#Immunity

Raghib Ali MPH MSc MA(Camb) MA(Oxf) DLSHTM FRCP

drraghibali

Plan B: Why Sweden provides a potential model for us to follow - but not for the reasons most people think - and only if we learn from their mistakes.

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

Epi Weekly. 40 million plus 1. And…NYC is on the brink of a precipice.A minimal estimate is about 40 million infections in the United States with the virus that causes

Professor Ian Donald

iandonald_psych

1. The govt strategy on #Coronavirus is more refined than those used in other countries and potentially very effective. But it is also riskier and based on a number of

David Fisman

DFisman

I'm not sure if anyone's in the mood for this, given the state of N America right now, but I keep getting asked whether another wave of COVID-19 is "possible".I

Eric Topol

EricTopol

When we don't measure important stuff.A thread about the immune response to #SARSCoV21. Since serology/IgG can be readily measured, this is what is conventionally used to assess an individual's responseThat's

Chise 🧬🧫🦠💉

sailorrooscout

Let’s discuss a couple of things.Firstly, vaccines DO NOT “promote mutations.” This is very dangerous and misleading. The only way mutation occurs is when a virus replicates. Vaccination means no

David Nakamura

DavidNakamura

Woman at ABC town hall asks Trump why he doesn’t wear a mask often. Trump: “A lot of people don’t want to wear masks and people don’t think masks are

Jen Heemstra

jenheemstra

Scientific studies have shown that it’s possible to get reinfected with COVID-19, but also that immunity could last for years. How can that be and what does it mean for

Bruno Maçães

MacaesBruno

I am stunned to see serious modelers argue that we should compare infection growth in different countries on absolute terms rather than per capita You are telling me population size

manu #BLM 🖖

trekonomics

The French government is starting to talk about their plan for "déconfinement" – gradual lifting of stay at home. Part of this is probably to maintain public morale, light at

Youyang Gu

youyanggu

Here's a thread that contains my findings regarding the relationship between true infections, reported cases, test positivity rate, and infection fatality rate for COVID-19.Full write-up: http://covid19-projections.com/estimating-true-i

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

The report by the ‘Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team’ has been released on March 16th (https://tinyurl.com/tcdy42y ). Now that things have calmed down a bit, I felt I should produce a

Paul Lewis

PaulLewis

We've seen documents revealing how the American big data firm Palantir and British AI company Faculty are helping build an "unprecedented" UK government database to help respond to the coronavirus

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

Covid Epi Weekly: Immunizing Against Herd StupidityBad week for fight against Covid. Reopening without sufficient care. Failure to isolate. Failure to communicate. Dangerously misguided theory on immunity. Cases increasing, hospitalizations

Bill Mitchell

mitchellvii

It is impossible to prevent all pandemics the same way it is impossible to prevent all wildfires - and pandemics are nature's viral wildfire.So instead of pretending we can prevent

Matthew Feeney

M_feeney

Today the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation committee will hold a hearing on #Section230 featuring Zuckerberg, Dorsey, + Pichai.I want to highlight @CatoInstitute's work on the law and highlight misrepresentations