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I am seeing a lot of anxiety around partial immunity through vaccination producing selection for escape variants. Here @colinrussell and I explain why we *don't* think that's likely 1/nhttps://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6540

The severity of covid varies greatly by age, with risks of death in young people often said to be equivalent to those of flu. This is one of the most

This is a very interesting deep dive into the controversial route Sweden took through the spring and summer of the pandemic (HT @AliciaJWeston). A few things stand out...https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/it-s-been-so-so-surreal-critic

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

A short thread on this new Working Paper "Counting the missteps of the U.S. Federal Government's handling of COVID-19" . This is me w Nancy Krieger @_christiantestaJarvis Chen, L Davis,

I feel it is important to call out misunderstandings about what 'herd immunity' means. It is clear from this little thread that @TheEliKlein has no idea. I'm not trying to

There are *so* many things wrong with this, starting with the implicit suggestion that an individual paper in @TheLancet carries particular merit greater than the body of scientific work as

It is categorically impossible to know exactly when an effective vaccine will be available in advance. Anyone who says otherwise is pulling the wool over your eyes 1/n sure you

Some things worth noting about this. 1) it really does look like a reinfection if the sequence is that different and typical of what is circulating in Spain 1/nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/health/coronavirus-reinfection.html 2)

This is a phenomenal article on the potential of different sorts of testing, and the ways that we are limited by demands for sensitivity and specificity. There's one important thing

A few thoughts about language and the pandemic. We are hearing a lot of talk of ‘second waves’, which I think has the capacity to seriously mislead. Talk of a

Can we forecast the near future of the pandemic with data we have now? That’s the goal of this work led by @MauSantillana. The idea is simple;in pandemic activity will