The Premonition Feed

A feed tracking the brilliant people featured in Michael Lewis' The Premonition, along with others reporting on the course of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

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@Christi57379096 @krassenstein Yeah, I really shouldn't have insulted. Sorry. You're still wrong about your history though.

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@Christi57379096 @krassenstein Edit: I really shouldn't insult. Sorry. But you're still wrong about your history.

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@Christi57379096 @krassenstein Gerald Ford had an inflation problem, it predated Carter. It continued after too, into Reagan's first term, and only snapped when the Fed chair (actually appointed by Carter) popped the bubble in 82'. But I wouldn't expect you to know that, given you didn't spell "too" correctly.

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@hayes_mcdole @krassenstein Serious question - what un-Christian things? Also giving back the canal cut the Sandinista communists off at the pass.

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@binnahar85 How are those migrant workers doing? And don’t say “expected mortality rates” - that math is bull, a prime example of government lying with statistics. https://t.co/L8FZdwWzIT

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@B_resnick @neel_dhan @mdhoddinott Having just read the article, you might be interested in the Aluminum/Sulfur battery Pang et al. published about recently (https://t.co/WWKS3JumJP). Unless there are obstacles I’m unaware of (possible/likely) it seems promising.

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@PeterHotez @washingtonpost Didn’t @derisij lab do something/find a potential solution for a similar amoeba? (I remember this from the book this account is named after)

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@andyaschmidt @HG711 @TWenseleers That may be true. It depends on the infection rate in the community, num of ppl you socialize with regularly (3?,10?,50?), if you mask at work. I’d love some numbers. Regardless it should reduce your num exposures/time and increase mean time b/w exposures, right?

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@nickylep @kearnsneuro @chrischirp Yes, but omicron is also really ‘catchy’, like measles level. I’m wondering if this means that very low viral load/exposure is enough to infect now, and whether ventilation can reduce load enough to reach such low levels. Or if this is a bad way to think about the problem?

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@EricTopol @EricTopol why is immune evasion not leading to a significantly larger hospitalization/death peak accompanying the smaller surge in cases?

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Just published @ScienceMagazine
A nasal vaccine booster (after primary vaccination) induces mucosal immunity —IgA, memory B and T cell—against the sarbecovirus family in the experimental model
https://t.co/j03xNjIXzh
by @VirusesImmunity @tianyangmao and team @YaleIBIO @YaleMed

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@andyaschmidt @HG711 @TWenseleers KN95’s are still QUITE helpful thank you very much. An order of magnitude less than of everyone wore them, but still close to an order of magnitude on your own iirc.

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@MichaelColey @TWenseleers How does this hypothesis mesh with immune evasion? I would think a even a similar/smaller peak in cases would lead to a much higher/larger peak in deaths compared to BA.5? Is there reason to believe immune evasion isn’t enough to up death rate compared to the BA.5 wave?

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@MoritzGerstung Question: Why aren’t we seeing deaths rise so much despite the immune evasion of these variants? I would expect even a moderate case increase to lead to a large rise in deaths given immune evasion.
Thanks for any answer!

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@LomTawler @GeneKelly1320 Are you suggesting the Google algorithm is your arbiter of truth. This is rodiculous. An NIH grant is a government research grant and you AR simply ing what?

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@pinstripe2plaid @EricTopol @EricTopol also posted an answer the question you are asking in the thread you are responding to (from Dr. Panthagani - https://t.co/oOJKOtDj18)

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Florida just announced the results of an analysis that they performed, saying the results show "an increased risk of cardiac-related death among men 18-39" for the mRNA vaccines, and recommend this group not receive these vaccines.

Is this justified? Let's look at the data...

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@BigIke1313 @EricTopol If you actually want an answer - the answer is 'yes, but actually no' ' - I can't say it more simply, just read the (very brief) article from @dr_kkjetelina (https://t.co/rIkhyABKRn)

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@pinstripe2plaid @EricTopol There's been a lot of experts debunking this in the last couple weeks. Here's another from @dr_kkjetelina, whose sub track is also a great civic info source generally (https://t.co/rIkhyABKRn)

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@Dr_Tim_MD @gfeltner78 @EricTopol They just said they're not a denier and are clearly asking about the epidemiology, not downplaying the impact...don't be jerk