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Hi @bruce_haigh - I can't help with the politics, but I might be able to help with the maths.https://twitter.com/bruce_haigh/status/1380495148816035841 As a person in their 70s in Australia, if you had

OK, has been a long week but will try to explain the ATAGI statement published tonighthttps://www.health.gov.au/news/atagi-statement-on-astrazeneca-vaccine-in-response-to-new-vaccine-safety-concerns Like with all medical treatments, when we

I hope I provided an insight to the thinking behind the roadmap out of Victoria's restrictions today. For some reason, they never show the slides on media conferences, but they

A thread about the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in development. There are a lot of candidate vaccines in development, but we still have a long way to go. Vaccines work by training

A large group of us have expressed concern about The Lancet HCQ/CQ study (10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31180-6). @TheLancet https://zenodo.org/record/3862789#.XtA-b2gzZaT There are many criticisms and anomalies, but a few notes about the Australia

There's been a lot of discussion about "excess mortality", which I've mentioned previously. A short thread about some limitations.https://twitter.com/peripatetical/status/1253115315677888514 This method has been traditionally used f

About how the Australian COVIDSafe app helps with contact tracing. A thread. This is from the perspective of an epidemiologist - I don't have any expertise on the technical or

"Case fatality risk" has various definitions, and it is important to know what it's referring to. This has resulted in substantial confusion when trying to compare influenza and COVID-19. It's

A second thread to explain how the #COVID19 modelling works.https://twitter.com/peripatetical/status/1247402435858944002?s=20 (Stephen Hawking was once told that each equation in his book would lose him half his audience. If the whole

The Australian #COVID19 modelling was published today. My thanks to James McCaw (@j_mccaw) for checking this thread. I’ll do two threads - one explaining the results and how we might

The PM has indicated that the Australian #COVID19 modelling will be published during the week. A thread (part 2; note part 1 with my disclaimers)https://twitter.com/peripatetical/status/1243684739602501633?s=20 There are going to be

Allen Yung's Golden Rules of ID @IDstewardship @davidantibiotic #FOAMed 1. Recurrent rigors are most likely to be caused by bacterial infections. 2. Severe muscle pain may be a symptom of