#Immunity

Dr. @sdbaral has an excellent guiding philosophy here.As someone who entered science to curiously question the answers, I've found epidemiology during COVID to be characterized by strong informal social control
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many seem convinced sweden is having a significant second wave of covid, but i suspect it's mostly an artifact of aggressive counting. any death for any reason within 30 days
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As US corona cases spike, it is worth pointing out that a LOT of people predicted this about a month or two ago. It was clear then that the re-opening
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Yes!I ask every single patient, “are you planning to vaccinate when you can?”I’ve made some progress in hearing (and directly addressing) pt concerns & fears. I tell them I’m recommending
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I am a mathematical modeler of infectious disease. I believe models are very powerful, valuable, and tell us a lot.https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1340533431638355968 Nate has relied heavily on a model to inform his
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“Is it blue side in or blue side out?”For the first 4 months the UK & US govts told us we didn’t need to use face masks, despite of evidence
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The lockdown was implemented by Trump.A thread He declared the National Emergency.He created the White House Task Force.It was mandated by him.The governors implemented it, following his policies, and using
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In the case you pointed out, 200,000 children were vaccinated in 1955 with a batch of defective polio vaccine where the virus was insufficiently inactivated. 200 children suffered partial paralysis
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Taking a stand here for special schools for a number of reasons, all necessary and all for long term gain. 1. Our staff and children are as likely to catch
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spain has done quite a lot of interesting covid tracking.much of it has not made its way into US discourse because it's in spanish.i'd like to share some as it
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Blair is urging world govts to massively increase testing both in scale & frequency everyone & often. This is preposterous. Those with a good knowledge of immunology know with a
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there isn't a lot of transparency or accountability in the vax rollout at federal/state/local level, but the US does have enough vax doses to effectively end the pandemic in 45-60
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1. On #Pardons: I still haven't seen the text of any of these pardons. I've checked Papadopoulos' docket in DC and so far nothing filed. I figured he's active on
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Thread on @tiffanycli’s must-read law review draft, “"Privacy in Pandemic: Law, Technology, and Public Health in the COVID-19 Crisis." https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3690004 My focus here: normalization is
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I recently read The Great Influenza by John Barry. (Thanks to my wife for gifting it to me after I said I wanted to learn more!) While COVID-19 is NOT
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If 2M vaccinated already, and another 1M plus are vaccinated over the next week, then 40% of the total mortality risk from COVID should be eliminated within 3 weekshttps://twitter.com/ReutersScience/status/1348226863907418112 According
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