10 lessons I’ve learned from the Covid–19 pandemic. (2021, December 28). STAT. https://www.statnews.com/2021/12/28/10-lessons-ive-learned-from-the-covid-19-pandemic/

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

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

As India approves Corbevax, here’s all you need to know about the new COVID-19 vaccine. (2021, December 28). Zee News. https://zeenews.india.com/india/india-approves-corbevax-here-s-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-covid-19-vaccine-2423407.html

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

Chertow, Daniel, Sydney Stein, Sabrina Ramelli, Alison Grazioli, Joon-Yong Chung, Manmeet Singh, Claude Kwe Yinda, et al. ‘SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Persistence throughout the Human Body and Brain’, 28 December 2021. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1139035/v1.

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Deepti Gurdasani. (2021, December 23). Some brief thoughts on the concerning relativism I’ve seen creeping into media, and scientific rhetoric over the past 20 months or so—The idea that things are ok because they’re better relative to a point where things got really really bad. 🧵 [Tweet]. @dgurdasani1. https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1474042179110772736

Pagel, C., & Squires, A. (2021). Schools: Still a gaping hole in the English covid strategy. BMJ, 375, n3149. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n3149

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): How is it transmitted? (n.d.). Retrieved December 24, 2021, from https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/coronavirus-disease-covid-19-how-is-it-transmitted

Corona-Liveblog: Gesundheitsämter stellen Kontaktverfolgung wegen Personalmangel ein. (n.d.). FAZ.NET. Retrieved December 24, 2021, from https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/gesundheit/coronavirus/corona-liveticker-gesundheitsaemter-stellen-kontaktverfolgung-ein-17305447.html

Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH. (2021, October 14). That awful VAERS preprint, championed by anti-vaxxers Marjorie Taylor Greene & Robert Malone, which argued the vax is more dangerous than Covid, refuses to die The preprint was coauthored by a member of Rational Ground, an extreme Covid denialist group that harasses scientists [Tweet]. @GYamey. https://twitter.com/GYamey/status/1448641593150345216

Eric Topol. (2021, October 19). Just published @ScienceTM With blunting of the immune response, why it is so important for pregnant women to get a Covid vaccine https://science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abm2070 w/ @ScienceVisuals https://t.co/aCY6LP4Taa [Tweet]. @EricTopol. https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1450475410328850435

Timothy Caulfield. (2021, October 19). Politics is derailing a crucial debate over the immunity you get from recovering from #Covid19 https://statnews.com/2021/10/19/politics-is-derailing-a-crucial-debate-over-the-immunity-you-get-from-recovering-from-covid-19/ @levfacher via @statnews “People on the right scream, so people on the left say no. We’re in this horrible, awful feedback loop of vitriol right now.” [Tweet]. @CaulfieldTim. https://twitter.com/CaulfieldTim/status/1450475493262864393

Meaghan Kall. (2021, November 15). There are 2 other impressive conclusions from this study: 1. Comparing vaccine effectiveness of booster vs “fully vaxxed” as the baseline. Booster ADDS 81-85% protection against symptomatic infection ON TOP of what you already had from your primary (2-dose) vaccination https://t.co/5EO7m6GHTZ [Tweet]. @kallmemeg. https://twitter.com/kallmemeg/status/1460207567070769156

Prof. Dr. Sanjeev Bagai. (2021, November 23). Comprehensive dossier evidence of effectiveness of third dose Vax. @TVMohandasPai @ARanganathan72 @TimesNow @RShivshankar [Tweet]. @BagaiDr. https://twitter.com/BagaiDr/status/1463121434830512129

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

Prof. Shane Crotty. (2021, November 2). Wow. COVID vaccine misinformation continues to be soooo horrible. This is incredible widespread and ABSOLUTELY made up. (Just like the insanity of implantable chips they continue to claim over and over) These fabrications are so damaging to the health of Americans. [Tweet]. @profshanecrotty. https://twitter.com/profshanecrotty/status/1455540502955241489

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

Joshua P. Cohen. (2021, December 12). @thehowie Indeed, this is a tragedy. International studies demonstrate a causal link between unvaccinated pregnant women infected with coronavirus and stillbirths. Vaccination is imperative. Https://t.co/vm7Qe5mRCT [Tweet]. @JoshuaPCohen1. https://twitter.com/JoshuaPCohen1/status/1469819822016012288

Kit Yates. (2021, December 22). “There is no evidence currently that COVID-19 vaccines are linked to an increase in sportspeople collapsing or dying due to heart issues such as myocarditis.” https://t.co/mw7l9zRSJX [Tweet]. @Kit_Yates_Maths. https://twitter.com/Kit_Yates_Maths/status/1473590628965617666

Dr Duncan Robertson. (2021, December 14). This is an important point that needs to get out there. It takes time for the booster to work. People will not have invincibility straight after receiving their booster, and should still be cautious. [Tweet]. @Dr_D_Robertson. https://twitter.com/Dr_D_Robertson/status/1470795837525663749

