#Seroprevalence

Megan O'Driscoll

meganodris

Our analysis on age-specific mortality and immunity patterns of SARS-CoV-2 has now been published @nature. We look at COVID-19 death data in 45 countries and 22 serostudies to investigate the

Brumby

the_brumby

As California COVID cases plummet despite the “reopening” (chart below), it is worth revisiting this CDC study showing ~2% seroprevalence of COVID in California in December 2019. Many panic-purveyors dismissed

Steve Brown

stevebrown2856

(1/13) The curious case of COVID-19 trends in London vs the rest of England, and the case for resistance in the population: A thread. The graph below shows the trend

Leila Mechoui ☃️

leilamechoui

Ok so guess what everyone, I did read that excess death paper from the CDC and it's not some extraordinary dismissal of Briand's article, which was posted and then retracted

Health Nerd

GidMK

John Ioannidis, of "Most Published Research Findings Are False" fame, has now had his paper on IFR publishedLet's do one, final, twitter peer-review on the study 1/n 2/n You can

Maestro ☈ayo

maestro_rayo

Time for a C19 hotspot update. In no particular order let's look at:* NYC* London* Manaus* Stockholmand Bruxelles. 1/ NYC: Hospitalizations and deaths. 2/ London: Hospitalizations and deaths in hospital.

Ryan McNamara 🧬

Ryan_Mac_Phd

The J&J vaccine reportedly confers 85% protection after 1 month. Some suggest this could be improved with a booster. About that...J&J vaccine uses a replication-incompetent adenovirus (Ad26) to deliver the

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

Seeing papers make the rounds that the herd immunity threshold may be much lower than the rough approximation 1-1/R0. Maybe, but let's slow down a minute.#1. There is still way

Atomsk's Sanakan

AtomsksSanakan

PapersOfTheDayhttps://twitter.com/AtomsksSanakan/status/1288589472452534273"SARS-CoV-2 in rural Latin America. A population-based study in coastal Ecuador"https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa1055/58769

Deepta Bhattacharya

deeptabhattacha

1. First the thanks: @tyler_ripperger @JenniferUhrlaub, Rachel Wong, Makiko Watanabe, Ryan Sprissler, Janko Nikolich-Zugich, @UAZHealth, @UAZBIO5, @ImmunobiologyUA, and many others not on Twitter. Huge amt of work.https://medrxiv.org/cgi/co

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

Immunity Update: We have more data on why people exposed to COVID dont seem to get COVID. @ASlavitt 1. Immunity from unrecognized prior infection:Up to 80% of COVID is asymptomatic.

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

What is "fatality" of COVID19? Still lots of confusion out there about case fatality rate (CFR) and infection fatality rate (IFR). One is what you want to know but almost

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

It's notable that many countries in Europe now have similar stringency of control measures as Sweden (based on Oxford index). But there are a couple of important things to bear

david friedberg

friedberg

there isn't a lot of transparency or accountability in the vax rollout at federal/state/local level, but the US does have enough vax doses to effectively end the pandemic in 45-60

(((E. Glen Weyl)))

glenweyl

There were roughly two approaches to the disease taken by developed countries, one I will call “socio-technical” and was used primarily in Asia and Australasia, but also in some notable

Sargon Maradkel

TheRealMaradkel

This is a weekly reminder it's been: 103 DAYS since Dr. Ioannidis @METRICStanfordconducted a study that concluded people

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