#Immunity

So, everyone wants to know when this pandemic will be over. So let's look at a possible scenario for discussion. So, for this scenario, after 2 months, there are no
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Current evidence on immunity for #COVID19.My *non-expert* overview(replying to comment by @taaltree & would love help/comments from actual immunity expert: @florian_krammer or others)Threadhttps://twitter.com/taaltree/status/12832338636
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The COVID-19 Coronavirus Disease May Be Twice As Contagious As We ThoughtBad news if true, but explains a lot.“The new study, published in the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal, shifts the
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Governor of Illinois said today that even in Phase 5 - anticipated on June 11th - the mask mandate will be in place "to protect those who are unvaccinated"?Um, no.This
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1) Various commentators have suggested that the DC Circuit cannot, at this point, grant @SidneyPowell1's writ petition, because Judge Sullivan has not actually denied the DOJ's motion to dismiss. #appellatetwitter
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A word on "herd immunity" @MattHancockCovid19 is leaving people who had "mild" cases, with what could turn out to be permanent lung damage.So "Herd immunity" might have condemned millions of
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1/ Last week @mlipsitch - a Harvard epidemiologist - wrote a blistering @washingtonpost piece attacking any plan for herd immunity. Letting people at low risk for #Covid become infected “could
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Let’s just take a moment today to talk about why a lot of experts (@devisridhar, @BhadeliaMD, @sarahcobey, @neil_ferguson, @joshua_schiffer and more) think the pursuit of natural herd immunity for COVID
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1) So I want to tell a quick personal health story. It has the moral. The moral is please please please please please get your Covid shot. 2) I am
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1/A quick thread about the medium-term future of our coronavirus response (i.e. between lockdown and treatment/vaccine).Some have suggested we use variolation (i.e. try to intentionally infect each person with a
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I have a question. I used to work in Health and Safety. I know a bit about employer's responsibility to provide PPE. If anyone died at work the Health and
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I feel it is important to call out misunderstandings about what 'herd immunity' means. It is clear from this little thread that @TheEliKlein has no idea. I'm not trying to
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Data on visits to doctors for "influenza-like illness" imply covid-19 has spread 200x faster than official US data show. Counterintuitively, if true, this would be good news. New in @TheEconomist
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BREAKING NEWS⁦@SECNAV⁩ Modly had ZERO plans to rescue sailors from USS Theodore Roosevelt He and retired Navy Captain Jan Van Tol planned to use herd immunity to keep #coronavirus-afflicted carriers
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Stockholm is the best population to test Covid theory whereby it was hit hard early and did not have lockdowns.Nobel Prize winner Dr Michael Levitt postulated that the virus burns
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I would like to model out the argument that we should just "let the virus burn through the young and get to herd immunity". And I would like to do
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