#Herd

Neil O'Brien MP

NeilDotObrien

My piece below looks at Sweden. Recent days have seen Sweden’s Nordic neighbours Finland and Norway offer emergency medical assistance as Stockholm’s hospitals overflow & the King make an unprecedented

Lindsay Wiley

ProfLWiley

Confusion over various endpoints for the covid pandemic is flaring up again. Eradication, elimination, containment, suppression, transition to seasonal/endemic covid, etc. are terms that even scientists use in inconsistent ways.

Kim Weeden

WeedenKim

Hard to believe but in academic time, fall 2021 is just around the corner. Delays in vaccination program make this extremely challenging for universities, in many ways more challenging than

Mike Jopek

mikejopek

As it took 3 weeks to get the single dose of vaccine to 5.1% of Montanans, how long until 75% of state citizens have access to the inoculant? #mtpol The

Dr Shane Huntington OAM

DrShaneRRR

Science communication at its worst. Here is an example from The Age today: https://www.theage.com.au/national/scientists-call-for-pause-on-astrazeneca-vaccine-rollout-20210112-p56tjt.htmlSorry folks - this will be a thread. #CovidVaccine Re

Dr. Monica Malta PhD (she/her)

MonicaMalta7

Recombination: A Covid Superpower?An immunocompromised patient held onto the same coronavirus infection for 154 days. When doctors sequenced the virus samples, they found MORE than 20 #COVID19 mutations, via @NPR

Matt McCarthy

DrMattMcCarthy

Here are the most challenging #COVID19 questions I got this week: 1/ 1. When will life return to normal? Some answer this by looking at when we'll hit herd immunity.

Ninos M

ninos_mansor

Post-Musk crypto markets are going to be eclectic and confusing. Retail is now here to stay, so capital rotation becomes more idiosyncratic. $DOGE type moves that leave us totally bewildered.

(((Howard Forman)))

thehowie

Thread : #Sweden & #HerdImmunityWhen folks talk about the US attempting #HerdImmunity "strategy," they look to Sweden. They (sometimes) acknowledge vast death, early on, but then point to the mitigation

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

Thanks JE! Up to date info, total weekly deaths, which are very close to normal for early Nov. I say again: you can’t have a lethal pandemic stalking the land

Hector Drummond, Stay Home. Die Slowly Inside.

hector_drummond

The UK govt has only three strategies with Covid. Herd immunity/live with it, lockdown for total elimination, or lockdown until a vaccine is found.1/9 But the last is just suicidal

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

the highest credible estimate of COVID's base R value in the United States (i.e. pre-March 1) is 3, which suggests you only need 66% immunity to keep R durably below

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

I was first drawn into this mess when I met up by chance with a senior manager in NHS England. He’d noticed that, despite ITU beds emptying out late spring

Jason Marianna

jwmarianna

These same arguments were made with smallpox, the Spanish Flu and with Polio. They were wrong then and they’re wrong now.https://twitter.com/interpolated/status/1327453770918359040 Your immune system isn’t magic. Sure, over time our

Will Kinney

WKCosmo

You know all the people who are out there repeating over and over that "the vaccine doesn't prevent you from transmitting it to other people"? They're almost certainly full of

MU Thundering Blog

MarshallTBlog

Long Thread AlertDoc Holliday was the right coach at the right time. Under his predecessor, Marshall’s streak of 30 consecutive winning seasons ended. From 2005-2010, the Herd only won 41%

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