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It looks like the universe will not let me have a day off.@Nature just released an Addendum on the WIV's first paper about COVID, explaining what's up with RaTG13, the
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@washingtonpost Opinion article by their editorial board."there are troubling questions in China that must be examined, including whether the coronavirus was inadvertently spread in an accident or spill from the
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Will do a thread today explaining the different types of covid tests, how they work, and what this means for false positives/negatives.https://fortune.com/2020/11/13/elon-musk-covid-test-tweets/ The first thing is to see what this
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Maybe @WHO forgot, but in 2004, the intermediate host of SARS was found within a week of diagnosing an index patient. When you know what to look for, it doesn't
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On the topic of controversial SARS2 mutations. I've been delaying a thread on D614G because I think people watching US elections do not have the emotional/mental bandwidth to deal with
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On the question of how mink outbreaks can impact vaccines, antibody therapeutics, or diagnostics. How realistic is this concern?The idea is that SARS2 spreading and adapting in large populations of
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Get ready. This is going to be an important thread. Election season will be over soon and hopefully more people will devote some attention to this...I'm going to walk through
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One question that many people ask me is "how likely is a lab escape vs natural origins of SARS2?"And everyone complains when I refuse to give some kind of probability
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tldr RaTG13, the virus most closely related to SARS-CoV-2 was discovered by the WIV in a bat cave in 2013 where 6 miners contracted a viral infection leading to severe
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Quote: WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual press briefing on Friday that the UN agency was continuing "to establish the origins of the virus to prevent future outbreaks."https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/fi
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So frustrating for scientists to find that data regarding SARS2 natural origins cannot be accessed. Today, we discovered that the Natural Insertions paper published on June 8 in @CurrentBiology doesn't
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Second wave in Vietnam, Australia, China, Japan, and news of more cases in other Asian countries.“Vietnam is evacuating 80,000 people, mostly local tourists, from the central city of Danang after
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