#Infectious

Mike Barnkob

mikebarnkob

CD8+ T cells play an important role in clearing respiratory virus. I looked at 10 preprints from @biorxivpreprint and @medrxivpreprint all exploring T cell responses to #SARS2/#COVID19. In no particular

Liz Crash

AsFarce

you guys know about the Hendra virus right? it’s a bat disease named for the suburb of Brisbane where it was first discovered in humans. mostly white men and look,

Nick Wallace

NickWallaceDC

H.R. 2347, the Strengthening the Vaccines for Children Program Act of 2021, would be a HUGE win for kids. This bipartisan legislation introduced by @RepKimSchrier @RepJohnJoyce @GKButterfield @RepMcKinley would improve

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

I'm puzzled about the timing here. It's not clear to me that both POTUS and FLOTUS would be testing positive 48 hours after exposure. Prior exposure? Others infected? https://www.npr.org/2020/10/01/919344239/trump-adviser-hope-hicks

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/health/22whoop.htmlDoes this ring any bells?It’s a now-classic ‘PCR false positive pseudo epidemic’.Different infectious organism (a gram-negative bacterium) & disease (whooping cough) but all th

Danny Boy

Care2much18

The last 72 hours testing has produced 1,895 positives.In the same period, 1,459 cases were announced.So you might wonder what is going on with the difference of 436. I don't

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

About frequent rapid testing and the TRUMP White House:I agree with ppl that the WH cluster f%^* is a shining example of how throwing caution to the wind in response

Susan Mitchell

susmitchellSBP

Much talk of schools. This is what experts at Bloomberg’s School of Health at John Hopkins Univ say about reopening schools, in the MOST comprehensive report yet analysing the key

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

AIRBORNE: It is airborne. Top aerosol expert Dr Prather comes out strong: “I have to say something cuz this could actually protect people”...What airborne transmission means is that: 6 feet

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

This thread is valuable for a *lot* of reasons in its own right. I am going to use it as an eg of the importance of sampling and genomic epidemiology

Hair AVRIL

HairAvril

I followed Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing early on since he was a nutritionist and was expecting him to give tips on how to help your immune system during these trying times.

Dr. Richard Corsi

CorsIAQ

1/ The rebreathed fraction of air is the fraction of air that one inhales that came out of the collective respiratory systems of others in an indoor space. If a

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Shit—Trump FDA has frozen US’s Phase 3 trial of the Oxford vaccine! Trial is paused because of “political pressure”. Dr. Larry Bush, trial's principal investigator, said Trump FDA is looking

Jennifer Cabrera

jhaskinscabrera

Public health agencies track a lot of reportable diseases. They have databases, they collect test results, and they do contact tracing.PCR tests were deliberately set to detect tiny amounts of

TheSignOfFive

TheSignOfFive

OK, the dust of politics slowly retreats and for you my homies, the science nerds, the travel geeks, for you, I have a thread.I'll lay the background so the book

Farzad Mostashari

Farzad_MD

1/ We have heard about a number of potential breakthroughs for COVID response- large scale/cheap testing, immune therapy, vaccine progress. But when it comes to "getting eyes on the outbreak"