#Herd

Milhouse Van Houten 😀

Milhouse_Van_Ho

What's suppressing Ontario's "second wave"? Cases (positive test results) are still at record highs despite weeks of new restrictions, yet ICU occupancy and daily new deaths are low.Signs point to

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

HERD IMMUNITY THRESHOLD HARDER—Vaccine herd immunity is becoming harder. The formula is (1-(1/R0)) depends on virus contagiousness, which #B117 variant is 40-80% higher & will be dominant soon. So instead

SafeEdForAll

SafeEdForAll_UK

1/7 As parents, we are concerned ab insufficient Covid19 control in schools. Govt now admits students spread it. We have made proposals (see pinned tweet). But govt ignores us &

Burrowed In

Rechanmole

But, let me tell you a story.There was a psychology experiment where three people sat in a room doing a test. The room slowly started filling with smoke.When the test

Maajid أبو عمّار

MaajidNawaz

THREAD on WHO & herd immunity:Without explanation, the World Health Organisation @WHO appears to have *changed* their definition of “herd immunity” from June to November 2020 by explicitly removing “immunity

Maria Haskins

MariaHaskins

As a person who is currently reading fiction in order to make recommended reading lists and nominate for awards, I can tell you with heartbreaking certainty that AN ABSOLUTE ELEPHANT-HERD-TON

J.B. Handley

GenRescue

1/ this thread is a repudiation of Fauci’s absurd pronouncement that we need 90% for herd immunity. He’s simply a vaccine salesman. Start w reading this by Doshi of BMJ.https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3563

Allen Cheng

peripatetical

Why would we use a vaccine that mightn't prevent transmission? Should we use one particular vaccine, or roll out the vaccines we have as broadly and quickly as possible? I'd

Michael Rosen

MichaelRosenYes

Just in case there are people who want to make me into a lock down zealot, I'll just say that I don't know anymore than any other non-expert whether that's

Sonia Sodha

soniasodha

Will the *scientists* who detrimentally underplayed risk of Covid reflect? It’s not science if you don’t reflect on what you got wrong & why. Hope they’ll be as public about

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

THINK LIKE AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST: Lately I have been asked why we are seeing a dramatic turnaround in cases in the US. Is it vaccines? Herd immunity? An artifact due to

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

Second wave in Vietnam, Australia, China, Japan, and news of more cases in other Asian countries.“Vietnam is evacuating 80,000 people, mostly local tourists, from the central city of Danang after

Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH

GYamey

I want to share my thoughts, as someone who has been so alarmed by the so-called "dissident" scientists like Gupta, Heneghan, Kuldorff, Bhattacharya, & Ioannidis who consider themselves brave Galileos

Dan the Gnome

brewergnome

So this article's been going around! It can be a bit scary. First and probably the most important thing: This doesn't change what we do. We still vaccinate or shield

Andrew Lilico

andrew_lilico

We know that creating shielding bubbles is feasible, because we have successfully created them for elite athletes. We cld, had we chosen to, creating shielding bubbles for the elderly &

President-elect Gabriel Rench

GMRench

Idaho COVID thread, because the narrative is out of control. Our governor's press conference today is irresponsible and frankly disgusting. He brought out a patient who had pretty bad and

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