#Immunity

Sabian Muhammad

TheRealSabian

Steve Jobs said “you can’t connect the dots looking forward only backwards” so let’s go backwards a sec:11 March: Dr Halpen declares that ‘herd immunity’ is something being looked at

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

(1/5) Perhaps 20-50% of people already have T cells which recognise the virus causing #COVID19. This study shows that these T cells result from past infections with the coronaviruses which

Dr. Robert Rohde

RARohde

So, I made a little animation trying to explain how herd immunity works.When enough of the population has been vaccinated, a disease is no longer able to spread effectively, protecting

Edward Nirenberg

ENirenberg

There's a thought I've had that's been bugging me and I'd love feedback from the pros on this point: I really don't like the term "natural immunity" to describe the

Meet Shah

ms89_meet

Thread on ITC Limited latestdevelopmentsITC has partnered with Amway India to distribute its B Natural+ juices (orange & mixed fruit), opens possibility to distribute other products through Amway, which sells

gianluca c 🏴‍☠️🇻🇪

gianlucac1

ITALY: Herd Imunity 3d 1/41) suppose there is one2) at R0=3 in no actions, Herd immunity threshold is 67%3) normally u go to 80% (overshooting)4) assume cross reactivity, luck, whatever

Matthew Ahn

ahnbrand

For those of you hailing the fact-checking of Trump's tweets, don't forget that fact checks are only as good as the fact checkers. Here's an AP fact check from the

Martin Coulter

martinjbcoulter

Excl: Facebook and YouTube have taken down a video filled with COVID-19 conspiracy theories, after it racked up close to a million views in a week. (1/4)https://bit.ly/3dZA6GW In the video,

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.26.20202267v1.full.pdfNeat paper from Prof Gomez’ group at Oxford: “Becayse the model is fitted to observed deaths, the estimates of cumulated numbers infected & herd immunity threshol

Kannan Gopinathan

naukarshah

If herd immunity is our only way out of this disease as many epidemiologists are suggesting, then we need to convert our weakness into our strength. Our numbers. In addition,

Pausal Živference

PausalZ

Herd immunity is a far squishier concept then many seem to be describing in their "shielding" or "stratified herd immunity" plans. Here is the formula for herd immunity threshold for

Remot 🎗

Grenyucat

question for virologists: It seems betacoronaviruses OC43 and/or HKU1 infection could provide some immunity against SARS-CoV-1 and MERS, although it is not clear if the patients with past OC43 or

daniel falush

DanielFalush

Thread. The herd immunity mentality. I agree with Jeremy Farrar that UK might be on track for the largest COVID-19 death toll in Europe. I believe that this will also

Carole Cadwalladr

carolecadwalla

Last night, I was confused by odd wording in a Peston tweet. This led down rabbit hole: discovered he had 2 year history of using Cummings as source. On Mar

KizzyPhD

KizzyPhD

Papers came out showcasing high level immune responses at 6 months in the phase 1. The meme artists got to work making a “the vaccine immunity will only lasts 6

St. Rev ☯️🏴😻

St_Rev

This seems important, and there's a related point that I've only seen mentioned once, in a comment thread on an econ blog.Discussion of R0 tends to treat it as a