#Immunity

I’ve read three completely different bits of journalism today, pointing to the fact that the UK is completely busking it. Firstly, this FT article from this morning (remember this morning!
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"We have a bunch of yahoos out in front of Queen's Park sitting there protesting that the place isn't open," Doug Ford says in response to protesters who want Ontario
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I'm gonna say this, one more time.Herd immunity is the process by which vulnerable people are protected by the rest of the population being immune, therefore preventing transmission of infections.
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1/ My thread on T-cell immunity got about 7 million views.It's great to see so many people interested in understanding the science and medicine of this pandemic, even in a
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I'm seeing people mean (at least) two different things when they use the phrase "flatten the curve" and they have different (somewhat opposite) implications for when the peak will be
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1/An updated look at what’s happening with Sweden’s approach, starting with below from 2 days ago.Ambassador @OlofsdotterK had predicted late April that Stockholm could reach herd immunity sometime in May.
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1. We don’t have a vaccine for HIV yet. We may not have one for Covid-19 for a couple of years. Unlike HIV, Covid-19 can be spread without any physical
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Since the #ChauvinTrail ended, I am hearing the media push that cops will quit if we remove qualified immunity and start holding them accountable. Some cops might. That’s fine bc
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I'm dumping this here so instead of having to answer people over and over again I can link them to this because I'm already sick of it. You stop producing
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A new paper is out exploring the impact of heterogeneity on the herd immunity threshold.It explores two types of heterogeneity- variation in susceptibility - and variation in contact rate.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.2
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This looks like it should be real. A young healthy patient was apparently reinfected with SARSCoV2 4.5 months after the first infection, this time with a different strain of virus.https://twitter.com/cwylilian/status/1297830744509698050
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1) Pulling together feedback and incremental thoughts to yesterday's thread on how the next month will shape the next year for the market and the economy given the unusually high
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New study of 200 #COVID19 patients, many with mild or no symptoms, suggests that up to TWICE as many people than detected by antibody tests may be immune, based on
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'Infection blocking immunisation' to #COVID19 lasts for longer than might have been anticipated at the beginning of the pandemic (~1-2 years on average). 'Symptom reducing immunity' likely for far longer
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WHAT WE AMERICANS NEED MOST FROM OUR POLITICAL LEADERS AND MEDIA IS TRUTH. We are intelligent enough to follow reasonable guidelines. If you are health/immune compromised, stay home take appropriate
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Let's talk about vaccine hesitancy: aka the topic I personally understand the least and am therefore the most invested in better understanding holistically.https://www.wbaa.org/post/vaccine-hesitancy-barrier-herd-immunity-there-s-more-i
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