#Virus

New York Magazine

NYMag

For years, scientists have been hot-wiring viruses to be stronger, deadlier, and more transmissible. The bet was that their work would help prevent a global pandemic. But what if it

Hanna Merzbach

HannaMerzbach

I worked with @SeveranceTVnews on this explainer about the COVID-19 vaccine in Oregon. Check out this thread for a few things we know so far. 1/7https://www.kgw.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/vaccine/what-we-know-about-the-covid-19-vac

Tomás Ryan

TJRyan_77

The best thing I read in 2020: "The West has failed – US and Europe have made a mess of handling the crisis" by @NaomiOhReally in the @IrishTimes https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/the-west-has-failed-us-and-europe-have-made-a-m

Ciaran Jenkins

C4Ciaran

Testing has been under strain this week to put it mildly. We went to a care home at the heart of an area battling a COVID outbreak. Surely if anyone’s

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

I hate to sound like one of those “elite intellectual” types but if state governors don’t learn to understand (or remember from 2 months ago but whatever) what a time

Conor Ruzycki

caruzycki

1/ This video on a classroom filled with plexiglass barriers is making the rounds. As the poster notes, it’s not a great student experience to be stuck in one of

Blood Cancer UK

bloodcancer_uk

1/ THREAD: With many schools going back on Monday and the infection rate now high across the country, we are concerned that parents who have blood cancer are not being

Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺

fascinatorfun

Watching New Zealand's v bungling UK Announcing a lockdown on 23 March, Jacinda Ardern took a firm line, telling the country that the worst-case scenario of thousands of deaths was

Joanne Allman

canutes_lesson

Appalled by @BBCNews cheerleading for the #Pfizervaccine and complete lack of any scrutiny or rigorous analysis. Presenters have given up any pretence at journalism and morphed into #vaccine sales executives.

YoungMinds

YoungMindsUK

What impact has coronavirus had on young people with mental health needs? We asked over 2,000 young people to find out. This is what they told us.[A THREAD] “My mental

Heidi RN

txpoliticjunkie

It’s hard for me to believe a man as brilliant as Bannon would commit such a stupid crime as lying on their 990 non-profit statement. Something isn’t right. I know

Dr Emily Grossman

DrEmilyGrossman

NEW EXPLAINER ATTACHED: why you should ignore people or articles saying there’s insufficient evidence of the link between Covid and Vitamin D and start taking 4000 IU (100 micrograms) /

Adam

adancabdulle

These are the top 5 books I read this year. Focusing on media, organizations, the fight between pathogens & people, social mobility & the power of language; these 5 books,

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

Very concerning report - 47 cases of the 501Y.V2 (variant arisen from South Africa) reported in surveillance within the UK. This is the variant with the E484K mutation that has

Kevin Ng

KevinWNg

An updated version of our manuscript on antibody cross-reactivity between seasonal coronaviruses and SARS-CoV-2 is now online:https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.14.095414v2 Plenty of new data in this version, including a proper

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

1. Updated thread on children & #COVID19, summarising recent research.Summary: further evidence children and adults are equally susceptible, and similarly likely to transmit. Schools have been a driver of the

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