#Virus

Tim Skellett

Gurdur

A thread for all the anti-'lockdown' people. Let's do it with logic. 1/n Practicalities. The so-called lockdowns haven't hurt widely as much as the virus has just by itself. Look

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

Many new studies suggest that one of the fundamental assumptions about COVID that 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚 is susceptible, may be wrong. CAUTION: However, this doesn’t mean that we relax any precautions, coz

Daniel Silveira

danielPMERJ

Venho avisando há um certo tempo: estamos em uma nova era, onde não precisamos mais de tecnologias militares para lançar bombas ou tomar territórios. Estamos na Bio-era e sofreremos novos

Lois Parshley

LoisParshley

Subtle arguments on Twitter are a losing battle, but going to try to address schools and #Covid19 with nuance: It's been really hard to get good data on children and

GEO at U-Michigan

geo3550

Great article by @ShawnHubler in the @nytimes about the situation at U-M this term. Some gaps here though - no mention of GEO's summer advocacy with allies, only a brief

Kashif Pirzada, MD

KashPrime

This was in yesterday's Globe, rapid spread of the UK variant with just a few minutes of contact. The 15 mins/2 meter distancing rule won't work when a virus

Dr. Richard Corsi

CorsIAQ

B117 is spreading in US but we have not seen the explosion yet. Brace yourselves. These outcomes in Italy & Israel should give pause, a motivation for tripling down on

Nick Judin

nickjudin

I'll tell you right now: I'm listening to doctors, nurses, caregivers, epidemiologists and clinicians. My door is open to them, and it always will be.They are mad as hell. They

Whitney R. Robinson

WhitneyEpi

Key background 1: Because of limited supplies of #COVID19 vaccine, a federal advisory board making recommendations about the order in which people should get vaccinated (don’t get distracted: these recs

Lionel Case

lionel_case

1/Thread : Vaccins à ARN, OGMs, CRISPR/Cas : si on mettait un peu d’ordre ?Aujourd’hui nous allons ranger notre boite à outils génétiques, pour bien différencier marteaux et tournevis.Objectif: on

Cleavon MD

Cleavon_MD

I’m off from work today, but my mind is still in the emergency room. Sitting across from loved ones in the consultation room beginning that difficult conversation, “What do you

Baiken

Baiken86065020

NUMBER CRUNCHING TIME: (long post)How many people die in the United States in a normal year?Here is data for the last five years:2015 - 2,712,6302016 - 2,744,2482017 - 2,813,5032018 -

Malini Aisola

malini_aisola

Ella misleads again "12yrs & above we have already done a trial"Facts: There are data for 14 kids in age grp of 12-18 yrs from the Phase 2 trial of

Governor Roy Cooper

NC_Governor

Updates from Gov. Cooper's COVID-19 briefing:https://twitter.com/NC_Governor/status/1336399015445979137 As of today, we’ve had 404,032 cases; 4,670 new cases reported since yesterday; 2,373 people in the hospital, a new record high; a

Pete Foley

PeteIn280

Further information this week on the South African variant which, along with one of the two Brazilian variants, is of most concern.The South African variant was shown to be resistant

Tom Wenseleers

TWenseleers

(1/10) What genomic features make SARS-CoV2 more pathogenic? A study in PNAS looked into this: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/26/15193. "Distinct inserts in the spike glycoprotein are associated with high case fatality rate of

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