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David Steadson 🇦🇺🇸🇪🇪🇺🌍
DavidSteadson
A key graph from Swedish Public Health Authorities press conference today that many may have missed the implications of. The same one was used back in March.Remember "flatten the curve"?
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Will Fithian
wfithian
I have been corresponding with the authors of the well-known Santa Clara County COVID-19 preprint, and I am alarmed at their sloppy behavior. The confidence interval calculation in their preprint
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Trevor Bedford
trvrb
There is a lot of Twitter chatter surrounding a rumor that circulation of #COVID19 in California in fall 2019 has resulted in herd immunity. This is empirically not the case.
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KenOliveLab
KenOliveLab
If your medical center hasn’t been hit by the pandemic yet, get ready. Much will happen very fast. PPE will run out. Labs will shutter. ERs will overflow. How can
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Health Nerd
GidMK
It's been coming up a lot lately, so I thought I'd do a bit of a thread on CONVENIENCE SAMPLES and why they aren't great for assessing POPULATION PREVALENCE of
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Benjamin Thibault
ThibaultBen
Do differences in case loads explain Alberta's urban/rural divide on approval of COVID measures? Not really, no. At least not with Wave 2. [Thread] #ableg #abhealth I've heard it speculated
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Christian Althaus
C_Althaus
Im gestrigen #10vor10 behauptet @srfnews, dass die von der Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force kommunizierte Infektionssterblichkeit die Dunkelziffer nicht berücksichtigt. Das ist leider falsch. (1/9)https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/
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Alasdair Munro
apsmunro
So why aren't we seeing kids with COVID-19? Is it because they're not getting it, or just not sick enough to go to hospital?Iceland tested 6% of their whole population.
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Amar Kelkar MD
amarkelkar
“neutralizing” Igs to SARS-CoV2 spike protein at median 29 days after 2nd mRNA vaccine dose (85%46% of 658 still w/o measurable Igs; 57% of 473 on IST). Low ORR!Surrogate endpoint
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Kai Kupferschmidt
kakape
#covid19 presser @WHO starts with @DrTedros saying almost 2,5 million cases have now been reported to WHO and more than 160,000 deaths. "We see different trends in different regions and
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Michael Mina
michaelmina_lab
ImportantThis virus is not happening in a vacuum where no information existed previouslyOn Immunity, On testing, On serology, On transmission, On masks, On treatments...We must stop this narrative that we
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Justin Lessler
JustinLessler
We had two preprints out last week. They might seem unrelated, but have lots to do with each other. In this thread I will outline the results and what they
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John Mandrola, MD
drjohnm
Thread on a potential silver lining of #COVID19 My friend @BenMazer is a pathologist and he's noticed huge declines in specimens obtained for cancer diagnoses. Reason: hospitals have stopped elective
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Alasdair Munro
apsmunro
People can't stop talking about schools and #COVID19 Here's a thread on school transmission studies!Summary:- If prevalence high in the community, it will be high in schools and some will
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Peter Kolchinsky
PeterKolchinsky
Now this is a covid antibody test! Not only looks good on its face w/ 100% sensitivity (likelihood of seeing antibodies if they are there) & 99.8% specificity (not seeing
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Eric Topol
EricTopol
We have the protocols. Now we know how there will very likely be an Emergency Use Approval (EUA) for a vaccine prior to November 3. The company and political motivations
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