Prof. Christina Pagel
Prof Operational Research @UCL_CORU, health care, women in STEM. Member of @independentsage. chrischirp at bluesky. https://t.co/nNW5zMenx2
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Quick thread on the Astra Zeneca (AZ) covid vaccine since it's been in the news today. TLDR there isn't a new "smoking gun", the AZ vax was one of first and cheapest, it saved mi...
THREAD: @ArisKatzourakis wrote a brilliant @Nature commentary busting some popular - and unfortunately sticky - myths about the evolution of Covid and what this means for the pande...
QUICK THREAD ON VACCINES & DELTA: Friday's @PHE_uk report said that viral load in infected vaccinated people was similar to that of uninfected people. As has been pointed out by...
LONG THREAD on B.1.617.2 & latest PHE data covering: 1) latest tech report on B.1.617.2 (aka "India" variant) 2) vaccine efficacy against B.1.617.2 3) consequences for roadmap 4)...
THREAD: good news / bad news / good new on covid with data up to 5/6th Jan by date of test. Thanks to Bob Hawkins who did the charts for me :-)
Last COVID thread of the year! First cases are continuing to go up everywhere and we are starting to get past the Christmas testing / reporting drops. Worryingly, new data from...