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Prof Francois Balloux
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One intriguing aspect of the #COVID19 pandemic is the extent to which it has exposed current ideologies such as the current left-right divide for their hollow tribalism, rather than carriers
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The debate about how to respond to the #COVID19 pandemic is often framed as a scientific, or a scientific/economic problem. I do not believe it really is. Instead, it is
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One intriguing aspect about the #COVID19 pandemic is that we still have no good idea about the virus' Infection Fatality Rate (IFR), and we don't even seem to be making
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There seems to be a common fundamental misunderstanding of the concept of herd immunity, which leads to unhelpful cross talk. Herd immunity is not more (or less) a harmful concept
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"There is no getting 'back to normal,' experts say. The sooner we accept that, the better"This is possibly the most damaging message in terms of public health and I believe
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One worry I have about a side-effect of the #COVID19 pandemic is that some our societies might turn into de facto 'technocracies'. I find the current obsession with statistics, diagnostics,
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Another meta-analysis based on 5 RCTs (5,577 patients) suggesting HCQ was associated with a ~24% [~3%-41%] reduction in a 'compound metric' of #COVID19 infection, hospitalisation and death. No serious adverse
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Herd immunity (community immunity) is not a strategy. It is the process describing that not everyone in the population needs to be immunised before an epidemic recedes. It is at
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There are two positions I can understand as regards how we should deal with #COVID19. The first is that we aim to eliminate it globally. The second is that we
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Freedom, the notion that we have agency and free will in our lives is what makes life worth living to many. Freedom is multifaceted. It includes the freedom of being
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The extent to which #COVID19 can cause sequelae is a critical question. A new study on Swiss military recruits found no effect on strength but a decrease in aerobic capacity
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The instantaneous risk (i.e. at any time point) for a vulnerable person to get infected with #COVID19 in a random mixing population is simply the prevalence of the virus in
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