#SARSCoV2

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

With all the breaking news on vaccines and variants I’ve barely had a chance to talk about this piece on microbes moving between humans and animals.I think it’s important for

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—Moderna just announced its experimental coronavirus vaccine is nearly 95% effective at preventing illness, including severe cases, in preliminary analysis. And of 11 observed severe cases, all were in the

Peter Tennant

PWGTennant

Every new strain that establishes itself in the population will initially appear to have a higher transmissability. If one of those gets lucky (by appearing in a capital city, under

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

WORRISOME & SERIOUS—You know how the world put travel bans against UK travel out of fear of the #B117 more contagious variant? Well, now, UK put travel ban from

Marc Lipsitch

mlipsitch

This week @US_FDA called for confirmed infection (+-symptoms) as a primary or secondary endpoint in #SARSCoV2 #vaccine trials. Last year @rebeccajk13 @Steve_Bellan Rui Wang and Matt HItchings we recently proposed

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE B.1.1.7 variant #SARSCoV2: Read these 4 key circled sentences from @CovidGenomicsUK on why the mutations are worrisome. Experts don’t think it will strongly affect vaccines, but some

Dr.Krutika Kuppalli

KrutikaKuppalli

I recognize that $22,200,000,000 a year to prevent a pandemic sounds astronomical, but honestly we should have been proactive and been doing this way before the #SARSCoV2 pandemic. We have

The Binder Lab

TheBinderLab

1/ Many discussions on #SARSCoV2 / #COVID19 are quite abstract and focus on infection routes and epidemiology. Further, we often get the question "Can you detect actual #Coronavirus at all,

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

COVID & BRAIN damage—half of patients report neurological symptoms, including headaches, confusion and delirium. A new study offers the first clear evidence that, in some people, the coronavirus invades brain

Bloom Lab

jbloom_lab

In this short thread, I am going to plot some experimental data in a way that provides perspective on concerns that #SARSCoV2 mutation E484K will completely abolish immunity. (Thanks @profshanecrotty

Dr. Ali Nouri

AliNouriPhD

Does #SARSCoV2 increase risk ofParkinson’s Disease (PD)? Recent reports documented PD onset following severe #COVID19 in a 35, 45, & 58 year old. They developed severe motor symptoms; brain imaging

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ TL:DR - @who published a massive review/meta-analysis of interventions for flu epidemics in 2019, found "moderate" evidence AGAINST using masks. (They actually missed the 2015 Vietnam study, yet another

Eric Topol

EricTopol

Today we learned ~1/3 Big Ten athletes who were #COVID19 + had abnormal heart MRIs, consistent w/ myocarditis, even those without symptoms. If anyone still is questioning whether this virus

BK Titanji #ILookLikeAScientist

Boghuma

Every year a vaccine is designed to protect against the 3 or 4 influenza viruses determined by surveillance as most likely to spread & cause illness during the upcoming flu

Maria Van Kerkhove

mvankerkhove

1/ Reflecting on 2020, I’m so thankful for scientific collaboration around the working to end this pandemicPls read on to see an example of an extraordinaryinternational expert network @WHO

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

"This is a moment for all of us to reflect on the toll the pandemic has taken, the progress we have made, the lessons we have learned and what we

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