JoHo. (2022, January 6). Just under a million boosters given. 4 confirmed myocarditis cases, 9 under review. All 4 have recovered. Https://t.co/WxE2gaNyRy [Tweet]. @JHowardBrainMD. https://twitter.com/JHowardBrainMD/status/1479144953460805632

John Drury. (2022, January 7). @IndependentSage Booster coverage by deprivation and age in England @IndependentSage https://t.co/9C6Tx4fRVo [Tweet]. @ProfJohnDrury. https://twitter.com/ProfJohnDrury/status/1479451829977198596

James 💙 Neill - 😷 🇪🇺🇮🇪🇬🇧🔶. (2021, December 30). @dgurdasani1 And for age 0-5... Https://t.co/ve3v92iJgR [Tweet]. @jneill. https://twitter.com/jneill/status/1476701258392211456

Prof. Debby Bogaert 💙. (2021, December 20). @chrischirp NL is slightly behind the UK re #omicron and based lockdown on a.o. This model (source @MarionKoopmans). Despite uncertainty the ‘continue as is’ effect on ICU beds occupied (red) is chilling. Green model is with lockdown after and blue is before Christmas. Decisiveness matters! Https://t.co/2IODZGnNJ6 [Tweet]. @DebbyBogaert. https://twitter.com/DebbyBogaert/status/1472845880411758592

Natalie E. Dean, PhD. (2022, January 2). Interesting. From this afternoon in @nytimes: Https://nytimes.com/2022/01/01/us/omicron-covid-holidays-surge-testing.html https://t.co/qCCkjXKS2K [Tweet]. @nataliexdean. https://twitter.com/nataliexdean/status/1477487783992254464

Eric Topol. (2022, January 14). Much less loss of smell and taste with Omicron, but more sore throat than with Delta https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1046623/Technical-Briefing-34-14January2022.pdf @UKHSA symptom data from ~175,000 Omicron and ~88,000 Delta cases https://t.co/DIGRGkoXa9 [Tweet]. @EricTopol. https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1482029245580808192

Devlin, H., Davis, N., & correspondents, N. D. S. (2022, January 14). Expect another Omicron wave in early summer, Sage says. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/14/expect-another-covid-omicron-wave-in-early-summer-sage-says

Dr. Cecília Tomori. (2021, December 27). Maryland—Just awful to watch what’s unfolding. Now at 1714 hospitalizations ⬆️ 130 in 24 hrs. 16.5% test positivity. Some counties have acted but no statewide 😷 policy! No measures to slow the spread. Https://coronavirus.maryland.gov https://t.co/C03cSRO2AX [Tweet]. @DrTomori. https://twitter.com/DrTomori/status/1475503877977948166

Jorge A. Caballero, MD. (2021, December 30). 544 children with #COVID19 were admitted to U.S. hospitals yesterday—This shattered the previous single-day record that was set 2 days ago (421) source: HHS (https://healthdata.gov/Hospital/COVID-19-Reported-Patient-Impact-and-Hospital-Capa/g62h-syeh) https://t.co/bOUylcyZlV [Tweet]. @DataDrivenMD. https://twitter.com/DataDrivenMD/status/1476357620550148100

O’donnell, C., & Aboulenein, A. (2021, December 30). COVID-19 hospitalization surge among U.S. children spurs new Omicron concerns. Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/covid-19-hospitalization-surge-among-us-children-spurs-new-omicron-concerns-2021-12-30/

Kathy Hochul. (2021, December 31). #COVID Update: -339,853 Test Results Reported -76,555 Positives -22.53% Positive -7,919 Hospitalizations (+546) -80 new deaths reported by healthcare facilities through HERDS https://t.co/dQqT4TaUGl [Tweet]. @GovKathyHochul. https://twitter.com/GovKathyHochul/status/1477009632841420800

Unvaccinated COVID-19 hospitalizations cost billions of dollars. (n.d.). Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker. Retrieved January 14, 2022, from https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/unvaccinated-covid-patients-cost-the-u-s-health-system-billions-of-dollars/

