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Carl T. Bergstrom
CT_Bergstrom
So many people have sent this to to me today, and I'm going to go against the grain on this one. I acknowledge that the impression that the quotes selected
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The University of Alabama is reportedly threatening faculty that any mention of the COVID situation on campus, even "two students in my class tested positive", constitutes a HIPAA violation. I
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I feel like Sisyphus right after he loses his grip on the boulder. People are finally coming around the realization that high-volume screening of asymptomatic people is a powerful tool
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This bullshit about immunity lasting only three months is everywhere tonight. It's a total misunderstanding.What the CDC said: people are unlikely to get reinfected in the first 3 months.What the
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Damn it, @ABC. That's not at all what the CDC guidelines say, and you're sowing undue fear about reinfection and doubt about vaccine efficacy.If anything, the CDC guidelines say that
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You publish a book, and you get all kinds of unwanted attention. If Twitter allowed us to mute posts from people who do not post under their own names, 99.9%
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Enough book bullshit; back to COVID bullshit.There's an interesting quotation from John Ioannidis at @CNN.https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/02/health/gupta-coronavirus-t-cell-cross-reactivity-immunity-wellness/index.html I've commented el
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This is disappointing.The book was finished before the pandemic began and does not mention it.I have not been advising governments about COVID, unless you count screaming into the howling void
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1. I am optimistic about the prospects for an effective Covid vaccine within a reasonable timeframe. Through phase 2 of numerous trials, nothing has gone spectacularly wrong.(I've written about a
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1. I've written elsewhere about three different roles for COVID testing: https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1274576193333850112But whether you are testing for individual health, surveillance, or mitigation, speed is of the essence.
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As we struggle with the difficult decisions about reopening K-12 schools, one thing I've been unsure about is the degree of transmission by children. A new study from Korea provides
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Good news about the Oxford vaccine, but once again a very high incidence of mild adverse effects.https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53469839 Why do we care about mild adverse effects? 1) mild adverse effects in
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