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

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, December 22). RT @Rebeccasmt: Exclusive: Hospitals plan for ‘mass casualty’ event with up to one-third of staff sick https://t.co/bwA1s80SgZ [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1473604922910380032

Walker, P., Sample, I., Stewart, H., & Adams, R. (2021, December 22). Vulnerable children aged 5-11 to be offered Covid jabs. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/dec/22/jcvi-set-to-recommend-vaccinating-vulnerable-five--to-11-year-olds

Herman, J. (2021, December 22). More than a million of us are suffering with long Covid – yet still it’s not taken seriously. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/22/long-covid-pandemic-support-funding

Sefik, E., Israelow, B., Mirza, H., Zhao, J., Qu, R., Kaffe, E., Song, E., Halene, S., Meffre, E., Kluger, Y., Nussenzweig, M., Wilen, C. B., Iwasaki, A., & Flavell, R. A. (2021). A humanized mouse model of chronic COVID-19. Nature Biotechnology, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-01155-4

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, December 18). One thing I keep coming back to in my thoughts is the formerly respected scientists who completely lost their way in this pandemic. Is there something we could be teaching young researchers that would help minimise this in future? Are there norms of science we could strengthen? [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1472172123829456897

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/

Press, A. (2021, December 18). Court rules Biden’s vaccine mandate for large employers can take effect. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/18/court-rules-bidens-vaccine-mandate-for-large-employers-can-take-effect

Far-right lures recruits using COVID-19 conspiracy theories, alongside misogyny, anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia, says study. (n.d.). Retrieved December 21, 2021, from https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/far-lures-recruits-using-covid-134548878.html

Calgary Herald. (n.d.). Calgaryherald. Retrieved December 21, 2021, from https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/anti-covid-vaccine-dad-loses-battle-with-ex-wife-over-whether-to-get-their-children-inoculated

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

Doctor dismantles typical COVID vaccine hesitancy arguments by putting forward alternative scenario. (n.d.). Sky News. Retrieved December 21, 2021, from https://news.sky.com/story/doctor-dismantles-typical-covid-vaccine-hesitancy-arguments-by-putting-forward-alternative-scenario-12501207

Peter den Haan. (2021, December 21). @dgurdasani1 Two headlines, one year apart. ~74,000 dead. Nothing learned whatsoever. Https://t.co/pjEmUoXxfA [Tweet]. @revpdh. https://twitter.com/revpdh/status/1473252947903590402

Richterman, A., Scott, J., & Cevik, M. (2021). Covid-19 vaccines, immunity, and boosters. BMJ, 375, n3105. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n3105

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

Suran, M. (2021). Why Parents Still Hesitate to Vaccinate Their Children Against COVID-19. JAMA. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2021.21625

Quadri, S. (2021, December 20). Piers Corbyn arrested after urging public to ‘burn MPs’ offices’. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/piers-corbyn-arrested-protest-video-mp-offices-burn-b972788.html

Savage, M., McKie, R., & Ungoed-Thomas, J. (2021, December 18). UK scientists: Bring in curbs now or face up to 2m daily Covid infections as Omicron spreads. The Observer. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/18/uk-scientists-curbs-covid-infections-omicron-deaths-restrictions-sage

Tapper, J. (2021, December 19). Mass rapid tests in Liverpool cut hospital stays by a third. The Observer. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/19/mass-rapid-tests-in-liverpool-cut-hospital-stays-by-a-third

Facebook, Twitter, options, S. more sharing, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Email, URLCopied!, C. L., & Print. (2021, December 17). Op-Ed: How can we prevent a second winter of despair with Omicron? Los Angeles Times. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-12-17/op-ed-averting-a-second-winter-of-despair-with-omicron

Prosser, A., Helfer, B., & Streiner, D. L. (2021). Evaluating the number of unvaccinated people needed to exclude to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmissions (p. 2021.12.08.21267162). https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.08.21267162

Loud Silenced Doctors | Science-Based Medicine. (2021, December 19). https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/muzzled/

SPI-M-O: Consensus statement on COVID-19, 15 December 2021. (n.d.). GOV.UK. Retrieved 20 December 2021, from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/spi-m-o-consensus-statement-on-covid-19-15-december-2021/spi-m-o-consensus-statement-on-covid-19-15-december-2021

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Harry Spoelstra. (2021, November 26). Breaking: ECDC has designated B.1.1.529 today as a #VOC https://t.co/WyLnc9xUoJ [Tweet]. @HarrySpoelstra. https://twitter.com/HarrySpoelstra/status/1464261361370910721

Harry Spoelstra. (2021, November 26). Breaking: ECDC has designated B.1.1.529 today as a #VOC https://t.co/WyLnc9xUoJ [Tweet]. @HarrySpoelstra. https://twitter.com/HarrySpoelstra/status/1464261361370910721

Eric Topol. (2021, November 27). View of key mutations of Omicron’s 50, with 30 in the spike protein, 15 in its receptor binding domain https://ft.com/content/42c5ff3d-e676-4076-9b9f-7243a00cba5e http://covariants.org @EllingUlrich @_b_meyer https://t.co/onMoNFVLFJ [Tweet]. @EricTopol. https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1464452102382448643

