID_ethics
1/ Thanks - effectively all superspreading events are indoors.Major risk factors appear to be:- Poor ventilation, crowding, time, perhaps singing (etc.)- Vulnerable individuals (hospitals, nursing homes, etc.)@KoenSwinkels https://www.stops
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Orla Hegarty
Orla_Hegarty
[Thread] Will #Level5 work? Contacts between people are not all high-risk, & research says that most people with #COVID19 only transmit to 1 other person or fewer.. ‘It’s often not
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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne
jmcrookston
Just a reminder that R0 for SARS-CoV-2 may in fact be higher than 2.5-3.5.In fact, perhaps even double that (R0 = 5-7)https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1297571423041585153 (or higher) New variant increases R by 0.4
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Bloomberg Opinion
bopinion
On a full 2-hour flight, one scientist has estimated that about 1 in 4300 passengers will pick up Covid-19, on average.If airlines leave the middle seat empty, only about 1
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