#Immunity

Nick🇬🇧🇪🇺

nicktolhurst

Having spent time discussing COVID with Sweden based friends I’ve reaccessed some of my earlier thoughts on this.I still think the Swedish strategy deeply flawed - particularly if COVID doesn’t

Jones Murphy

JonesMurphy

The number in NYC having Covid-19 antibodies is scientifically certainly greater than the official total infected in the entire USA. The whole counting exercise is just garbage right now. Lots

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Here's an important discussion that people are missing in this polarized environment. Not only can we not remain in full lock-down forever because of its human costs, we should not.

Mike Caulfield

holden

What's really going on, as always, is everyone is interested in that 13%. Which great! Ways to reach them would be welcome. But it's that shrinking light blue bar that's

Adam Hamdy

adamhamdy

1. Tomorrow’s Times. “Britain has painted itself into a corner with no clear exit strategy from the coronavirus epidemic” I wasn’t aware that ‘Britain’ had done anything wrong. In fact

JW Mason

JWMason1

This Jacobin interview making the case for a herd-immunity approach to the coronavirus is really distressingly bad.https://jacobinmag.com/2020/09/covid-19-pandemic-economy-us-response-inequality Weird for a socialist magazine to ignore the

Joshua Weitz

joshuasweitz

Two critical sentences from a critical JAMA Currents article by Dr. David Hains and colleagues (including @florian_krammer):https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2766215/a short thread on 'shield immunity' 1. The prevalence o

Chris Hayes

chrislhayes

Bizarre but not surprising to watch genuinely unknown empirical questions (is chloroquine a safe and effective treatment for Covid19?) get turned into these zero sum culture war battles. There's a

Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH

GYamey

The original idea behind the global vaccine solidarity mechanism, called COVAX, led by WHO, CEPI, & Gavi, was that health workers & high risk people in ALL nations (high-, middle-,

Andrew L. Croxford

andrew_croxford

I want to visit an interesting point featured in Michael Yeadon’s interview. This is the question about levels of pre-existing immunity to #SARSCoV2 in the population due to exposure to

Smarter Every Day

smartereveryday

I have a prediction.We are entering the "post-innocence internet" era.The majority of users understand anonymous discourse is now compromised.Kind of like how you don't answer your phone now unless you

Christian Gollier

CGollier

1/7 To characterize a rational exit strategy to #lockdown , we must combine epidemiology with economics.I am not an epidemiologist, just an economist. Moreover, our date to test our models

Priya Sampathkumar

PSampathkumarMD

Cross reactive immunity to COVID?Several studies now suggest that T cells reactive to COVID may be present even in persons without prior exposure to SARS CoV-2 suggesting presence of cross

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

If epidemic growing, question isn’t really ‘are more restrictions needed?’ The question is ‘given restrictions will eventually have to come in, do you want to have COVID at a high

el gato malo

boriquagato

one of the big questions on covid right now is "did we hit herd immunity or is this just seasonality?"i think we have, in most places, hit herd immunity and

Louis Ates

MycoLAtes

While varnishing my furniture I thought more about this and am now more apprehensive about the risks of #BCG vaccination for Covid-19. Here's why (1/14)https://twitter.com/MycoLAtes/status/1248872807766818818 The idea behind BCG vaccination