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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
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Zacheaus Akanni
zacchie_
ON THE ISSUE OF AMAECHI SELLING NIGERIAThe provision in the agreement with Export-Import Bank of China causing this brouhaha is Article 8(1) of the agreement, which states that “the borrower
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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
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Adam Kucharski
AdamJKucharski
What happens when a population reaches herd immunity? Does it mean epidemics suddenly stop forever? Unfortunately not... 1/ The herd immunity threshold is when susceptibility is reduced to point where
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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
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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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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
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Tamoria Jones
icedsweetee
More interesting facts on ERCOT: The Texas Supreme Court has agreed to review a lower court's ruling that the state power grid manager is entitled to sovereign immunity, a legal
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Thijs
notmobydick
Am I correct in the assumption that allowing the virus to spread among the "young and healthy" with stronger immune response means allowing for the conditioned emergence of variants even
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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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Victoria Fox
drvictoriafox
I’m assuming the media’s new found interest in T-cells is directly related to Scott Atlas, and his much needed (all be it simplified) public update on the science of COVID
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Apoorva Mandavilli
apoorva_nyc
NEW!!! So. we've all been hearing stories of reinfection with the coronavirus. And they're alarming. But they are just that--stories, without solid evidence. It may seem like this virus is
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Rebekah Jones
GeoRebekah
Having some issues with the site while ESRI does "system maintenance," but trying to get everything updated now. +7,023 new cases (1.79 million total)+238 new deaths (28,526 per @HealthyFla; 33,697
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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
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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
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Dr. Angela Rasmussen
angie_rasmussen
Earlier this week, I tweeted that the headlines around the antibody study from the UK were misleading, and that the study doesn't actually suggest that immunity is waning.https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1321093259351961600 I
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