#Viruses

(2/12)I will follow societal rules if they are coherent + I understand the logic behind why they have been put in place.E.g. Stopping at a red light seems a sensible
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https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.26.20080911v3.full.pdfThe operational false positive rate of the widely used PCR test is so large that ALL the mass testing data since June should be flushed. Think of cities & areas
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Sepehri and Fioranelli strike again. See my previous comments on PubPeer: https://pubpeer.com/search?q=alireza+sepehri https://twitter.com/Reviewer__2/status/1286003761320611842 They have published several papers on electromagnetic waves an
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Something to consider as you read about the big Venus news today: there is an unfortunate disconnect between what we do as scientists and how "science" is communicated to everyone.
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Article states that two “gain of function” flu projects (unnamed) were also given waivers, along with the 5 MERS projects - wouldn’t this have been with Fauci’s approval?“Moratorium on risky
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THREAD. Today I attended a great webinar from @WHWB15 on COVID-19, aerosols &’schools feat two of the most respected scientists in this area - @j_g_allen from @HarvardChanSPH & Au’s own
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Online today in #MGen : How we can use transcriptomic data to reveal new temperate phage biology https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/mgen/10.1099/mgen.0.000330 This started with a simple idea and became a nice proof of
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Non medical friends, let’s have a chat about masks. So, you’ve bought yourself a box of N95 masks and you think you’re good for #COVID19. Let me tell you what
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I’m starting a thread on #COVID19 just to keep everything I learn about it in one place. New information well summarized information Things that changed my mind
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Reviewers (rightly) asked for more information about the origin/passaging history of the virus we’re using— Coxsackievirus B3 strain H3 (derived from CVB3 strain Nancy). Sounds boring, but the answer is
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The pandemic playbook, assembled by a whole host of international experts, specifically says that the Federal Government is responsible for:- finding emerging novel viruses in China and Africa- working directly
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As somebody who studies the political effects of apocalyptic narratives and events, I've had some trouble collecting my thoughts on #coronavirus, because it's so damn complicated. Plus, I can only
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Starting a thread summarizing Coronavirus research.Disclaimer: I am not an epidemeologist and studies are being produced very quickly and on often sketchy and problematic data. I will try my best
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0/ Thread on how mass-media-induced fear of COVID irrationally transformed our priors.I have talked a lot about the mass hysteria that was created...https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1239995212572876802?s=20This thread gets more at th
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Your declaration of a State of Emergency for the COVID-19 diagnosis criteria for a series of pneumonia and influenza related symptoms and the allegations of the existence of a “novel
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There's a paper out in PNAS that features a number of evolutionary psychology speculations about SARS-CoV-2. Some of my friends are coauthors, so I apologize in advance to them, but
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