Posted on 05/23/2020 8:51:48 AM PDT by riri
Memorial Day Weekend Corona Virus Thread
Study of spread by re-opening schools:
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2021/04/22/covid-19-reopening-indiana-schools-increased-coronavirus-spread-safe/7222994002/?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot
“The study from a team of Indiana University researchers, doctors, statisticians and educators, found that in-person school did result in additional cases of COVID-19 but the number of cases attributable to in-person school was very low compared to total new cases...
Every 10% increase in in-person schooling, the study found, was associated with a daily increase in cases in the county equal to 0.336 per 100,000 people. Or, roughly one new case per 100,000 every three days. Statewide, the number of daily new cases were 10 per 100,000 residents at the start of the study period and rose to 19 new cases per 100,000 residents by the end.”
Thread on rejection of a Sputnik V batch. It explains some of the manufacturing process.
https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1387397186372005893
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2104974?query=featured_home
“... The estimated effectiveness of the vaccine against any documented infection with the B.1.1.7 variant was 89.5% (95% confidence interval [CI], 85.9 to 92.3) at 14 or more days after the second dose (Table 1 and Table S2). The effectiveness against any documented infection with the B.1.351 variant was 75.0% (95% CI, 70.5 to 78.9). Vaccine effectiveness against severe, critical, or fatal disease due to infection with any SARS-CoV-2 (with the B.1.1.7 and B.1.351 variants being predominant within Qatar) was very high, at 97.4% (95% CI, 92.2 to 99.5). Sensitivity analyses confirmed these results (Table S3)...”
https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1388636374459314178
People who have recovered from covid get big protection from just one shot of mRNA vax.
Maybe no benefit from second.
Article on the 1957 flu epidemic response.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/niall-ferguson-how-ikes-1950s-america-beat-asian-flu-science-common-sense
Pfizer 91% efficacy against symptomatic infection.
https://twitter.com/DrZoeHyde/status/1377602830719012869
Covid lineage prevalence in United States
https://outbreak.info/location-reports?loc=USA&selected=B.1.1.7&selected=B.1.617.2&selected=P.1
https://twitter.com/profshanecrotty/status/1357357172506546176
Thread addressing many of the myths about vaccine safety.
UK study of Delta (Indian) variant. Very informative though “early days”.
https://twitter.com/profshanecrotty/status/1408186182693883904
Lot about “wild” and vaccine-induced immunity.
Encouraging.
A quick helpful read on how our immune system works...
https://twitter.com/pankti4299/status/1369217935063977986
“I wrote a small story to explain #ImmuneResponse in #COVID19 to better understand what happens in our bodies...”
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v1
‘Our findings thus consistently relate to loss of grey matter in limbic cortical areas directly linked to the primary olfactory and gustatory system.’”... from covid infection.
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