Lyndon D'Arcy

[Dr Andrew Miller - bring back disease prevention @drajm]

My initial thoughts on the Covid Response Inquiry report.

Interesting reading.

Electing leaders who care for people seems to be the smartest approach to future pandemics cos politics will trump a CDC.

My thoughts in @westaustralian this week

[Lyndon D'Arcy @lvdarcy]

@aClicheHandle @NorthstarBrain This! Even in human interactions, there is more to politeness than just the effect that it has on the other person.

[Maria Van Kerkhove @mvankerkhove]

Despite not being in the news, #COVID19 has not gone away. @WHO continues to work with all countries on surveillance, reporting & risk assessments of circulating variants (JN.1, KP.2, KP.3…) & their impact.

Our latest Epi Update (with variant update) ⬇️
https://t.co/I4XqirGobH

[SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @COVID19_disease]

⚠️ BREAKING

'High risk' of another pandemic with threat of flu jumping from animals to humans 'a certainty' warns World Health Organization's outbreak preparedness tsar

Dr Maria Van Kerkhove also admitted Covid 'did not have to be as bad as it was'.

[Danielle Beckman, PhD @DaniBeckman]

Keep saying that to friends. Even if you don't mask regularly, please mask inside airplanes.

[Glen Pyle | #WomensHeartHealth ❤️‍🩹💃🏼 @glenpyle]

With the publication of an excellent review of the benefits of masking by @trishgreenhalgh & colleagues, some are recycling misinformation about the basic physics of masks.

Let me, a biophysicist, take this opportunity to explain the physics of masks.

A 🧵

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[Lyndon D'Arcy @lvdarcy]

@anders_hviid Could you please clarify which “monovalent XBB.1.5-containing covid-19 mRNA vaccine” you are referring to?

I’m guessing comirnaty, but in my country this phrase could just as easily describe spikevax!

[Sue J @SMpwrgr]

Story🧵

Dear @TheRealPBarry & @RonniSalt

I have a story 4 you

a media story

a science story

a story about data & death, integrity & carelessness

a story with an epidemiological modelling expert who tries to warn everyone but is ignored

& an actuarial hero who saves the day

[Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama]

Re: That Article but also just relationships, something I’ve learned over 14 years of marriage is that there are lines and walls. Lines can be negotiated and compromised around. You hate their mom. They don’t like ironing. These are lines.

[Prof Brendan Crabb @CrabbBrendan]

An "aging accelerant"...

[💧simon holmes à court 🦋 @simonahac]

⚛️ why #nuclear power is a distraction for australia

if implemented, the #coalition's plan would see:
• increased gas & coal usage
• increased cost
• increased emissions
• higher chance of blackouts

read on to find out why… 🧵

[tern @1goodtern]

The Spanish Flu comparison is an insidious one that I keep coming across.

A woman in her late 50s said it to me yesterday.

"do you know when the Spanish Flu ended?... It didn't!"

[Sue J @SMpwrgr]

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Just got a cvd email update from Dr Clare Looker @VicGovDH 😮

Key messages

•Vic community transmission ⬆️ing
•Recent rapid ⬆️ in cvd hospitalisation
•⬆️ in comm’y transmission linked to new variant JN.1
•esp important to protect those at risk of serious illness

[Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @EpiEllie]

Armchair twitter economists: “OMG, you want to prevent COVID?? Have you epidemiologists even ever heard of cost-benefit analyses????”

Actual economist: “I worked on estimating the cost of covid, along with my colleague Larry Summers, which we estimated to be 16 trillion dollars”

[Maria Van Kerkhove @mvankerkhove]

Long🧵 #COVID19 and where we are. I’m worried.

We are entering the 5th year of the pandemic and we are certainly in a different phase. This phase is marked by an evolving virus (with the XBB and BA.2 sublineages circulating and JN.1 becoming dominant).
https://t.co/d47EbEF4ea

[Marc Johnson @SolidEvidence]

We are now officially into year 5 of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic/endemic.

I gave a lecture to my virology class this Fall about the history of the pandemic through the lens of viral genotypes.

I thought I would share that lecture as a thread.

This is a long one.
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[Prof Brendan Crabb @CrabbBrendan]

It's no secret that for years now I have felt that authorities everywhere were not communicating the nature of the COVID crisis well enough. In that context, I have been blown away recently by the quality & earnestness of @VicGovDH & @VictorianCHO comms. May it be infectious.