#Seroprevalence

Xihong Lin

XihongLin

Our paper “Reconstruction of full transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in Wuhan” is online in Nature. We showed two key features of COVID: High transmissibility (R0=3.5) & high covertness(up to 87%

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

What is #herdimmunity threshold for #COVID19?A topic of much discussion due to large uncertainty & huge consequences for long term impact. New paper illustrates 1 key aspect that can reduce

Eric Meyerowitz, MD

EricMeyerowitz

1/ We've learned so much since the beginning of the pandemic, but we still have not well defined the persistently asymptomatic fractionWhy is it important to describe this group and

Youyang Gu

youyanggu

There's been increasing discussion about the role of immunity vs behavior vs interventions in the spread of COVID-19. Louisiana is a good case study because it's the only state that

Edward Nirenberg

ENirenberg

There's a really dangerous misinformed claim going around relating to COVID-19 vaccines.A while ago there was a trendy idea that part of the hypercoagulability from COVID-19 was because of endothelialitis

Yinon Weiss

yinonw

A short thread about covid herd immunity. First let's look at New York & Sweden. NY wears masks, closed business, closed schools, and mandates social distancing. Sweden did not but

el gato malo

boriquagato

several months back, i posited that the low covid deaths in pac rim could not possibly be from lockdowns or masks.the differential was simply too large, the policies across the

Paul-Olivier Dehaye

podehaye

In 2007, I participated in an Oxford vaccine trial. This was the 1st time chimpanzee adenoviruses were tested on humans. I was the second to be injected w/ this stuff.

Tim Skellett

Gurdur

New thread on #AllisonPearson! Continuing from the old thread linked belowhttps://twitter.com/Gurdur/status/1346027240887300096 2/n Just an idle note on the irony: now that Brexit has happened, UK citizens may not be able

Harald

HaraldofW

1/25 Third comprehensive compiling my graphs but where did it begin? Does anyone remember when stores were all out of toilet paper & #covid19 panic started to build? At

Gummi Bear

gummibear737

Professor Neil Ferguson Deep Dive"Professor Lockdown", as he's nicknamed in some newspapers, is back in the public space and offering his scientific opinions on public health policyAs such, let's take

Alex Washburne

Alex_Washburne

Dr. @sdbaral has an excellent guiding philosophy here.As someone who entered science to curiously question the answers, I've found epidemiology during COVID to be characterized by strong informal social control

Michael Eisen

mbeisen

The media are, rightly, taking a lot of heat for spreading false fears about COVID-19 immunity. But's its worth tracing the origins of this particular case back to where it

Chad Loder

chadloder

Some COVID predictions.1. I think we will see something approaching @balajis’s “Green Zones” in well-resourced, demarcated urban areas like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle even without border restrictions.Boston and

Dr Clare Craig

ClareCraigPath

Let me tell you about a different test. The COVID antibody test. This has demonstrated that only 7% of the UK population had antibodies to COVID in May (it was

Toby Young

toadmeister

But I don't think lockdown sceptics have been consistently more wrong about the virus than lockdown advocates. For instance, the @WHO initially estimated the IFR of COVID-19 was 3.4%. We

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