No, Vaccinated People Are Not ‘Just as Likely’ to Spread the Coronavirus as Unvaccinated People
There is a common belief that “vaccinated people are just as likely to spread the coronavirus.” This misunderstanding, born out
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Epidemiology
Interpreting a lateral flow SARS-CoV-2 antigen test
What you need to know The positive predictive value of a positive lateral flow device (LFD) test depends on the
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Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years
BACKGROUNDAlthough the rising pandemic of obesity has received major attention in many countries, the effects of this attention on trends
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Asymptomatic transmission of covid-19 What we know, and what we don’t
Asymptomatic transmission of covid-19 – BMJ Dec 21 Earlier estimates that 80% of infections are asymptomatic were too high and
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SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination — An Ounce (Actually, Much Less) of Prevention -NEJM editorial
From the Editorial ‘We are publishing today in the Journal the results of a phase 3, double-blind, randomized, controlled trial of
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The spread of Covid by droplets – can we believe the CDC?
Friday 18 September: CDC posted information on its website that for the first time said covid-19 could be spread through
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COID-19 Presenting symptoms CDC and Sri Lanka
Symptom Profiles of a Convenience Sample of Patients with COVID-19 — United States, January–April 2020 – LINK While a wide
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Diagnostic accuracy of serological tests for covid-19: systematic review and meta-analysis
Rationale: The development of serological testing has been mainly used to monitoring and responding to the pandemic including the restart
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SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in COVID-19 hotspots: Herd immunity “unethical and unachievable”?
The key finding from these representative cohorts is that most of the population appears to have remained unexposed to SARS-CoV-2,
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Where did you go my (CORONA) lovely?
I have been a member of an EBM list-server for more than a decade where experts of EBM discuss world
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