Kit Yates. (2022, January 4). There are sone issues with data from Wales and Northern Ireland covering the holiday weekend, but still, wow. U.K. breaches the 200k daily cases mark for the first time. Https://t.co/k5P96LeiRU [Tweet]. @Kit_Yates_Maths. https://twitter.com/Kit_Yates_Maths/status/1478414522205577224 i

Kit Yates. (2022, January 5). I can tell you for a fact that it isn’t ‘mild’ for everyone. Https://t.co/9DJHOMBv7F [Tweet]. @Kit_Yates_Maths. https://twitter.com/Kit_Yates_Maths/status/1478651876329594882

Alison Buttenheim. (2022, January 13). How many more days until Rhode Island’s cases line exceeds the word “exceeds” in the text header? 🙁 https://t.co/DFjqjHXutJ [Tweet]. @abuttenheim. https://twitter.com/abuttenheim/status/1481738740318015492

Helen Branswell. (2022, January 11). 1. #Omicron’s takeover was stunningly rapid and is now nearly complete, at least in the U.S. The latest “Nowcast” from @CDCgov (which uses recent data to model what’s happen now) suggests most of what is circulating here now is omicron. Https://t.co/6w3e8Ut5NW [Tweet]. @HelenBranswell. https://twitter.com/HelenBranswell/status/1480970453313277954

Nash, D. (n.d.). The CDC Got Lost Trying to Follow the Science. Retrieved January 14, 2022, from https://www.barrons.com/articles/cdc-guidance-covid-isolation-pandemic-51641847943

NSW records 22 deaths, 91,928 COVID-19 cases as rapid tests added to daily infection tallies. (2022, January 12). ABC News. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-13/nsw-records-22-deaths-and-91928-covid-cases/100753504

Stock, S. J., Carruthers, J., Calvert, C., Denny, C., Donaghy, J., Goulding, A., Hopcroft, L. E. M., Hopkins, L., McLaughlin, T., Pan, J., Shi, T., Taylor, B., Agrawal, U., Auyeung, B., Katikireddi, S. V., McCowan, C., Murray, J., Simpson, C. R., Robertson, C., … Wood, R. (2022). SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 vaccination rates in pregnant women in Scotland. Nature Medicine, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01666-2

Brian Wasik. (2022, January 13). A week later and NY State data still showing an extremely high hospitalization VE in the face of Omicron. Https://t.co/6tWPqyamoZ [Tweet]. @BrianRWasik. https://twitter.com/BrianRWasik/status/1481697336019537921

Active epidemiological investigation on SARS-CoV-2 infection caused by Omicron variant (Pango lineage B.1.1.529) in Japan: Preliminary report on infectious period. (n.d.). Retrieved January 14, 2022, from https://www.niid.go.jp/niid/en/2019-ncov-e/10884-covid19-66-en.html

Sample, I., & editor, I. S. S. (2022, January 13). Covid isolation to be cut to five full days in England, says Sajid Javid. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/13/covid-isolation-to-be-cut-to-five-full-days-in-england-says-sajid-javid

Stephen Reicher. (2022, January 13). Following evidence is that peak infectivity with Omicron comes 3-6 days after symptoms emerge (https://niid.go.jp/niid/en/2019-ncov-e/10884-covid19-66-en.html), the isolation period is cut to 5 days. How is this “following the science” https://t.co/XRf0pbgiHG [Tweet]. @ReicherStephen. https://twitter.com/ReicherStephen/status/1481652386993041415

Dolgin, E. (2022). Omicron thwarts some of the world’s most-used COVID vaccines. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00079-6

Jennifer K McDonald. (2021, October 16). Here’s the rebreathed fraction of air table from the all-knowing @DavidElfstrom [Tweet]. @JenniferKShea. https://twitter.com/JenniferKShea/status/1449380211435479047

Omicron Inevitability? 55% say they’ll be infected regardless of precautions; two-in-five would end all restrictions. (2022, January 13). Angus Reid Institute. https://angusreid.org/omicron-covid-19-inevitable-back-to-school/

Ariel Karlinsky. (2022, January 2). Russia at 1.04 MILLION excess deaths since March 2020, which is about 240% higher than their reported COVID-19 deaths. This is 1st place worldwide (for countries with data) in absolute excess mortality, 2nd place on per capita terms and 9th on p-score. #poptwitter #epitwitter https://t.co/aLBRRht3z2 [Tweet]. @ArielKarlinsky. https://twitter.com/ArielKarlinsky/status/1477531141510946818

