PolitiTweet Archive
Home Figures About
Donate
Profile Image

Nate Silver

@NateSilver538 ↗

  • Overview
  • Archive
  • Deleted
Deleted No
Hibernated No
Last Checked Aug. 16, 2021

Created

Wed Aug 11 18:32:42 +0000 2021

Likes

91

Retweets

1

Source

Twitter Web App

View Raw Data

JSON Data

View on Twitter

Likely Available
Profile Image

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

@EricTopol @ashishkjha But REACT isn't (at least I'm pretty sure) controlling for the seropositivity of the unvaccinated group, which is likely pretty high in the UK and plausibly makes a big difference. It's also not distinguishing Pfizer vs AZ. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 11, 2021

Preceded By

Profile Image

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Just off the cuff, here are 10 things to think about when you read competing claims about vaccine effectiveness. Several of these can plausibly change the numbers quite a lot, which is why it's not surprising that there's disagreement from study to study. https://t.co/Y5ceLEq0Ti — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 11, 2021

Followed By

Profile Image

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Also: 11. Some studies have small samples. 12. If you're interested in Delta, make sure you're not using pre-Delta data. 13. There may be complicated statistical effects if people vary in the extent to which they're protected by the vaccines, see e.g.: https://t.co/6bX66iUn7d — PolitiTweet.org

Wes Pegden @WesPegden

@NateSilver538 There's an interesting effect where variability in susceptiblity can lead to increasing underestimat… https://t.co/oCca3EIM8I

Posted Aug. 11, 2021

© 2025 Politiwatch. Tweets and other media belong to their indicated owners; all other materials are licensed CC-BY-SA. If you use PolitiTweet professionally, please feel free to let us know. Note that PolitiTweet stopped archiving new tweets on April 3, 2023, when Twitter disabled our API access.