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Harry Stevens
Harry_Stevens
Curious about how herd immunity works? Want to know how far we are from getting there? My latest #coronavirus story in the @washingtonpost is for you.'A vaccine, or millions of
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Michael Story ⚓
MWStory
A lot of the confusion comes from the 'herd immunity strategy' also being known as 'flatten the curve' or 'mitigation' depending on who's talking and when.https://twitter.com/Birdyword/status/1350051885663870979
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Prof Francois Balloux
BallouxFrancois
The Gomes 'herd immunity' paper is, I believe, mathematically correct. I find it actually useful to conceptualise why 'pandemic waves' die out, well below classical 'herd immunity' thresholds and despite
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Prof Francois Balloux
BallouxFrancois
I'm a bit puzzled that some still deny the concept of 'herd immunity' despite the incoming vaccines. Please let me state this one more time, there's nothing political about herd
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Jerry Dunleavy
JerryDunleavy
“Fauci acknowledged he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts. He is doing so, he said, partly based on new science, and party on his gut feeling that
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David Dowdy
davidwdowdy
I don't usually tweet threads, but I wanted to give 8 reasons why we should consider shifting language away from "herd immunity threshold :: Rt
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Michel Accad
michelaccad
The narrative on herd immunity is clearly changing. On May 1, it was: "Try to reach it without a vaccine and millions will die" /1https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-herd-immunity.html Today, it's a d
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wear a mask
jvinopal
Assuming immunity from covid is even possible, herd immunity is estimated to happen when 67% of the population has been infected. That means 3.35 million citizens of Alabama would have
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Alan U. Kennington
kennington_u
Vaccine "critical herd immunity strength".Let's call it CHIS for now. Assume 100% coverage.Effectiveness E gives CHI if R ≤ 1/(1−E) = CHIS.So E=70% gives CHI if R ≤ 3.33.So CHIS
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Nate Silver
NateSilver538
This seems like a fairly realistic set of assumptions for what to expect on the COVID-19 front next year as vaccinations begin to roll out. Things start to get notably
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Youyang Gu
youyanggu
Wed Feb 10 Weekly Vaccination Update:New vaccinations has been stuck at 900k-1M per day for the past three weeks, while second doses have nearly tripled.New doses distributed remains stubbornly low,
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Michael Mina
michaelmina_lab
This is one of the best reports about immunity to #COVID19It doesn’t sensationalize anything and gets insights from leading immunologists all pointing at the same -> immunity to COVID is
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Jin Russell
DrJinRussell
Simon Thornley, Sunetra Gupta, & a minority advocating for "herd immunity" while shielding high risk groups claim they've been silenced. But Gupta claimed in July that areas like London may
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Harry Stevens
Harry_Stevens
NEW: The U.S.'s pace of vaccinations has sped up. We're at nearly 1.5 million a day. But if we want to get "back to normal" by the end of the
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Sarah Zhang
sarahzhang
I wrote about how all the signs are pointing to herd immunity against COVID-19 becoming impossible. This is how the pandemic ends instead—because yes, it can still end. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/02/herd-immunity-migh
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Joshua Gans
joshgans
It is time for a reminder that the optimal herd immunity strategy requires a hard lockdown. This paper by @LukaszRachel demonstrates the idea. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tVTfyEeD0xTIcZVlvCZvDN95CZ6uVdmU/view [1/3] If the HI threshold
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