#Endemic

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The World Health Organization has said Coronavirus may end up being an endemic that we will all have to live with forever.An endemic means the disease will be in some

Est. ~389000 people die from flu globally each year. 1 billion cases pa. Costs staggering. That's just seasonal flu ... a virus gone endemic in the human population.What if at

Aris Katzourakis

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[MEDIUM THREAD] On the topic of covid becoming an endemic virus. You hear this a lot; sometimes in response to critiques against strategies of elimination, sometimes just as a statement

One of the problems with the “herd immunity” narrative is that we don’t know the duration of immunity to SARS-COV-2.For other coronaviruses, and different diseases like malaria, immunity is not

The weirdest thing about the whole herd immunity through natural infection argument is that it's never happened ever for any disease long-term so it was always a wild idea for

Sarah Ackley PhD

I'm deeply confused by the so-called herd immunity (aka herd mentality) strategy. I don't just mean that I think this is a bad idea, but I think this strategy is

Jess MF Hughes, Ph.D.

Excellent critical discourse analysis of media coverage around what's happening in Sheikh Jarrah: "Always the story begins when Palestinians' reaction happens...with the symptom of the illness. It never visits the

Herd immunity is back. This article quotes its proponents, and then yours truly and @gregggonsalves on why in the absence of a clear way to protect the vulnerable from a

Getting herd immunity may not work.It may just make the virus endemic.And if you make the virus endemic you won't be able to "protect seniors" or any other vulnerable group.That

Depending on which numbers you look at (infections or deaths), these lag 2-3 weeks, and up to 4 weeks. It takes time for these measures to take effect. April was

Rajeev Venkayya MD

High-risk settings like prisons and meat packing plants are perfect targets for wastewater surveillance. Virus detection triggers universal testing before the outbreak takes off, protecting people and helping plants to

Dr Mark D. Scherz

It's #WorldLizardDay! Let's have a thread about Madagascar's magnificent lizards! First though, a technicality out of the way: snakes are lizards too, so in the following, I am including snakes

1. Reinfection. Whisper it quietly lest you be dismissed as a crank or alarmist. What bothers me about the question of reinfection is that if you talk to a lot

Fauci said that we can start to "relax" social distancing once there are "no new cases, no deaths." Is it just me or is that completely batshit insane? That would

Can we clear something up in this herd immunity/suppression debate? There is NO evidence that "herd immunity" would emerge if covid_19 were to become endemic. None whatsoever. Firstly because it's

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just a reminder that the “judith butler is a bad writer” canard is now and has always been straight-up misogyny. their work has always been read by queers and feminists