#Viruses

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

I guess it’s about time that I disclose that I, too, am resigning. Not from anything in particular. But just generally sort of resigning. This has been a long time

The Tale of Onora

TaleOfOnora

The Wuhan Wiggle is a SighOp. Viruses are not as described. To the wicked, everything serves as pretext. Is there cause and effect? Yes. But so few can identify or

Remy

designtheforce

what's been easy for me during these times is following the rules...I can now work from home so aside a grocery run or an errand run for my elderly parents,

Sarah

sass_byname

Why is nobody talking about viral interference? (Infection with one virus can interfere with the ability of another virus to infect a host at the same time, providing temporary protection).

Matt Ridley

mattwridley

Thread on the origin on the virus.Many media outlets including the @thesundaytimes are speculating about whether the virus leaked from the Institute of Virology in Wuhan (WIV). Please note this

Hilary Abernathay. Some #Covid19 & #Nexit for all?

atatimelikethis

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing...is wrong. Dunning Kruger is far worse.Donald Trump has declared a plan sure to worsen #Covid_19. This time though he affects the world as

Distant socialite 🍁

lulon

Some good readings on CV19 from this past week#covid19Canada1. How South Korea Flattened the Curvehttps://nyti.ms/3aeD35c 2. This one is a very good summary and easy read on CV19 from a

internetperson

interne41914499

*10,000 view celebratory thread*The May-June 2020 iterations of this article were the first to link coronaviruses from the Mojiang mineshaft to documented activity at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Rapid Antigen tests are very sensitive at Ct < 30 Above which-too little live virus to detectPpl worry transmission could occur at Ct > 30 and thus missed by Ag

Bryan C Mounce

bryancmounce

Marion (@MarionGraham20) leaves the lab after successfully defending her MS thesis, and graduating this year is a bit... anticlimactic.To counter that, I want to celebrate the great things that Marion

Moreno Colaiacovo

emmecola

Some "conspiracists" always get it right!Conspiracist, January 2020: "#RaTG13 virus looks like BtCoV/4991 described in an old paper that you didn't cite!" Average scientist, January 2020: Shi Zhengli, July 2020:

Robert Colvile

rcolvile

SOME PERSONAL NEWS: Last year, I lost my wife Andrea to a liver disease called autoimmune hepatitis. It’s one of those conditions that’s rare enough to be significantly underfunded, but

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Oh shit. Finally a study is out rigorously quantifying #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #coronavirus in stool. Bad news...there's infectious virus in there. So fecal transmission is possible, but is it happening in

Carl Lonsdale

CarltheChippy

1/ THESIS: For unknown reasons, Shi Zhengli (famous "Bat Woman" of the Wuhan Institute of Virology) has obfuscated the connection between SARS-2’s nearest known relative, RaBtCoV/4991 aka RaTG13, and her

Ted Gioia

tedgioia

(1/8) Today, I’m writing an obituary of a friend. You don’t know him—he isn’t well-known (but with some luck he might have been). What I’m writing isn’t for a periodical

Annie

Anniefromkansas

@MSNBC @NicolleDWallace @AriMelber @chrislhayes @maddow1)Today’s WH Coronavirus presser it was stated that hospitals could use for PPE for Coronavirus cloth hospital gowns which can be sterilized and reused. Do any