#Immunity

Back to this: It goes without saying that preventing infection prevents transmission. A vaccine that TRULY prevents infection rolled out in a population will put up roadblocks all over the
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#Lockdowns have probably killed at least the equivalent of about 20 million people just by making our lives worse. That's 3 Holocausts! Quick math: 7,000,000,000 people × 2% of your
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The biggest need is to filter out racists in the police departments. Not defund or abolishThis should be a short thread, but every time I say something like that, it’s
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SWEDEN: hospitalisations from Covid-19 are rising faster than in any other country in Europe, while in Stockholm — the centre for both the 1st & 2nd waves in the country
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lunatic mayor and budding authoritarian eric garcetti has been running a strict lockdown and demanding mask wear in LA for some timeyet reported cases are spiking. so now he wants
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NEW—official full trial results of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in 43,448 people:95% efficacy w/ 2 doses52% efficacy after 1st dose (before 2nd)10 severe cases, 9 were in placeboSerious adverse events low &
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Key takeaways from our interview with @NandanNilekani "It's entirely possible that by January or so, we will have at least one vaccine in India, and it will be pre produced.
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My piece in The Wire on the third national serosurvey. The headline (~21% prevalence) is probably not a major underestimate. Apparently the antibody test used was less vulnerable to missing
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Recent quotes from state epidemiologists & health officials from around the world.... 1/ “The virus has done the so-called 'harvest', has therefore accelerated the clinical path of fragile people. It
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CEE countries: A case study in inevitability of SARS-CoV-2 spreading and seasonality - a THREADEU CEE countries did remarkably well in the 1st wave and were praised as champions. In
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NEW: A court in Belgium jails an Iranian diplomat for 20 years for planning a bomb attack on a rally of exiled opponents in Paris in 2018. Judge says 49
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“”””let people live their lives!!””””1 in every 1,000 Americans dead from COVID. We can’t just slap on a mask and otherwise continue our normal routines. “””just living your life!!!””” only
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I really hate the way anti-vaxers have co-opted, confounded, and corrupted the concept of herd immunity because it's crucial to how vaccines work and why we can't just vaccinate "high-risk
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The biggest difficulty of explaining privacy in the digital age is that effects of surveillance capitalism’s intrusion and manipulation are diffuse and widespread. People think they’re immune to the harms
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Today's my 32nd birthdayI'm grateful to be alive, well & living my dream of helping othersHere are 32 health tips that'll improve your life:THREAD 1. Magnesium is your friend2. Supplements
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The 3 main risks to the vaccines being a panacea narrative has been:1) execution - we got this today2) adoption/usage - ongoing3) a variant strain#3 would be the most shocking.
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