#Infections

Just realised the government stopped their daily COVID briefings. So I’ll keep track of the daily infection rate via this thread. Mainly for my own curiosity. Stats come from here

Prof Francois Balloux

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Over the coming weeks and months, we can expect a large number of preprints and papers reporting 'breakthrough infections', i.e. infections in vaccinated individuals.1/ Most studies on 'breakthrough infections' will

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

Wrote about why India likely has 25K+ deaths dailyPushback: we lack hard data on crematoriums so we can't be sureTrueBut we get 25K+ deaths no matter how you lookAnother approach:400,000

Crystal Goomansingh

While many counties and cities around the world are seeing infections drop and deaths related to Covid-19 decrease, infections around the world arw not stopping. @DrTedros again said the pandemic

About 60% of all infections are in slums & shanties already. In another week to 10 days, we can expect 80% of all infections will be in dwellings & shanties

_Although I normally prefer not to speculate, there is something strange/interesting with all the covid-19 infections & deaths that has also been noticed by Michael Levitt in his extensive stats

Chise 🧬🧫🦠💉

Let’s talk. Breakthrough infections (infections in vaccinated individuals) are to be expected. Why? The vaccines are not 100%. Never have been. Otherwise, our vaccine trials would all have reported 100%

The entire benefit of delaying restrictions is to allow people to do things that would otherwise be restricted because they increase infections. The decision not to impose restrictions by @jkenney

I very much hope they're just being enormously over-cautious with Boris. The imperial study = someone of his age has a 10% chance of reaching hospital. From there, only 12.2%

Imperial College London has just published projections for Pakistan. @masroorhussnain lays it out here. Sindh govt is doing the right thing. We’ve simplified the data story here. Excel sheet link

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

President keeps saying we have more cases because we are testing moreThis is not trueBut wait, how do we know?Doesn't more testing lead to identifying more cases?Actually, it doesSo we

Covid is more dangerous than the flu (but not for young people). So wear a mask and social distance. Covid does not justify treating covid like airborne ebola -- confining

1. Only a very small number of Americans have access to rapid testing & rapid results (RTRR). Many more can't get tested even with symptoms. Those luckey enough to get

“Smokers may be prone to severe COVID-19 infections, in part, because their lungs contain an abundance of entry points that the virus can exploit.” “COVID-19 infections begin at the ACE-2

States with the 10 highest number of infections per 1,000,000 people.New York 4767.4New Jersey 2881Louisiana 1970.2Massachusetts 1290.2Michigan 1080.5Connecticut 1072.6DC

Lorrie Goldstein

(1) The Ford gov't needs to explain what its daily COVID-19 numbers mean as opposed to constant warnings every day that we have to do better. We were told the