#Viruses

Thomas Connors

ThomasConnors

15 Authors, labs including Wuhan & Dana Farber in Boston & Harvard in Cambridge. wtf, lots of people working on this the budget must have been in the millions, this

Malcolm Clark

TwisterFilm

A thread about COVID-19 and how to keep informed amid the confusion. Perhaps only one thing's been vaguer than the British govt's testing strategy and that's British press coverage of

el gato malo

boriquagato

a big part of the initial scare story on COV19 was "it's a zoonotic virus to which humans have no pre-existing resistance."it was never true.yet another study showing that over

Colin Brown

colinbro

Soap + water, or alcohol sanitiser rub, for #SarsCov2?A thread:These are alternative methods for different scenarios:Use soap for routine use (not surgical) with water & towels: it's betterhttps://twitter.com/PalliThordarson/status/1236549305

Jake Dunning

OutbreakJake

Rachel, as one of the experts who knows a lot about respiratory viruses, IPC/PPE and writes national guidance, I have no choice but to intervene, because you are wrong on

Prof Darrel Francis ☺ Mk CardioFellows Great Again

ProfDFrancis

What should you do when you see something that supports your beliefs? (H/T to @LCC_DrMalik ) Do you *think* wearing a facemask reduces transmission of Covid? Here is Iqbal's enquiry.

Sergei Millian 🇺🇸

SergeiMillian

Coronavirus may be killed within 48 hours: “Amid a barrage of research on finding treatment for new coronavirus, Australian scientists have found that a common anti-parasitic drug killed SARS-CoV-2 virus,

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

One of the things scientists do when facing an outbreak of a new disease is build 'phylogenies'. These estimate how pathogen isolates are related by comparing their genomes, and using

🌈Trevor_Pott(BLM, $hero_sandwich_2020, π);

cakeis_not_alie

Progress!https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/early-tests-of-vaccine-for-covid-19-pass-peer-review-look-promising/ This is the first vaccine candidate that I'm actually excited about: using an adenovirus to trigger an immune response

Starte Firer

Anonylyzer13

1of9 THREAD #HerdImmunity How to make ourselves healthierWill #CoronaVirus finally kill off anti-vaxxersStudies show unvaccinated children/adults have more robust immune systems, DO NOT get chronic illnesses, & DO NOT die

Edith Mirante

EdithMirante

1. This History Thread is about epidemics & pandemics + significant disease outbreaks in Burma (Myanmar.) Historical epidemiology incl. plague, smallpox, cholera, HIV/AIDS, influenza. Malaria not included as more endemic

Popular Science

PopSci

Welcome to PopSci’s weekly #COVID19 Twitter Q&A. We’re here to provide informed, measured answers to your questions about the global coronavirus pandemic. Reply below or use the #AskPopSci hashtag to

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Over the last weeks, a substantial amount of new evidence has become available about immunity to #SARSCoV2. This information can be difficult to process and integrate. As such I felt

Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician)

jeremyfaust

Q: Why have so many SARS-CoV-2 models failed?A: Failure to account for asymptomatic spread.My collaborators @biomathematicus+@JacobBAguilar are among the world's great minds on this.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.18.200

Secret SoSHHiety

SouledOutWorld

Corona Borealis is the Crown of the Serpent’s Head; Gnostics worship the Sun, Moon, Stars, Earth not the Creator. (Rom 1:25) Gnostics love myth;(Thread)https://twitter.com/SouledOutWorld/status/1249967756948262917 In myth Apollo (Apollyon; Rev 9:11

The Ferrari Lab

TheFerrariLab

Been reflecting on these slides from 2015 on the uncertainty of elimination - populations are rarely in a infection free regime – dynamics are described by “effective reproduction number” (R)