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Margot Sanger-Katz
sangerkatz
In the Covid winter, it's hard to know what's safe, and what's appropriate. We asked 700 epidemiologists how they're living. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/upshot/epidemiologists-virus-survey-.html @clairecm @qdbui Their
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tyro
DoubleEph
The more I read about mRNA, the more I’m in awe of how it makes the old process of making vaccines (which have worked ok for a while) look complicated
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𝓝𝓸𝓼𝓯𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓾
FourWinns298
1/ Funny how this account has evolved. Its original purpose was to help people understand COVID, its epidemiology, and how to best avoid contracting it. As treatments and vaccines got
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TheLongerGame
TheLongerGame
So the vaccine is oven ready from next week For a disease that has not scientifically been proved to existThat Matt Hancock is heavily invested in A RNA vaccine that
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Jake Tapper
jaketapper
We do more testing because COVID19 is spreading worse here than in any other wealthy Western nation!With less than 5% of the world’s population, the US has, per official numbers,
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zei_squirrel
UK population: 66.65 million, vietnam population: 96.46 million they even saved brits who would have died if they had been in the UK here is an account of why vietnam's
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Aris Katzourakis 💙 (for UCU NEC)
ArisKatzourakis
SHORT THREAD: On misinformation surrounding virus evolution and COVID-19. As we move towards the phase of the pandemic where evolution can play a role in the outcomes, it is inevitable
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zeynep tufekci
zeynep
Heard about the new variant? That it appears to be much more transmissible but not more lethal? That's true but no relief. Transmissibility is an *exponential* risk and thus a
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Soumya
skarlamangla
I feel like I'm hearing this a lot, so I'm going to try to explain why it doesn't work to get tested Tuesday or Wednesday before Thanksgiving and then be
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Ewan Birney
ewanbirney
I know this is obvious, but in the UK the lifting of restrictions on the 4th of July (allowing households to mix and stay overnight with responsible behaviour) is *not*
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Natalie E. Dean, PhD
nataliexdean
Japan didn’t need to hire large teams of contact tracers. They were already in place. Nurses at their public health centers routinely contact community residents to provide health education and
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Michael Mina
michaelmina_lab
THREAD: Maybe you’ve heard about Ct values in the qPCR test and viral loads. So what’s a Ct value, why is higher Ct a lower viral load, what’s it have
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Robert Peston
Peston
Another striking characteristic of today’s @bankofengland projections is that UK GDP, or national income, is set to shrink by 11% for the whole of 2020, a record. We are losing
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Mark R. Levin
marklevinshow
1. Remember this, Joe? Remember how you and your administration screwed up the swine flu pandemic? It went about as well as those shovel ready jobs you were in charge
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InProportion2
InProportion2
1/3What happens when Govt stresses a message of VIRUS DANGER DANGER DANGER for months on end?In Portugal, a fictional TV teen drama disease outbreak had 300 students experiencing rashes, dizziness
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Michael Redmond
mredmond88
Nice to see new virus cases starting to trend down in some parts of Europe. Looks like the US and perhaps the UK have a lot of work left to
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