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The geographic pattern of house price change in the Northeast since the pandemic began is just stunning. Demand is being pushed out of expensive places pic.twitter.com/nks3ZGpWgI

— Adam Ozimek (@ModeledBehavior) May 26, 2023

The shift to WFH is the largest shock to labor markets in decades. Pre-pandemic WFH was trending towards 5% of days by 2022. Now WFH is now stabilizing at 30%, a 6-fold jump.

In America alone this is saving about 200 million hours and 6 billion miles of commuting a week. pic.twitter.com/XK4WVWXq3f

— Nick Bloom (@I_Am_NickBloom) August 29, 2022

How remote work is changing tech pay: “As remote work has become more of an expectation in 2022, salaries have begun to converge toward the higher-tier metros” https://t.co/tEdVMi3wRf pic.twitter.com/VXtvwhoTri

— Jim Russell (@ProducerCities) July 11, 2022

Known reinfections had higher Ct values (indicating lower viral loads) with each variant than ones where no record of a previous symptomatic infection existed, here shown in the unvaccinated. 6/9 pic.twitter.com/QRvYQJh9GJ

— Sebastian Funk (@sbfnk@fosstodon.org) (@sbfnk) April 27, 2022

Vaccines are the single most important tool in our fight against COVID

However, I’ve worried our approach using a narrow single protein mRNA Vax may limit our ability to keep up w the virus

This new data suggests it might

I’ll explain

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— Michael Mina (@michaelmina_lab) April 15, 2022

These epidemics have proceeded in a similar fashion across states with initial rapid exponential growth that slowed as epidemics grew in size. It appears that states are largely on the same curve, just some are farther ahead on this curve compared to others. 4/9 pic.twitter.com/AxpZCC7Am2

— Trevor Bedford (@trvrb) January 20, 2022

Whooooooosh.

Can't get enough of this sort of thing. pic.twitter.com/0clunG4tyw

— Colin Angus (@VictimOfMaths) January 17, 2022

Big study of ~70k Covid cases showing Omicron's far lower severity of outcomes vs Delta

Symptomatic hospitalisation -53%
Median hospital stay length -70%
ICU admission -74%
Mortality -91%

Major effects among both vaccinated and unvaccinated patients.https://t.co/xxxlYanRVL pic.twitter.com/3fsdd1OLIR

— Mike Bird (@Birdyword) January 12, 2022

33. Oliver's presentation includes this slide, which shows that as with older groups, vaccine efficacy in 12-15 yos (red line) declines over time. pic.twitter.com/G20EXXvIX7

— Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 (@HelenBranswell) January 5, 2022

Fig 5B: repeat w/ live Omicron previous pseudotype study findings that Om does not induce cell syncytia (cell-cell fusion, which is highly pathogenic/inflammatory).

Fig 5D: confirm much reduced lung epithelial replication (an order of magnitude).

All-in-all Om looks distinct. pic.twitter.com/IJXuEHjZV2

— Devan Sinha (@DevanSinha) December 30, 2021

New from today's @UKHSA report is the finding that Omicron has faster vaccine effectiveness waning vs symptomatic infection than Delta (N for Moderna small)https://t.co/viVjY37rNQ which is a replication of what has been seen in Israel @BarakRaveh pic.twitter.com/ynNM0DlRkv

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) December 23, 2021

blue line: daily COVID cases in the USA

red line: bad reviews of Yankee Candles on Amazon saying "they don't have any scent"

sources: google and https://t.co/oZm6ro0E1S pic.twitter.com/8U2XkH0RT4

— eleanor 🦌🏒 (@zornsllama) December 22, 2021

In neutralization assays, @BalazsLab observes only a 4-fold or 6-fold reduction in titer going from wild-type to Omicron after booster relative to 43-fold or 122-fold after initial mRNA vaccine series (https://t.co/EuHC1fuHWP). 4/14 pic.twitter.com/AidMZkxzUd

— Trevor Bedford (@trvrb) December 20, 2021

Coming to a town near you pic.twitter.com/aS4bsOKblP

— Theo Sanderson (@theosanderson) December 17, 2021

71.9% of cases in London with specimens from 13 December were Omicron.

Overall London cases are already reaching the maximum values ever seen in the pandemic. pic.twitter.com/CJF5kQqBpl

— Theo Sanderson (@theosanderson) December 16, 2021

Under existing control measures, we project a wave of infections resulting from Omicron that exceeds the January 2021 levels, for all four scenarios.

In the optimistic scenario, hospital admissions are projected to remain below Jan 2021 levels. pic.twitter.com/LpZIp4NQxA

— Dr Rosanna C Barnard (she/her) (@BarnardResearch) December 11, 2021

I wanted to share one more figure from the #Omicron pre-print that I think offers some additional support for the idea that mRNA boosting doesn't just increase the total neutralizing response but instead "broadens" it to enable Omicron neuralization: pic.twitter.com/WPejn0d0ro

— Balazs Lab (@BalazsLab) December 16, 2021

This graph shows relationship between time, viral load and transmissibility - and why Sensitivity against PCR looks horrible, even if the test is 100% sensitive to catch infectious people.

The infectious period is days. PCR is not specific for this & stays pos for weeks

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— Michael Mina (@michaelmina_lab) September 15, 2021

I've redrawn this concept here. We have viral abundance on the x-axis in arbitrary units of 0% to 100% and population immune pressure on the y-axis also in arbitrary units. Viral adaptation is plotted by color and is just abundance × immune pressure. 4/19 pic.twitter.com/TAZgbEmGHG

— Trevor Bedford (@trvrb) November 22, 2021

Grenfell et al. 2004 (https://t.co/1uq4qZvP2f) lays out the conceptual foundations for thinking about this problem. This figure is a bit hard to parse, but basically vaccination will increase population immunity and move rightward on the x-axis. 2/19 pic.twitter.com/L7odPQAPEH

— Trevor Bedford (@trvrb) November 22, 2021

Regional Victoria converges into a line at 95%.#Covid19VicData #CovidVic #COVID19nsw #COVID19Aus pic.twitter.com/XoE7TEz2Mm

— Dr Behrooz Hassani-M (@behrooz_hm) October 25, 2021