#Immunity

Anne Mueller

Mller6Anne

initially we knew very little about Covid-19. It was a new virus on the scene. By now we know a lot more about it and there are no valid arguments

Cab Davidson #FBPE

gnomeicide

Average time between someone catching Covid-19 and dying is 23 days. We're not yet 3 weeks into lockdown. We locked down -well after- people were starting to at an increasing

Nsikan Akpan

MoNscience

Some say that herd immunity achieved via regular ol' infection can stop the COVID-19 outbreak and return life to normal History says they're wrongFor @NatGeo, I dive into herd immunity's

Question Portland

QuestionPDX

THREAD: Demand COVID antibody test production be prioritized! We may *already* have herd immunity. Antibody tests ("serological surveys" in the quote below) are available, if only we focus our efforts

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

A brief morning thread on the emerging results from antibody testing. There is a lot of interest in these as being able to nail down how many people might have

Helen Clark

HelenClarkNZ

1/2 New normal post #Covid_19 won't look like the old. "Until we develop a vaccine against it, we won’t be able to return to the way things used to be"

Kidney warriors

kidney_warriors

Kamlesh Ahuja, 40 year old on Dialysis since 20 years questions, is a 45 year healthy more eligible than a 40year on dialysis visiting hospital 3 times a week?? Pragati

Justin Hart

justin_hart

"...we will see more deaths because of social distancing."Take a moment and watch Dr. Knut Wittkowski, former head of Rockefeller University's Dept of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Research Design.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGC5sGdz

Benazir Shah

Benazir_Shah

Why is it imp to find asymptomatic carriers of the virus?"Because of asymptomatic spread of the coronavirus, we’re going to need a lot more testing and have public health officials

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

Tony Fauci says the US death toll is ‘going to be very disturbing’, even when you consider the 120k+ lives lost already. He’s right. I would optimistically estimate that the

Sam Horwich

samhorwich

Sad to see two leftist professors from @harvardmed join the right wing attack on the *lockdown proponents*, a term which in itself is a straw man. A thread 1/nhttps://jacobinmag.com/2020/09/covid-19-pandemic-economy-us-response-inequality?f

Gro-Tsen

gro_tsen

I'd say there are two different approaches to understanding and modelling the way population heterogeneity affects the attack rate and/or herd immunity threshold for an epidemic: top-down or bottom-up. •1/19

Clive Peedell

cpeedell

Trying to achieve “herd immunity” to #COVID19 through infection rather than a vaccine is a very bad idea. This is not only because health services will be overwhelmed, leading to

Aaron Ginn

aginnt

1/ A new interview from Sweden's Anders Tegnell.- They approached this pandemic like other pandemics- Hospital system was never overloaded- Immunity does exist- Skeptical of masks + contact tracing -

DSG

thedsggroup

Turns out Priti Patel has been trying to implement a strategy to combat women getting battered by their partners, rather than wasting time attending press conferences with journalists who don't

TheLongerGame

TheLongerGame

@carlheneghan Why is nobody talking about the minimum of 99 days that the super spreading virus was in UK before lockdown? Mindful that during this time there was no lockdown,