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Tony Fauci says the US death toll is ‘going to be very disturbing’, even when you consider the 120k+ lives lost already. He’s right. I would optimistically estimate that the
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Against a backdrop of justified unrest across the US - as different places ‘open up’ to a greater or lesser extent, there remains a lot of confusion about what to
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This thread is valuable for a *lot* of reasons in its own right. I am going to use it as an eg of the importance of sampling and genomic epidemiology
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on reopening & what to look for. States are to greater or lesser extents and with more less clear plans, exiting ‘lockdowns’ designed to prevent spread of the virus. Experts
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The numbers are in and they are not good. The best early serology results point to this being about 5 to 10 times more deadly than seasonal flu (note there's
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One of the things scientists do when facing an outbreak of a new disease is build 'phylogenies'. These estimate how pathogen isolates are related by comparing their genomes, and using
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Who feels like a sobering wake up call? Well here goes. This paper from @hsalje et al (inc @SCauchemez) examines what we can learn from France’s initial surge in the
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For all those who ask what i am doing in the pandemic, in terms of infection control, a short thread 1/n every time I enter the house I wash my
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A brief morning thread on the emerging results from antibody testing. There is a lot of interest in these as being able to nail down how many people might have
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Ok. Here's a little insight into the life of an infectious disease epidemiologist trying to handle uncertainty and report responsibly. Warning - the coming thread will contain many "i'm not
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