#Viruses

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Contrary to recent claims, #SARSCoV2 is expected to be seasonal, as are essentially all >200 respiratory viruses in circulation, including the four 'common cold' coronaviruses (see below). (1/5)Source: https://smw.ch/article/doi/

🐙 Susan Dennard 🏳️‍🌈

stdennard

I've been quiet on Twitter lately, in case anyone has missed my ANGRY YELLING about the p-word.After two weeks of anxiety spirals and obsessive news reading, my muse and I

Ashleigh Tuite

AshTuite

I’ve been thinking a lot about the @SickKidsNews report on schools re-opening in Ontario and the response to that report. For me, what is so jarring about the report is

Hyser Lab

HyserLab

Meet the authors @MicroMindy @thekengevik! This dyanmic duo are a backbone of https://bit.ly/35Qn8dH . Mindy fr @DrJamesVersalov lab & @Alexicon_CG worked on the physiological consequences of #rotavirus Ca2+ . Kristen joined

James Todaro, MD

JamesTodaroMD

1/ Growing research demonstrating importance of protective T-cells against SARS-CoV-2 combined w/ prior research on influenza viruses suggest that nasal mucosa T-cells may explain the rising number of "positive" PCR

Charles Holmes

CharlesBHolmes

Americans are getting a crash course in novel therapies for #COVID19. This is a hotly debated topic, even among physicians. As we saw with hydroxychloroquine, the decisions Trump/his docs make

The Seeker

TheSeeker268

It’s been more than 2 years since the world learned of the novel coronavirus outbreak, but the most important questions about its origin are still unanswered. So here is a

June Shannon

juneshannon

The @WHO has issued new advice on the use of masks in communities, during home care, and in health care settings in areas that have reported cases of COVID-19- it

Kashif N Chaudhry

KashifMD

Thread on Chloroquine & its historic use against viruses. For those who are not familiar, in vitro means outside the body i.e. in a lab setting, as opposed to in

Simon Roux

simroux_virus

It's Friday evening, I've my red wine, and we just got a new pre-print out, which means it's thread time \o/ Disclaimer: this thread doesn't contain any Covid-19 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.01.020958v1 @jgi

Rich

RickRoseland

Today, I had a very long twitter conversation with an anti-vaxxer and I finally understand why they think your DNA gets 'changed' by the vaccines.They've put 2 and 2 together,

Phil Kerpen

kerpen

Large study from Scotland finds exposure to children is protective for adults.They looked at 300,000 NHS workers in Scotland.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.21.20196428v1 Conclusion: Increased household exposure to young chi

Alex Dalassio

ADalassio

Ritual mask wearing. Part 2. The ignored posts.https://twitter.com/ADalassio/status/1321952748343054339?s=19 That’s also why our figurehead leaders are ostensibly refusing to “mask up”: We are the one’s being gagged, not them. The

Doktor Zoom

DoktorZoom

So I'm watching this livestream of Ammon Bundy's Branch Covidian Easter Jamboree, in Emmett, Idaho. Wayne Hoffman of Idaho Freedom Foundation just explained that stay at home orders are satanic,

HKU Medicine

hkumed

Q: Are higher temperatures more likely to cause loss of infectivity in #SARS_COV_2?A: The team at @hkumed incubated the virus and observed how long it would take for it to

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JVoluntaryist

The smallest thing that we can see with a 'light' microscope is about 500 nanometers. A nanometer is one-billionth (that's 1,000,000,000th) of a meter. So the smallest thing that you