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

Eric Topol. (2021, December 14). The bottom line that is worth a few seconds for you to read https://t.co/nOzyaxO9od [Tweet]. @EricTopol. https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1470767386810884100

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

Novavax and Serum Institute of India Announce World Health Organization Grants Emergency Use Listing for NVX-CoV2373 COVID-19 Vaccine—Dec 17, 2021. (n.d.). Retrieved December 18, 2021, from https://ir.novavax.com/2021-12-17-Novavax-and-Serum-Institute-of-India-Announce-World-Health-Organization-Grants-Emergency-Use-Listing-for-NVX-CoV2373-COVID-19-Vaccine?sf156899079=1

News ·, P. P. · C. (2021, December 13). How neighbours and communities are divided over COVID-19 in this rural Alberta county | CBC News. CBC. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/northwest-alberta-has-lowest-vaccination-rate-in-province-1.6280652

Benjy Renton. (2021, December 14). New data from CDC finds that the Omicron variant represented 2.9% of new cases in the US last week. Https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions https://t.co/AqM8a1vekm [Tweet]. @bhrenton. https://twitter.com/bhrenton/status/1470765699907870729

Man whose wife won a lawsuit to treat his COVID-19 with ivermectin has died. (n.d.). Retrieved December 17, 2021, from https://ca.news.yahoo.com/man-whose-wife-won-lawsuit-203019784.html

Kim Willsher. (2021, December 16). Let’s try again...new “drastic” regulations for anyone planning to come to France from UK. There must be a “compelling” reason. This does not include tourism or business French nationals/residents can return but must have a negative Covid test within 24hrs before departure. 1/2 [Tweet]. @kimwillsher1. https://twitter.com/kimwillsher1/status/1471401803828764682

Tom Moultrie. (2021, December 17). A 1-figure Gauteng update, bringing in data through Wednesday 15/12 (PCR only; by date of collection). The turn continues. On similar metrics (not shown) ALL northern provinces (NW, GT, MP, LP) seem to have now turned. Https://t.co/6Bh3kZsooK [Tweet]. @tomtom_m. https://twitter.com/tomtom_m/status/1471723711287996416

Jay Varma. (2021, December 16). Um, we’ve never seen this before in #NYC. Test positivity doubling in three days 12/9—3.9% 12/10—4.2% 12/11—6.4% 12/12—7.8% Note: Test % is only for PCR & NYC does more per capita daily than most places ~67K PCR/day + 19K [reported] antigen over past few days (1/2) https://t.co/PhxsZq55jn [Tweet]. @DrJayVarma. https://twitter.com/DrJayVarma/status/1471485885447389186

Carl Zimmer. (2021, December 15). Connecticut has gone practically vertical https://nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html?referringSource=articleShare https://t.co/mBlybyTpAA [Tweet]. @carlzimmer. https://twitter.com/carlzimmer/status/1470986172583317506

Convalescent plasma not efficacious in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. (n.d.). Retrieved December 17, 2021, from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-12-convalescent-plasma-efficacious-hospitalized-covid-.html

Eric Topol. (2020, November 28). This will go down in history as one of science and medical research’s greatest achievements. Perhaps the most impressive. I put together a preliminary timeline of some key milestones to show how several years of work were compressed into months. Https://t.co/BPcaZwDFkl [Tweet]. @EricTopol. https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1332771238771630080

Wilhelm, A., Widera, M., Grikscheit, K., Toptan, T., Schenk, B., Pallas, C., Metzler, M., Kohmer, N., Hoehl, S., Helfritz, F. A., Wolf, T., Goetsch, U., & Ciesek, S. (2021). Reduced Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant by Vaccine Sera and monoclonal antibodies (p. 2021.12.07.21267432). https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.07.21267432

Theo Sanderson. (2021, December 16). 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. Https://t.co/CJF5kQqBpl [Tweet]. @theosanderson. https://twitter.com/theosanderson/status/1471537690650812420

Morgan, M. (2021). Matt Morgan: Caring for unvaccinated patients. BMJ, 374, n2022. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2022

COVID news live: Record number of boosters given out for second day - as Whitty predicts Omicron wave will ‘peak quite fast’. (n.d.). Sky News. Retrieved 17 December 2021, from https://news.sky.com/story/covid-news-live-professor-chris-whitty-to-be-questioned-by-mps-on-omicron-as-a-million-could-be-isolating-with-covid-on-christmas-day-12469075

Vaccination among the pregnant lagging despite growing evidence of safety and efficacy. (2021, December 10). Healthy Debate. https://healthydebate.ca/2021/12/topic/vaccination-pregnant-safe-efficacy/

Proposal to split B.1.1.529 to incorporate a newly characterised sibling lineage · Issue #361 · cov-lineages/pango-designation. (n.d.). GitHub. Retrieved 17 December 2021, from https://github.com/cov-lineages/pango-designation/issues/361

Carl T. Bergstrom. (2021, December 16). Indeed. Https://t.co/5xa28la941 [Tweet]. @CT_Bergstrom. https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1471345956981391360