Tweet que e cada vez menos novidade mas infelizmente ainda nao totalmente esclarecido principalmente em Portugal:
Levando em conta heterogeneidades realistas na susceptibilidade/exposição ao SARS-CoV-2 o limiar da imunidade de grupo para linhagens iniciais tera sido menos de 30%.
Se nao tivessem emergido variantes mais transmissíveis nem vacinas (como se equacionava ha mais de 1 ano) estes limiares teriam sido ultrapassados no inverno passado. Vale o que vale mas cada vez temos mais argumentos a suportar esta afirmação.
Desde então temos vivido num equilíbrio precário entre aumento de transmissibilidade do virus (devido as variantes) e diminuição de transmissibilidade (devido as vacinas) que mantem o R efectivo em torno de 1.
Com colaboradores tenho tido cuidado de partilhar todos os passos no desenvolvimento de metodologia original com potencial para transformar a forma de analisar e governar futuras pandemias. Técnicas novas foram desenvolvidas e testadas com sucesso durante a actual pandemia.
Resultados preliminares tem sido disponibilizados em arquivos de preprints (divulgados nesta plataforma) enquanto versões finais seguem para publicação em revistas da especialidade. Revistas generalistas nao quiseram publicar o que nao e surpreendente dado grau de originalidade.
Esporadicamente ainda vou lendo um tweet ou outro (curiosamente apenas em Portugues), com referencia a este percurso, que revela tanto desconhecimento do processo cientifico que me leva a questionar se devia ou nao ter partilhado ideias/descobertas pelas quais tenho tanto afecto.
Durante 1 ano tentei esclarecer questões colocadas mas ultimamente tenho optado por bloquear contas que apresentam comentários que me suscitam duvidas quando a seriedade dos seus autores. Nao estou nisto para gracinhas (nunca estive) mas cada vez tenho menos tempo para brincar.
Triste com este nosso pais!

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6 Sep
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Has the herd immunity threshold (HIT) been used sensibly in the Covid19 pandemic? No! Why does that matter?
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An epidemic (with several waves) may last longer than expected because: (1) it had high potential to begin with and mitigation prevented it from growing vertically so it grew horizontally (single HIT number thinking); or...
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(2) it didn't have as high potential as one might think but viral evolution, seasonality, waning immunity, population renewal, kept it going (dynamic HIT thinking).
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24 Aug
Don't know how common this feeling is among mathematical epidemiologists but as someone who has worked on population dynamics of infection & immunity for 20 years I felt hopeless to see herd immunity threshold (HIT) concept degenerating in front of my eyes during pandemic. Thread
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HIT is an abstract concept essential to our work but it was hijacked early in the Covid-19 pandemic and disseminated with all sorts of distortions that prevented the impact of its application by those qualified.
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A population invaded by an infectious agent (say a virus) achieves HIT when the sum of the immunities acquired by all its individuals is such that the virus cannot cause another epidemic wave.
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27 May
Our newest #COVID19 paper (with Marcelo Ferreira @ChikinaLab @WesPegden @rjaaguas) is on medRxiv. Individual variation models applied to England and Scotland.

Frailty variation models for susceptibility and exposure to SARS-CoV-2 medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
With 20% of their populations immunised by natural infection and their vulnerable vaccinated, many countries, like England and Scotland, appear to be in a comfortable position to redirect remaining vaccines to more susceptible regions.
More susceptible regions = closer to white on a combination of both these maps: ImageImage
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24 Dec 20
1/ I want to share a special moment with all who happen to be looking this way. This is the happiest I've been since April 27, when I posted on medRxiv a preprint with title "Individual variation in susceptibility or exposure to SARS-CoV-2 lowers the herd immunity threshold".
2/ In that preprint we study two mathematical models of the COVID-19 pandemic: one accounting for individual variation in susceptibility to infection; the other accounting for individual variation in exposure to infection (heterogeneous connectivity).
3/ We describe how both models tell us that herd immunity thresholds are expected to be lower when individual variation is higher. Many colleagues have posted very insightful comments on our work and here I want to highlight @joel_c_miller and @BallouxFrancois.
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9 Dec 20
TWIMC: I've been Mathematician and Mother for ~30 years (now also Grandmother) and this is what matters. I spent the last 10 years studying individual variation on characteristics that are under selection but that have no heritability repercussions in the time scale under study.
In these studies I have "used" (please make a note of this word) primarily host-pathogen systems but my curiosity for completely different systems was particularly vivid last year and I was happily moving away from infectious diseases when the pandemic started.
Early in the Covid pandemic I started being approached by reporters who wanted to understand what was happening and what to expect over times to come. To respond to them I started studying the data and interpreting it in light of my models.
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4 Oct 20
1/ Reducing transmission is not the only way of preventing deaths. From health records we can predict who is at risk of severe or fatal disease (medrxiv.org/content/10.110…, PLoS Medicine in press) and offer them shielding.
2/ Shielding was less than optimal in the first wave, because (at least in Scotland) it was implemented too late. But we are better prepared now.
3/ The policy option of shielding the vulnerable for a short time while allowing the epidemic to run to completion among the young and fit should not be ruled out (medrxiv.org/content/10.110…).
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