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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.147 [SLACK_000361] · slack_pm:msg:01510

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Date
2020-08-26 17:26
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes

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Agree. n = 1 is ridiculous.

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  1. 2020-08-26 17:17 Edward C. Holmes open
    Is that reinfection story bollocks then Kristian?
  2. 2020-08-26 17:23 Kristian G. Andersen open
    I suspect the first one may be - but the one from the US today looks good. Again, we should totally expect reinfections so none of them are surprising - I just get really fucking grumpy when people talk about what we can learn about COVID immunity and vaccines from n=1 studies (some of which might be false positives). It's just idiotic- we learn exactly nothing! (well, we learn that reinfections are possible - but of course they are - we fucking knew that! We need to know frequency and time dependency before we can say *anything* about immunity/vaccines).
  3. 2020-08-26 17:25 Kristian G. Andersen open
    I was mostly ticked off by so many people saying "oh, this is totally normal, it's textbook immunology and the case clearly shows that immunity works". Total bollocks - let's hope that's the case, but we just don't know and ifreinfections are a frequent occurrence then that _is_ a huge issue from an epidemic control perspective.
  4. 2020-08-26 17:26 Edward C. Holmes
    Agree. n = 1 is ridiculous.
  5. 2020-08-26 17:26 Edward C. Holmes open
    Also, the sun: what is good for? [shared file(s): image.png]
  6. 2020-08-26 17:27 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Aaaaaaahahahahahahahaha, that is AMAZING!!!! Soooo funny!
  7. 2020-08-26 17:29 Edward C. Holmes open
    I just hate those quiescent states. So annoying!
  8. 2020-08-26 17:30 Kristian G. Andersen open
    I know - wtf man! Spewing those viruses our way! Not fair, really not fair.

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