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Dr. Angela Rasmussen
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Hard agree. And if this is useful, let me share something that often gets omitted (not by @kakape).Variants always emerge, & are not good or bad, but expected. The challenge
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And investigating zoonotic origins can take decades, and you may NEVER find the "smoking bat" or whatever other intermediate species that may be involved. It's like looking for a needle
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While we can't rule out a laboratory origin for the COVID-19 pandemic, the evidence to date suggests zoonotic emergence. Objective investigations have been derailed by politics and conspiracy theories. I
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This is a must-read article by @mlipsitch and @kesvelt and I strongly agree with the central points: we urgently need to step up genomic surveillance & get transmission down now
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We shouldn’t be talking about plunging ahead with new vaccine dosing schemes without data when we’ve already got schedules that work well, esp when we can’t distribute the supplies we
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Nice of @NYMag to give @nicholsonbaker8 a 5000 word marketing package for his most recent nonfiction book...which is partly about lab accidents in the 1950s.https://twitter.com/NYMag/status/1346083776594636804 "I hadn’t interviewed s
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Viruses don’t evolve to get around masks, distancing, or disruption of the virus particle by detergents or disinfectants. Mutation doesn’t defy the laws of physics. B.1.1.7 is transmitted the same
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A very small sample size, but Dr. MacCannell shows 2 important findings here: 1. B.1.1.7 variant may not be very common in the US and 2. PCR is not a
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Very frustrating to see Dr. Dean's work getting attacked from all sides: completely unqualified pundits like Lahren & Martin as well as scientists with no experience in epi or meta-analyses
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Infectious dose is a possible explanation but I don’t think it’s a very likely one, for a couple reasons. The most important being that identical twins are not genetically identical!https://twitter.com/drzoehyde/status/13431181490722447
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With global spread, national border closures seem like a pretty facile solution to hypothetical more infectious variants that haven’t emerged yet or been imported. Int’l travel isn’t a selection pressure
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Hard to underscore the importance of this beautiful study by @eguia_rachel and colleagues (see @jbloom_lab's great thread).The bottom line is that coronavirus "reinfections" don't occur b/c we don't mount durable
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