Prof. Christina Pagel. (2022, January 10). I agree with pretty much all of this @FT article https://ft.com/content/e200156f-2e5a-4165-8aa2-28c24fe3c036 https://t.co/zhqPpqdyn7 [Tweet]. @chrischirp. https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1480568139947692041

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U.S. breaks record with more than 145,000 covid-19 hospitalizations. (n.d.). Washington Post. Retrieved January 12, 2022, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/01/10/covid-hospitalized-omicron/

Stanford, J. (n.d.). Healthy humans drive the economy: We’re now witnessing one of the worst public policy failures in Australia’s history. The Conversation. Retrieved January 12, 2022, from http://theconversation.com/healthy-humans-drive-the-economy-were-now-witnessing-one-of-the-worst-public-policy-failures-in-australias-history-174606

Banerjee, A. (2022, January 12). I’m leading a long Covid trial – it’s clear Britain has underestimated its impact. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/12/long-covid-trial-britain-short-term-virus

Sabina Vohra-Miller. (2022, January 7). The ’with’ or ‘because of’ Covid hospitalization argument is intentionally politicizing data. Https://t.co/oXcCQoFcZw [Tweet]. @SabiVM. https://twitter.com/SabiVM/status/1479591658845052929

Tseng, H. F., Ackerson, B. K., Luo, Y., Sy, L. S., Talarico, C., Tian, Y., Bruxvoort, K., Tupert, J. E., Florea, A., Ku, J. H., Lee, G. S., Choi, S. K., Takhar, H. S., Aragones, M., & Qian, L. (2022). Effectiveness of mRNA-1273 against SARS-CoV-2 omicron and delta variants (p. 2022.01.07.22268919). https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.07.22268919

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Blackall, M. (2021, May 8). Outgoing vaccine chief claims Covid will not be circulating in UK by August. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/08/clive-dix-claims-covid-not-in-uk-by-august-vaccine

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Tigran Avoundjian. (2022, January 3). Increases in hospitalizations routinely lag behind cases by a week (sometimes more). Deaths have an even longer lag. On 12/30, we had seen a 56% increase in 7-day hospitalization counts, and today we are seeing an 81% increase week-to-week. We have already passed the Sept peak. [Tweet]. @avoundji. https://twitter.com/avoundji/status/1478092404091588608

Ryan Imgrund. (2022, January 2). If schools are not a source of transmission for COVID-19, why were school board per capita rates of infection 1.77x HIGHER than their surrounding community? SOURCE: Ministry of Education data; Compiled on December 17th, 2021; Calculations are mine. Https://t.co/94trbDvw2C [Tweet]. @imgrund. https://twitter.com/imgrund/status/1477683538971529217

Augustin, E. (2022, January 5). Cuba’s vaccine success story sails past mark set by rich world’s Covid efforts. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/05/cuba-coronavirus-covid-vaccines-success-story

Yoni Freedhoff 🟣, MD. (2022, January 5). Good lord! The percent positivity rate in #Ottawa LTC’s PCR tests was 🚨83.72%🚨 yesterday (while Ottawa large was 50%)! [Tweet]. @YoniFreedhoff. https://twitter.com/YoniFreedhoff/status/1478832524533116931

Fionna O’Leary, 🕯🇪🇺. (2022, January 5). London peak 🏥 🛌 IN PATIENT in Jan 2021 was 7917. So currently about one doubling from that peak. Https://t.co/bBse930mSH [Tweet]. @fascinatorfun. https://twitter.com/fascinatorfun/status/1478808594166554627

Iacobucci, G. (2022). Covid-19: Fourth vaccine doses—who needs them and why? BMJ, 376, o30. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o30

How do death rates from COVID-19 differ between people who are vaccinated and those who are not? (n.d.). Our World in Data. Retrieved January 8, 2022, from https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccination

Diego Bassani, PhD 🏠😷 💉 💉 💉. (2022, January 7). Seasonality, huh? Https://t.co/WcarGXqRSY [Tweet]. @DGBassani. https://twitter.com/DGBassani/status/1479278943328944130

