#Herd

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boriquagato

the hope-simpson viral seasonality timetable has been running like a well-managed train systemonce you know what to look for, these disease spikes are no more surprising than the 3:10 to

David Dowdy

davidwdowdy

In the past week, COVID cases have fallen in the majority of countries across the globe (see below for weekly change). But not all countries are locked down.A thread on

Amir Attaran

profamirattaran

Three comments:1. If the AZ vaccine can’t stop mild and moderate illness in the South African variant, that’s likely true for the other vaccines too.2. What matters most is stopping

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Sweden’s pro-herd govt official Tegnk was DEAD wrong. With deadly consequences. He predicted Sweden’s spring wave would prevent 2nd #COVID19 fall/winter wave. He was ‘Scott Atlas-wrong’. “Herd immunity” arrogance

Matt Shipman

ShipLives

A lot of people have a lot of questions about the COVID-19 vaccines. I've spent the past week talking to experts to try to answer as many of those questions

Stephen Barlow

SteB777

I believe that Boris Johnson's "moonshot" testing pie in the sky idea, has arisen from the same thinking from which the "herd immunity" idea arose.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/09/what-is-no-10s-moonshot

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

You know people -- maybe you're one of them -- who were sick with Covid, but tested negative for antibodies. Why would that be? Blame the tests. They miss antibodies

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Important: on the resurgence of SARS-CoV-2 in a place where herd immunity was already attained.The authors lay out 4 reasons:1) didn’t actually attain herd immunity2) waning immunity3) new strains evading

Andrey Zarur

andreyzarur

Mutations to the Covid-19 virus in the UK are worrying, but not surprising. There are thousands of known mutations to the virus, it was only a matter of time before

Amanda Makulec MPH

abmakulec

Almost a year ago, I wrote about the complexity of #COVID19 case data. Today, the world is watching the cumulative dose curves of vaccinations.New to vaccine data? Here are 9

Dr Adam Rutherford

AdamRutherford

Spot on analysis by @NafeezAhmed on Toby Young et al's scientifically illiterate yet persistent disinformation campaign under the guise of 'lockdown sceptics' and specious free speech.It is striking that his

Simone

PhoenixMe_

Disappointing to see such misinformation about #mecfs touted by Dr Norman Swan on yesterday’s episode of the coronacast podcast. His comments about long-COVID & ME/CFS lasted less than 1 minute.

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

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

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

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

I've noticed people sometimes use 'herd immunity' to mean 'pathogen fades to zero and stays there' rather than the technical definition (i.e. R drops below 1 because of accumulated immunity,

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