Emil Iftekhar
@EmilIftekhar
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Researcher on COVID-19 at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization. Trying to maximize my positive impact on the world.
Joined April 2021
RT @GRozhnova: 🔔🔔🔔 I am hiring a PhD student in infectious disease modeling. Please share! 🔔🔔🔔
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RT @TheLancet: "Social science shows that apparently simple or blanket solutions to public health problems are not as straightforward as th….
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RT @nikosbosse: My colleague @JDMunday gave a presentation about his research where he would mark all strong assumptions with a literal 'el….
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RT @ViolaPriesemann: We have an open position for an intern or research assistant to support us in conducting online surveys about COVID-19….
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RT @mikrowie: Die Abwassersurveillance kann ein sehr wertvolles Frühwarnsystem sein. Dank an all jene, die unsere gemeinsamen Pilotprojekte….
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RT @DWR_eco: Die #Bundesregierung bereitet ein neues Maßnahmenpaket für ein klimaneutrales Stromsystem vor; u.a. mit Booster für die #Erneu….
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RT @ben_j_todd: There's $1bn+ available for these anti-pandemic megaprojects:. 1. Int early detection centre .2. Actually good PPE.3. Rapid….
forum.effectivealtruism.org
Andrew Snyder-Beattie and Ethan Alley • This is a list of longtermist biosecurity projects. We think most of them could reduce catastrophic biorisk…
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RT @priesemannlab: Mitigating the spread of #COVID-19 relies on voluntary and mandatory action. In our recent paper, we show how voluntary….
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RT @PeterWilleit: On 11 Feb at 1 pm, I will present our Tyrol-wide SARS-CoV-2 antibody study in blood donors to @WHO Solidarity II. Please….
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RT @BenjaminMeyer85: Here is a bit of a longer explanatory thread on our recent paper on “Infectious viral load in unvaccinated and vaccina….
medrxiv.org
Background Viral load (VL) is one determinant of secondary transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Emergence of variants of concerns (VOC) Alpha and Delta was ascribed, at least partly, to higher VL. Furthermo...
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RT @BagheriMos: With masks for Omicron, the upper bound of infection risk is lower than Delta. We assumed that Omicron is three times more….
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RT @JVLazarus: @EmilIftekhar @Sumidu @BPrainsack @martinmckee @BaryPradelski @ISGLOBALorg Europe must also adopt a Vaccine Plus approach: s….
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RT @GuntramWolff: Omicron transmits easily & cases increase rapidly. This Omicron tsunami puts critical infrastructure, services, health ca….
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RT @CzypionkaThomas: New paper on a joint European strategy against #Omicron out in @bmj_latest by a muti-disciplinary and international gr….
bmj.com
The SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant is spreading rapidly in Europe, even in countries with high levels of vaccination, including those that have moved quickly with booster vaccinations.12 We write as...
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RT @Sumidu: -- Thank you to all authors for the amazing collaboration. @EmilIftekhar @LilianKojan @OliuBarton @martinmckee @robert_bohm @s….
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RT @JVLazarus: "Europe must come together to confront omicron" -that's the message and in we put forward three reco….
bmj.com
The SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant is spreading rapidly in Europe, even in countries with high levels of vaccination, including those that have moved quickly with booster vaccinations.12 We write as...
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RT @OliuBarton: As a scientist, I am glad to join this call to action against Omicron, co-authored with @Sumidu @EmilIftekhar @martinmckee….
bmj.com
The SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant is spreading rapidly in Europe, even in countries with high levels of vaccination, including those that have moved quickly with booster vaccinations.12 We write as...
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RT @ECMOKaragianni1: Ich will dies nochmal nachdrücklich unterstreichen. Die meisten wegen #COVID, aber im Klinikalltag ist der Aufwand zur….
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RT @Sander_Lab: Impfen macht auch bei #Omicron den Unterschied. Kaum Effekt auf Infektion. Starker Schutz vor Krankenhauseinweisung & Tod.….
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