#Infection

G Kang

GKangInd

Received 4th forward of a show, where host states vaccines that prevent disease are *medicine* not vaccines because they do not prevent infection. Let us get this straight, vaccines primarily

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

I sometimes see people making the mistaken assumption that once a group that make up X% of COVID hospitalisations/deaths are vaccinated, it will reduce hospitalisations/deaths by the same %, even

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

A few tweets on a topic that keeps coming up in discussion. There are many different types of vaccine efficacy - efficacy against infection, against transmission, against disease, and against

Oliver Johnson

BristOliver

It's seven weeks since Pretend SAGE told us that there'd be at least 20k more deaths by April at current rates of infection, even without a second wave.https://www.independentsage.org/20000-more-could-die-by-april-at-current-rates-o

Great Barrington Declaration

gbdeclaration

1. Antibodies fade after COVID-19 infection. Does that mean natural immunity fades? How strong will vaccine induced immunity be?That the antibody response fades over time after COVID infections was already

Soumya Swaminathan

doctorsoumya

To counter the confusion between infection and disease, here's a thread on vaccines in the time of covid: 1) Vaccines are designed to prevent disease (symptoms). They are authorized and

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

The way the immune system works is that specific immunity to anything (whether virus or bacteria; first infection or recurrence) will only kick in after the infection gets into you,

Philip Ovadia

ifixhearts

The highest risk of bad outcomes in COVID is in individuals who are exposed to the virus, infected by the virus and metabolically unhealthy. Therefore, there are 3 potentials areas

Danny Boy

Care2much18

Plenty of countries successfully reopened schools with no face mask requirement. Others successfully did it with a mask requirement.Mask or no mask, the key to a successful reopening is very

Amy Proal, PhD

microbeminded2

Welp, interested and yet not surprised to be quoted in this article as essentially the sole advocate for the study of persistent infectious contributions to #MECFS and potentially #LongCovid. @moisesvm

Adam W Gaffney

awgaffney

You probably heard: "We don't know if COVID-19 vaccination protects against transmission."It's an odd statement! Presumably what is meant is: "It almost certainly protects against transmission, but we don't know

Stephen Reicher

ReicherStephen

Infections are spiking. Why? Is it that people are breaking rules that stop the infection or following rules that increase the infection? Should we blame the public or change the

RSSB

RSSB_rail

Rail is still safer than road during Covid-19. Passengers can be a lot more confident about travelling with the risk of infection being less than 0.01% on an average journey.https://www.rssb.co.uk/Insights-and-News/News/Rail-still-safer-tha

Alan McNally 💙

alanmcn1

There is a VERY important fact being diluted at the moment RE Covid testing. In asymptomatics, a negative test result only tells a person they do not have detectable SARS-CoV-2

Chris Gale

DrCGale

With @NPEU_Oxford @Marianfknight @DrDonSharkey @HMactier @ShamezLadhani we publish prospective national data on characteristics and outcomes of neonatal SARS-CoV-2 infection in the United Kingdom, 1 March - 30 April 2020https://www.thelance

Yoong

yoongkhean

Some info on vaccine efficacy. We tend to make the mistake of 95% efficacy (Pfizer) being 95 out of 100 is protected from the disease while 5 out of 100

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