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“Hundreds of seroprevalence studies have been done around the world, which vary in quality, methods and the type of tests used”, says @DrTedros at @WHO #covid19 presser. “They tell us

“#Covid19 is an uneven pandemic”, says @DrTedros at @WHO press conference on #sarscov2. “70% of cases and deaths are in just four countries.”(Number seems wrong to me, though general point

Question to my colleagues and the twitterverse in general: Looking back at these past 11 months, what are key quotes about #covid19, the pandemic and the response that have really

“None of these scenarios are palatable.”This assessment of #covid19 scenarios for the next months by SPI-M-O, one of the groups advising UK government, is really interesting. I wish public communication

Good vaccine news continues:@moderna_tx just announced its vaccine has shown 94,5% efficacy.In the study of more than 30,000 participants, 95 #covid19 cases were observed (starting two weeks after second dose):90

Yesterday, I pretended to be a normal infectious disease reporter for a day and wrote about an interesting new preprint: the first report of leprosy in wild chimpanzees. Quick thread

This is big news: Pfizer says early phase 3 data of its #covid19 vaccine developed with German company BioNTech shows it to be about 90% effective in preventing disease with

I suspect we can all use a tiny break from refreshing our browsers and since we’re thinking a lot about vaccines and vaccine delivery these days, let me share sth

Across Europe #covid19 cases are surging and the continent is shutting down again. Germany‘s second shutdown began yesterday, Austria‘s starts today, England is following on Thursday. How did we get

A lot to think about - as usual - in this great piece by @anneapplebaum which delves into one of the questions that occupies me a lot these days and

“Every new disease outbreak presents new challenges but from a logistics perspective, #covid19 has been one of the toughest challenges we’ve ever faced ”, says @drtedros at @WHO presser on

In the first two months of the pandemic, 85,000 cases of #covid19 were reported, says @DrTedros at the start of @WHO presser on #covid19. "In the past two months 6

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