Cowper, A. (2022). Omicron: Who needs action when you’ve got Plan B? BMJ, 376, o15. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o15

jorgenponder — om coronavirusepidemin. (2022, January 6). The West: “We think you’re doing covid pandemic strategy all wrong.” Asia: “We don’t think of you at all.” https://t.co/fClY310vim [Tweet]. @jorgenponder. https://twitter.com/jorgenponder/status/1479072019174019073

Kayla Simpson. (2022, January 3). The COVID data coming out of NYC jails is...beyond staggering. Today’s report shows a 7-day avg positivity rate of 37%, w/502 ACTIVE INFECTIONS. With a ~5K census, that means that nearly one in ten people in DOC has an ACTIVE infection. Crisis on crisis. Https://hhinternet.blob.core.windows.net/uploads/2022/01/CHS-COVID-19-data-snapshot-2020103.pdf [Tweet]. @KSimpsonHere. https://twitter.com/KSimpsonHere/status/1478114046360657926

Happi, C. T., & Nkengasong, J. N. (2022). Two years of COVID-19 in Africa: Lessons for the world. Nature, 601(7891), 22–25. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03821-8

Meaghan Kall. (2022, January 3). ⚠️ Warning on death data on https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk NHS England has not reported hospital deaths since 1 January. The backlog will be reported Wednesday. Data are incomplete yesterday, today and tomorrow. Expect a bigger number reported on Wednesday. [Tweet]. @kallmemeg. https://twitter.com/kallmemeg/status/1478049788159569929

Coronavirus: Nothing in current data to support new curbs in England - ministers. (2022, January 2). BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59853621

Spiegelhalter, D., & Masters, A. (2022, January 2). Can you capture the complex reality of the pandemic with numbers? Well, we tried…. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/02/2021-year-when-interpreting-covid-statistics-crucial-to-reach-truth

Virology Down Under. (n.d.). Virology Down Under. Retrieved 3 January 2022, from https://virologydownunder.com/

Dr Rob Whitehurst. (2022, January 2). “Uncoupled” https://t.co/KjG4VTgb88 [Tweet]. @OYCar. https://twitter.com/OYCar/status/1477469346989436929

Millman • •, Jennifer. ‘NY Pre-Christmas COVID Testing Delivers Record Total Just Shy of 50,000 Cases in Single Day’. NBC New York (blog). Accessed 3 January 2022. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/ny-pre-christmas-covid-testing-delivers-record-total-just-shy-of-50000-cases-in-single-day/3468284/.

Keeling, M. J., Brooks-Pollock, E., Challen, R. J., Danon, L., Dyson, L., Gog, J. R., Guzman-Rincon, L., Hill, E. M., Pellis, L. M., Read, J. M., & Tildesley, M. (2021). Short-term Projections based on Early Omicron Variant Dynamics in England. (p. 2021.12.30.21268307). https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.30.21268307

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Omicron and children: Pediatric hospitals in parts of U.S. filling fast. (n.d.). Washington Post. Retrieved December 28, 2021, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/24/omicron-children-hospitalizations-us/

Omicron and children: Pediatric hospitals in parts of U.S. filling fast. (n.d.). Washington Post. Retrieved December 28, 2021, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/24/omicron-children-hospitalizations-us/

Andrew Account for lags Kunzmann. (2021, December 28). @ProfMattFox Fatalism can be fatal https://t.co/fa4mgVn3OZ [Tweet]. @1987Andrewk. https://twitter.com/1987Andrewk/status/1475825206564376579

Trisha Greenhalgh. (2021, December 27). This is nothing short of scandalous. Unless and until those leading the public health response acknowledge the AIRBORNE nature of the virus and give transmission mitigation advice commensurate with how airborne viruses spread, we will be yo-yoing from wave to wave ad infinitum. [Tweet]. @trishgreenhalgh. https://twitter.com/trishgreenhalgh/status/1475502337594646528

Murray, J. (2021, December 28). Omicron is ‘not the same disease’ as earlier Covid waves, says UK scientist. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/28/omicron-is-not-the-same-disease-as-earlier-covid-waves-says-uk-scientist

