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Great that attention is remaining focused on #AMR a big problem. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/04/un-meeting-calls-more-action-less-talk-antimicrobial-resistance . But the relentless claims that this is primarily or large

The @aier, the Libertarian think tank on an estate in Massachusetts that offered @MartinKulldorff @SunetraGupta and Jay Bhattacharya a comfy country retreat to write the Great Barrington Declaration clearly states

This thread by @AlexBerenson distorts my work in a way that can only be willful, given that others have made the same arguments in the past on twitter and I

Two of these scientists, @SunetraGupta and @MartinKulldorff, have long been my friends. But I think they are dead wrong without a demonstrated plan for how such shielding would work. There

This is just crazy. Mainstream experts have been trying to get through with almost no success. But take an out-there position and you get access. Of course take extra precautions

I agree with a lot of this thread. Primarily - in any time, but especially these days, it is inspiring to see a government agency release data, get bad press,

Two preprints recently make an important point: for any infection, including COVID-19, it is possible that herd immunity can be accomplished with more than 1/R0 of the population still susceptible.

Comment on https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764658 with @sarahcobey @KeyaJoshi3 shows conclusions change dramatically if use more appropriate Wallinga-Teunis method for R(t) estimation. Comment on the site and at https://github.com/

This article describes a radical approach to (not) managing the COVID epidemic in India. It misrepresents my views worse than almost any article I have ever been quoted in. We

Tonight #DeborahBirx stated that models anticipating large-scale transmission of COVID-19 do not match reality on the ground. Our modeling (done by @StephenKissler based on work with @ctedijanto and @yhgrad and

To further clarify, Eric is not in any way affiliated with @HarvardEpi. He is a visiting scientist, a temporary, usually unpaid (not sure in this case) position in the Dept