Short thread. I keep seeing claims on how some places may have reached herd immunity & calculations on whether a variant is more virulent or disporportionately affects the young etc. These are not easy things to discern so let’s not do confident back-of-the-envelope calculations.
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Adam W Gaffney Retweeted Adam W Gaffney
It's unfortunate the CDC doesn't have an ongoing, nationally-representative household seroprevalence study like the UK - we could actually know the answer to this.https://twitter.com/awgaffney/status/1376829478014480385?s=20 …
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Adam W GaffneyVerified account @awgaffneyHousehold seroprevalence survey in UK finds 50% or more of population of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland have either been previously infected *or* vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2. As far as I’m aware a comparable household survey is not being done here https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveyantibodydatafortheuk/30march2021 …Show this thread3 replies 3 retweets 44 likes
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