#Seroprevalence

Dr. Joel C. Miller

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Since a recent "lockdowns don't have any impact" thread seemed to get some traction (including being retweeted by a friend of mine who is reasonably quantitative), I thought it would

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

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Some thoughts:- It's still too early to measure the duration and frequency of long-term complications for a new virus, but early evidence suggests they could be important.https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/covid-19-coron

COVID Impact

CovidSerology

A new retrospective analysis of the first 250,000 hospitalized individuals with SARS-COV-2 infection (>20 years) across Brazil may provide some possible explanation for the surge in Manaus. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/artic

Dr Clare Craig

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Antibody levels by government testing have not shown an increase since May. If we have had real COVID cases since May and if we are not at herd immunity then

Dr Clare Craig

ClareCraigPath

Test always perform worse than hoped when used in real world situations. What's key here is that the antibody tests used pre-COVID blood as a negative control. They were designed

Mohal Joshi

MohalJoshi

Thread INDIA COVID-19 casesAfter peaking out at 97k+ new cases per day in middle of Sep 2020, India for the past few weeks has been trending consistently lower for the

Howard Steen

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1/n The ‘Grand Covid Illusion’ is one of a novel virus causing a mysterious deadly new disease that really never was.It is a story of the misuse of science &

Sarah Khan

_sarahkhan

In July @ayesharshahid and @OsmSiddiqi wrote a fantastic short piece puzzling over the skewed gender breakdown of reported COVID-19 cases in Pakistan (**74%** male!) and suggested that a skew in

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

Misleading paper is being promoted as showing that transmission in schools is unlikely and children are less susceptible to #COVID19. Data presented show opposite - equal attack rate in all

Ruminator Dan

RuminatorDan

SWEDEN & UNITED KINGDOM, SARS-CoV-2AN ANALYSIS & DISCUSSION:Despite claims to the contrary the data are clear:The outcomes for both countries have been remarkably similar.This has happened in spite of the

Gummi Bear

gummibear737

Deep Dive!This is an important thread about testing for SARS-CoV-2 which will explain:-why herd immunity is possible at 10-20%-why testing has really let us down and led to bad policy

Apoorva Mandavilli

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NEW: We know children rarely get sick from the coronavirus. A new study shows that they make a less diverse and weaker set of antibodies than adults do, suggesting that

Eric Topol

EricTopol

When we don't measure important stuff.A thread about the immune response to #SARSCoV21. Since serology/IgG can be readily measured, this is what is conventionally used to assess an individual's responseThat's

Shweta Bansal

bansallab

With the rollout of SARS-CoV2 vaccines imminent, many are asking about the scientific evidence behind prioritization strategies. Here, I summarize the evidence from our past work (on influenza) that can

Trevor Bedford

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A follow up to yesterday's controversial thread on societal behavior, population immunity and Rt to specifically address issue of what fraction of the population in Florida, Texas and Arizona may

Dr Zoë Hyde

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(1/17) Study of 2482 parents and 2482 children aged 1-10 years from Baden-Württemberg, Germany, showing that between 22 April and 15 May 2020, parents were more likely to have antibodies

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