2 groups of scientists with opposing viewpoints on handling the pandemic write open letters to the chief medical officers
Strangely I found them both compelling, and agree with the majority of both letters
Links in following tweets
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First a group recommending more acknowledgment of non-COVID harms of interventions, and recognition of the age disparity in risk for future interventions
Both lists of signatories contain great people, and people who (IMO) have said some questionable things, or who individually have not got the balance right
Try not to let that skew your opinion
The contents of the letters themselves I found quite reasonable
Good luck CMOs
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Here is a totally uncontroversial thread about immunity to common pathogens as influenced by the pandemic
I will simply state facts
1. Rates of many commonly circulating pathogens almost completely vanished during the first 1 - 2y of the pandemic (eg Group A Strep)
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2. The reason these pathogens almost vanished was because transmission was reduced by the measures which were introduced around the world to reduce transmission of #SARSCoV2
This coincidently also reduced transmission of other pathogens, often even more successfully
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3. Because these pathogens commonly circulate, there is usually a relatively stable amount of population immunity to them, acquired by infection
4. Vastly reduced rates of infection will therefore result in lower levels of population immunity than prior to the pandemic
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