Eric Topol. (2021, October 27). 'The benefit of a third [booster] dose in reducing transmission is sizeable and increases with vaccine coverage and contact rates among individuals." https://medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.25.21265500v1 by @billygardner and @DiseaseEcology https://t.co/zAZcJgF1nJ [Tweet]. @EricTopol. https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1453153076165021696

A Marm Kilpatrick. (2021, November 24). How do we get broad immunity to SARS-CoV-2 that will protect against future variants? 2 studies (are there more?) suggest that vaccination followed by infection gives broader protection than infection followed by vaccination. @florian_krammer @profshanecrotty @GuptaR_lab https://t.co/rqdf6rE9ej [Tweet]. @DiseaseEcology. https://twitter.com/DiseaseEcology/status/1463391782742335491

Abraar Karan. (2021, December 9). “Participants who received a booster at least 5 months after a second dose of BNT162b2 had 90% lower mortality due to Covid-19 than participants who did not receive a booster.” #covid19 https://t.co/zmXHyE7Lqb [Tweet]. @AbraarKaran. https://twitter.com/AbraarKaran/status/1468849516199563265

ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: “but it is not vaccinated people that are disproportionately filling up ICUs. For any government whose policy is guided by ICU capacity, limiting the transmission possibilities for the unvaccinated is now the point. It is frustrating to see someone continue to ignore this” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved December 23, 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1471088416246878211

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, December 17). RT @peterdodds: Current excess deaths estimate per @TheEconomist: 18.2 million with 95% range of 11.4 million to 21.2 million. And up it… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1471903926035353610

Omicron largely evades immunity from past infection or two vaccine doses | Imperial News | Imperial College London. (n.d.). Imperial News. Retrieved December 21, 2021, from https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/232698/modelling-suggests-rapid-spread-omicron-england/

Travelling Tabby. (2021, December 20). Https://travellingtabby.com/scotland-coronavirus-tracker/ There were over 6,700 new cases reported today, which is one of the highest days we’ve had. And a positivity rate of over 15% too, which is the joint highest we’ve had since reporting began. #covid19scotland #coronavirusscotland #DailyCovidUpdate https://t.co/ZvrVGc2J3I [Tweet]. @TravellingTabby. https://twitter.com/TravellingTabby/status/1472952525544255489

Reuters. (2021, December 20). Moderna says booster produces strong antibody response to Omicron. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/20/moderna-booster-strong-antibody-response-omicron-covid-vaccine-variant

Colin Davis. (2021, December 20). Update for 20th Dec. The trend line still reflects 1.8 day doubling (it’s 1.7 days if we look at just the last week). Today’s number is down, but I wouldn’t read too much into that at this point. Https://t.co/kOCjxhRbop [Tweet]. @ProfColinDavis. https://twitter.com/ProfColinDavis/status/1472969632705392640

World Health Organization (WHO). (2021, December 2). Dr @mvankerkhove updates on what we know so far about the new #COVID19 variant of concern, Omicron ⬇️ https://t.co/43jqMUotrX [Tweet]. @WHO. https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1466376465990180864

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, December 7). Given an estimate whereby the average person knows ca. 600 people, assuming 50% vaxxed, the average person would know 8 people who died of the vaccine. It is hard to believe numeracy is so low that people cannot see how crazy these “statistics” are... [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1468163579069280258

Arieh Kovler. (2021, November 26). Israel has identified four cases of the B.1.1.529 variant, all recent travellers. One case, a 32-year-old woman returning from South Africa, was triple vaccinated with Pfizer and had her 3rd dose just two months ago. [Tweet]. @ariehkovler. https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1464190991204859919

Acme Birch Beer. (2021, December 13). A long thread on @NYTimes/@washingtonpost/@TheAtlantic’s favorite prediction-making expert, Monica Gandhi. Feb 22, 2021: “I need to say variants, shmariants, okay? I’m sorry, I don’t know what kind of trouble that’s going to get me in...” https://t.co/CwQL6QBG78 [Tweet]. @KindAndUnblind. https://twitter.com/KindAndUnblind/status/1470389931679883268