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  1. 10 hours ago

    Here's a story I was keen to write: Growing evidence that about 10% of COVID-19 cases do 80% of the spreading. This is important because: - it tells us that R is not everything - it (maybe) gives us some new strategies to limit the spread

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  2. Aug 11

    Antibody drugs could be one of the best weapons against Covid-19. But they don't seem likely to be available before a vaccine. via

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  3. Aug 11

    Sydney scientists mystery-shopped 110 pharmacies, asking for St John's Wort. In 11.8% of cases, they received advice from pharmacists that "may have resulted in harm". Not a great strike rate !

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  4. Retweeted
    Aug 10

    Out in a paddock in Bairnsdale, there's a very special herd of alpacas. on why alpacas and their strange immune systems could help the COVID-19 fight.

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  5. Retweeted
    Aug 9

    Today on I caught up with to find out how the global race to a COVID-19 vaccine was progressing. Have a listen via

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  6. Aug 9

    This analysis reckons Victorian Effective Reproduction Number dropped to 0.96 (CI 0.93-0.99) on August 3

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  7. Aug 9

    COVID-19 increased amount of time Australian parents spent on child care by 39%. *But* women were already doing 43 more hours per week on child care than men - meaning lockdown increased this inequality, according to this study

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  8. Aug 9

    Interesting. Study looking at NSW COVID-19 cases finds 1% decrease in relative humidity = 7-8% increase in cases. Small study, small time-scale, but the paper says it is in line with global evidence

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  9. Aug 9

    Trust in government is directly related to people's willingness to follow COVID-19 lockdown guidelines. In this Lancet study, the authors show a potential link between Dominic Cummings breaking the rules and decrease in public adherence to lockdown

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  10. Aug 9

    Reanalysis of Wuhan data using a new method suggests COVID-19's incubation period - avg time between infection and symptoms - is 7.7 days, with 5-10% of cases taking longer than 14 days to show symptoms. Only one study, but troubling if accurate

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  11. Aug 9

    New from me: Behaviour-change scientists have spent decades trying to get people to eat healthy and move more. What they have discovered can tell us a lot about how to get people to stop the spread of COVID-19 via

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  12. Aug 9

    Not surprising: As mindfulness app Headspace booms, its popularity outpaces its scientific evidence via

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  13. Aug 9

    One to watch. FDA currently considering submissions on approving aducanumab, which - if approved - would be first medicine approved to slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer's via

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  14. Aug 9

    Not good. Study finds racial bias in the US government’s formula for distributing Covid-19 aid to hospitals via

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    Aug 6

    NON COVID BLOG ALERT I wrote something I've been meaning to put together for ages - magic mushrooms and depression. Miracle cure or waste of time?

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  16. Aug 6

    Face-masks, social distancing and hand hygiene are some of the best tools we have fighting the coronavirus. Yet non-drug interventions for COVID-19 are barely being studied, according to this dataset

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  17. Aug 6

    Confirmation, as Tony Blakely suggested yesterday, that yes batching does occur. This is another reminder to not get too hung up on the daily numbers

    "We've seen very significant ups and downs with numbers. That can occur with batching of results from our laboratories."
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    Aug 6

    COVID-19 cases with unknown sources grow in NSW with 11 new cases via

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  19. Aug 6

    Oh dear. Professor Jenny Graves says there may well be an association between COVID-19 infection and... Baldness. "Androgen is linked very strongly to baldness. It looks like having a lot of the male hormone is a risk factor"

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  20. Aug 6

    Interesting piece. If it turns out that superspreading is the big problem (some evidence 10% cause 80% of infections), suggests we could use different lockdown measures to control it - limits on crowds in closed spaces, not so much personal lockdowns

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