#Virus

Proud to have two stories on the homepage today — both, sadly, about the failures of leadership in coping with this pandemic. The first, with my colleagues @mattapuzzo and @selamgkidan
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Again, a briefing for journalists, this time on vaccine trials, types of vaccine, efficacy and safety. (Context: I am a two-steps expert away from vaccine development; I am a one-step
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On The Necessity & Effectiveness of Masks: Okay, so this is going to sound like the craziest thing you've heard all day, but bear with me. Everyone knows Fauci, Redfield
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The Story Behind Vaccination and Vaccines.[Thread] The practice of immunisation dates back hundreds of years. Buddhist monks drank snake venom to confer immunity to snake bite and variolation (smearing of
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Dear Nevada @GovSisolak, With the climbing number of covid cases in our state I have a pretty basic and straightforward question I would like answered by you.Q- Why are you
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The COVID virus has a new RNA sequence which hasn’t been found before and is unique to that virus.For the RT-PCR test they take 1 of the RNA sequences, they
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Eight years ago, Spencer Cox died of #AIDS. He had access to #antiretroviral therapy, but in his own struggles with #depression and substance use, he stopped taking them. 1/https://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/resources/tagline/tagline-wint
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Fyi den stora majoriteten av de som smittas av polio blir inte heller allvarligt sjuka När folk försöker bagatellisera SARS-CoV-2 med att den oftast har ett lindrigt förlopp i barn
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I know the technical PCR nerdery is hard for the general public. I feel this whenever I read a hardcore immunology paper!A few thoughts on the concerns about PCR...PCR threshold
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Total mortalities in the #USA that can reasonably be attributed to the #COVID19 pandemic since the first reported death in Washington State on Feb 29 are eclipsing the great killing
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So I'm around people who work in ER's a lot, and here's something that's not being appreciated as much as it should: Yes, they want you to wear a mask
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The biggest untold story of 2020 is that Moderna took just 48 hours in Jan to develop a 95% effective vaccine. It then took 11 months for vaccinations to begin
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(thread) I’m seeing too much misinformation about the vaccines on her daily. It has become so bad that I can’t stay silent on the topic. Working in the industry I
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The world's best system of disinformation sits not in Moscow, but Beijing. A new leak shows how Beijing pulled on specialized software, censors, trolls, snitches, and police to exert precise
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3 years from now, some of you will look back & admit that you spent an entire year of your life wearing a mask, cooped up in your house &
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Here is the context: you are going to read and hear about a million and one variant viruses, because viruses mutate by nature. It’s scary, I know. But, a couple
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