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biologist, sports fan
May 10, 2021 8 tweets 4 min read
Reporting in @nytimes by @apoorva_nyc and others proclaiming that herd immunity is out of reach are missing the point in several key ways 1/
nytimes.com/2021/05/07/pod… In April, @malar0ne and I hosted a @StanfordHumScie & @StanfordMed panel on the science of herd immunity with @mlipsitch @meyerslab @parsonnt and Rustom Antia; key sources for the NYT piece. They made 5 key points that recent press coverage misses: 2/
Mar 23, 2020 14 tweets 9 min read
New from my lab at @Stanford, interactive modeling tool thinking about long-term #COVID19 interventions. Lifting interventions too early will likely lead to a second epidemic, but we have options to #FlattenTheCurve and #KeepItFlat. covid-measures.github.io This was a collaborative effort by @DevinKirk @MPKain @malar0ne @jwkritchie @NicoleNovaBio @Lisa_Couper @virologisa @marissalchilds