#Herd

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

We need more information on the immunisation plan. In the two weeks from Dec 8-20 we immunised 616,000 people, say 52,000 per day. With the new Covid variant we might

James One

james00000001

HERD IMMUNITY THREADMy superficial understanding:How To AchieveIt's achieved by enough people getting vaccinated, with a good average efficacy. E.g. 75% of people get 75% efficacy may work. Or 65% of

Joshua Weitz

joshuasweitz

Re-upping a prior thread on joint work on heterogeneity and #Covid19 spread in light of today's @nytimes piece on heterogeneity and herd immunity thresholds; in which we found a way

Grayson (he)

GraysonGoal

If the Covid vaccines that get approved are live vaccines, you need to understand that a ton of people will still be vulnerable -People with many disabilities/chronic illnesses CANNOT get

Youyang Gu

youyanggu

The recent focus on reaching herd immunity through vaccination may be overblown.My modeling suggests that it is increasingly unlikely that the US will reach the immunity levels required for theoretical

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BOTS DRIVING HERD TOPIC ON TWITTER—Scott Atlas promoting Trump’s herd immunity for #COVID19 on Russia Today TV maybe not an accident. Our team as FAS found striking evidence **HALF** of

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

Bill Gates On Covid Vaccine Timing, Hydroxychloroquine, and That 5G Conspiracy TheoryI post this not very interesting piece to remind people that even non scientists know that natural immunity follows

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

I have a few thoughts on this and similar polls that ask people if they'll get vaccinated.1. In the medium run, the limiting factor is likely to be access and

Matthew Brignall, ND

drbrignall

Why those people still arguing for herd immunity are wrong. A thread. 1/430 In my county, we just hit 20k known cases, in a population of just shy of 1M.

wombot 👉👀👈

colourmeamused_

Everyone knows about Manaus right?*sees some blank looks*ok well here’s what I understand...https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n394 Sadly Manaus, a city of 2M in Brazil’s Amazonas ended up being a real life experiment of

Cheryl Rofer

CherylRofer

Now that Dr. Fauci is saying we may need up to 90% immunization for herd immunity, I'll say what I've been thinking in a wonkier way. 1/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/health/coronavirus-herd-immunity.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-n

Dr. Karen James

kejames

Awake at 2am thinking about COVID-19 again…I swear if I hear “herd immunity” one more time as a strategy, I’m gonna lose it.Herd immunity means ~10 million deaths in the

Animal Welfare 24/7

animalwelfare24

Plant based diets. I am barely allowed to communicate here-so the challenge is to use meaningful bullet points (no pun intended) 1. Your masters are deeply, irretrievably yoked to the

Youyang Gu

youyanggu

I launched a new page that shows the path to US COVID-19 herd immunity: http://covid19-projections.com/path-to-herd-immunity/It's built on the assumption that herd immunity will be achieved via vaccination and natural infection.Tl;dr

Stonekettle

Stonekettle

If you wondered how anyone could be so incompetent in the handling of a deadly pandemic, well......it was on purpose. They WANTED us infected. They wanted Americans to become infected

Andrew Bostom, MD, MS

andrewbostom

1/ Indians must have no confusion about how we reached impressive Covid herd immunity: "India’s masses didn’t have the luxury to ‘work from home’ and follow social distancing, but they

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