#Gangelt

Daniel Schwerd bleibt zuhause

netnrd

Ich bin ja sowieso schon kritisch gegenüber der "Heinsberg-Studie" gewesen. Aber ein Punkt hat mir den Rest gegeben. Ein Thread. 1/x Mich störte extrem, dass eine Studie von einer PR-Agentur

J.D. Vance

JDVance1

Some recent data points of interest: First, German researchers studied a hard hit town. High level takeaway: 14 percent of the town had antibodies, 2 percent had recent infection, .37

Tim Skellett

Gurdur

1/n #Gangelt is a small town & municipality in Germany, right on the border with the Netherlands, very near Maastricht. A special in-depth serological + etc. study, the “#Covid19 Case-Cluster-Study",

Midwestern Hedgie

MidwestHedgie

Another day, another brutally flawed study going around flu bro (bra?) twit. Here's the study: the author's tested residents of Santa Clara Co, CA to see if they had antibodies

Dr. Robert Rohde

RARohde

This is SO important. Preliminary results from the first COVID-19 antibody survey of an affected community.Heavily impacted town of Gangelt, Germany:14% of 500 randomly sampled people were antibody positiveImplied infection

Old Life

oldlife

"One possibility is that Germany classifies deaths differently. There is no settled, universally applicable way to decide whether a particular death should be attributed to the virus. Maybe Germany is

Alex Washburne

Alex_Washburne

@inschool4life, Nathaniel Hupert and I recently crunched some numbers suggesting millions of undetected COVID cases in the US the month of March.What have we learned since then, what do we

Tony McKelvie

TonyMcKelvie

A clumsy thread on ‘Getting out of Lockdown’. Some hard choices.The usual Dummies caveat applies – for and by.1/an absurd number... Coronavirus has reached virtually every country in the world.

Philip Oltermann

philipoltermann

My correspondent colleagues and I have taken a closer look at how social gatherings turbo-charged the spread of Covid-19 around the world. One takeaway: what if the Corona crisis isn’t

Steve Deace

SteveDeaceShow

Thread on this story from MIT about a German #coronavirus antibody test, which seems to bury its own lead and I think actually has quite promising data.https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/09/999015/blood-tests-show-15-of-people-are-now-immune-to

John

curiousfante

The initial hope seemed to be that if enough people were infected and recovered, the potential of immunity (and subsequent herd immunity) could allow some earlier gradual return to activity.

Alex is declustering crises

alxrdk

Some Interesting points in the _preliminary_ results on representative antibody testing in Heinsberg, the region with the first larger #COVID19 outbreak in Germany.https://twitter.com/hbergprotokoll/status/1248174994816991232 Study asked 600 househol

Vincent Glad

vincentglad

1/ Une hypothèse : et si, outre le confinement, la mesure la plus efficace contre le Covid-19 était simplement l'interdiction des rassemblements de plus de 10 ou 20 personnes ?Cela

Dan Rosenheck

DanRosenheck

THREAD re the "everybody's-got-it" school of covid truthery, which my story this wk in @TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/11/why-a-study-showing-that-covid-19-is-everywhere-is-good-news, based on study by @in

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

Health Nerd

GidMK

Today, this new preprint from John Ioannidis (of "Most Published Research Findings Are False" fame) went onlineAlready up to Altmetric of 541Let's do a rapid peer-review on twitter 1/n 2/n