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Word! From Chris Sky.
"but what the vaccine won't do, I don't think, it doesn't seem to have the ability to do - particularly in the face of mutating virus population, is it's not going to give you protection against infection, which would allow us like measles to get to a state where of endemic equilibrium without... where people were protected against infection through vaccination, but that's not going to happen.
All we can do with this vaccine at the moment is protect those who are vulnerable." — Sunetra Gupta (Prof. Epidemiology, Oxford
All we can do with this vaccine at the moment is protect those who are vulnerable." — Sunetra Gupta (Prof. Epidemiology, Oxford
"And generally speaking, I think the concept of herd immunity is misunderstood.
And that people assume that once you reach herd immunity, the disease goes away and that's not true. Herd immunity as such simply refers to the protection that you gain from other people in your community being immune, and thresholds of herd immunity are ones which when crossed make the infection decline.
But generally speaking, where we end up is at that threshold, which is an equilibrium state where infections neither growth nor decline, except in some sort of seasonal way, which is just a sort of bobbing up and down around equilibrium.
So these concepts, which are not terribly difficult to take on board, but also very easy to misunderstand, particularly if you have a desire, some sort of political desire to misunderstand them is what's led to this." — Sunetra Gupta (Prof. Epidemiology, Oxford
And that people assume that once you reach herd immunity, the disease goes away and that's not true. Herd immunity as such simply refers to the protection that you gain from other people in your community being immune, and thresholds of herd immunity are ones which when crossed make the infection decline.
But generally speaking, where we end up is at that threshold, which is an equilibrium state where infections neither growth nor decline, except in some sort of seasonal way, which is just a sort of bobbing up and down around equilibrium.
So these concepts, which are not terribly difficult to take on board, but also very easy to misunderstand, particularly if you have a desire, some sort of political desire to misunderstand them is what's led to this." — Sunetra Gupta (Prof. Epidemiology, Oxford
"there were people who were rightfully so keen to get rid of characters like Trump and Bolsenaro that they just decided to politicize this whole thing in a way that's been incredibly unhelpful and damaging to a lot of people. Basically the politicization of this scientific dialogue has been to the detriment. And when I say detriment, we're talking a serious detriment to many ordinary people." — Sunetra Gupta (Prof. Epidemiology, Oxford
"Cases rose because of seasonality without any doubt. And within that rising cases, so there's sudden expansion, the strain that was slightly more transmissible is very likely to expand more and take over very quickly. It doesn't serve, it does not merit or what it doesn't justify at all is the panic and the closure of borders surrounding that narrative. So I think the narrative is flawed and the worry - it doesn't matter - anyone can come up with narratives and narratives. They are all somewhat flawed, but when a flawed narrative is used or an improbable narrative is used to inflict these sorts of conditions, then one has to really think about how it needs to be questioned." — Sunetra Gupta (Prof. Epidemiology, Oxford)
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✨Outdoor Masks - Dr. Battacharya & Dr. Atlas
"I think that vanishingly few cases, even in contact tracing that have identified outdoor spread at all" - Dr. Battacharya
"World Health Organization said specifically, it’s bad to wear a mask during exercise, yet where I’m from in California, the gyms that are open, they require you to wear a mask during exercise. It’s not just unnecessary, it’s harmful." - Dr. Atlas
(Gov. Ron DeSantis Public Health Roundtable, March 18)
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"I think that vanishingly few cases, even in contact tracing that have identified outdoor spread at all" - Dr. Battacharya
"World Health Organization said specifically, it’s bad to wear a mask during exercise, yet where I’m from in California, the gyms that are open, they require you to wear a mask during exercise. It’s not just unnecessary, it’s harmful." - Dr. Atlas
(Gov. Ron DeSantis Public Health Roundtable, March 18)
👁 t.iss.one/dryburgh
UK Column News - 22nd March 2021 (FULL)
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UK Column News - 22nd March 2021 (FULL)
“The Lockdowns Are Creating a New Virus. Then We Have a New Epidemic.” — Epidemiologist Dr Wittkowski ▶▶https://dryburgh.com/knut-wittkowski-lockdowns-are-creating-a-new-virus/
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Common sense again, we should only seek to vaccinate the vulnerable. But hey, governments are looking to vax those at no risk like babies.
"I think the way to use vaccines is to deliver focus protection. And I don't think we should be vaccinating everybody. I think we should rely on a combination of focused protection through vaccination and naturally acquired immunity" — Sunetra Gupta (Prof. Epidemiology, Oxford)
"I think the way to use vaccines is to deliver focus protection. And I don't think we should be vaccinating everybody. I think we should rely on a combination of focused protection through vaccination and naturally acquired immunity" — Sunetra Gupta (Prof. Epidemiology, Oxford)
"Where we end up is at that threshold, which is an equilibrium state where infections neither growth nor decline, except in some sort of seasonal way, which is just a sort of bobbing up and down around equilibrium." — Sunetra Gupta (Prof. Epidemiology, Oxford)