#PCRS

The Unsilent Majority

TheUnsilentMaj3

1. China never isolated the virus. They cloned RNA from lung fluid.2. PCRs do not diagnose specific viruses. 3. “Cases” are just PCRs run at cycles high enough to magnify

Elysabeth Grace aka Dr. Margo J Hendricks

Elysabethgrace

This is a difficult but necessary thread to write. I’m writing as Margo Hendricks and as Elysabeth Grace so there is no mistake about its author or the communities involved.

Christian Angermayer

C_Angermayer

What’s happening in the #UK right now is further evidence of the lack of scientific leadership from ANY country during the #pandemic. We're gathering samples and doing PCRs of millions

JOSE GEFAELL

ChGefaell

Since the beginning of the pandemic, this is the script that has been applied with Goebbelian rigor in some countries:Growth is exponentialThe lethality is very highThe immune response is not

Nipun Darshana

Nipun_Da

An incident which demonstrates how the systemic racism works towards minorities in this country. A Muslim in Galle who had a renal failure has died while he was undergoing dialysis

Anupam Pande MD, MPH

tallyardstick

Another testing deficiency that is seriously hampering the US pandemic response and no one is talking about: THE WEEKEND PROBLEM. A thread... 1/ I recently tried to get my son

Katherine J. Wu, Ph.D.

KatherineJWu

Rapid tests are already being used to screen people without symptoms for the coronavirus — even though they're not cleared for this purpose, and the data in asymptomatics is sparse.Some of

Ghaith Aljayyoussi

PKghaith

Very disappointing reporting by @NickTriggle et al again from the BBC. An article that makes a number of bogus claims without caring to reference any of them.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55757790A thread [1/8] The

Enrique López-Mañas

eenriquelopez

I just moved to Vietnam, and it is not a surprise that they have completely smashed COVID (just 1.300 cases). Entering the country has been a completely different experience. First:

Matthew Bennett

matthewbennett

"The Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.""...the new variant increases the Reproduction or

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MackayIM

I know the technical PCR nerdery is hard for the general public. I feel this whenever I read a hardcore immunology paper!A few thoughts on the concerns about PCR...PCR threshold

Colm MacCárthaigh

colmmacc

Friday morning tweet thread: some more depth and detail on AWS Nitro Enclaves, the trusted execution environment / confidential computing platform which we launched last week. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/nitro-enclaves/ . Let's div

Max Roser

MaxCRoser

As we show in our testing data, many countries in Africa do not test widely.I think this could mean that the COVID death toll on the African continent is substantially

Jace #KBF

SmallStocksJay

"Does not raise an arguable question of law"We are restricting what the healthy do on unproven science.Asymptomatic transmission was the basis for the lock up! Something that is based on

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MackayIM

What is a PCR cycle? We sciencey types throw in words that we use for a specific purpose, but which also have other everyday meanings among most of the people

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

NEW—A single dose of Oxford-AstraZeneca #COVID19 vaccine provided strong protection in trials after the first 22 days: 76% efficacy (days 22-90). Also, when 2nd shot were delayed by >3 months:

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