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Marion Koopmans
MarionKoopmans
So finally: why did we do the PCR design this way? Because it was January 6th, we were hearing of a new SARS like virus, and there were no samples,
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Ryan McNamara 🧬
Ryan_Mac_Phd
Been seeing a lot of miscommunication and misinformation on the conflation between virus infection and disease state. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19. You can't have COVID-19 without becoming
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BHIVA
BritishHIVAssoc
Please see our guidance co-written with @THTorguk regarding SARS-CoV-2 vaccination for adults living with HIV. https://www.bhiva.org/SARS-CoV-2-vaccine-advice-for-adults-living-with-HIVAnd the plain English version is here: https://www.bhiv
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Kamogelo
lawseed
Guys don't panic about the SARS assessment text. I did a thread on this beginning of July & even detailed the docs you need to keep.Remember SARS said they will
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Keitumetse Lekaba
Keitulekaba
1/ Personal Income Tax: A thread for Entertainers. Dear Entertainers, there's a trend where you are always owing the tax man & I want to help U understand why. (This thread doesnt
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Kia☆
alt_kia
thinking about how the WHO openly admits they came up with the name "COVID-19" specifically in order to obfuscate the fact that this virus is the 2.0 version of SARS
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Jase Gehring
JaseGehring
Eric's generally pretty great, but this is clearly wrong and the wrong way to consider this problem. A more useful calculation would be number of 30kb genomes within, say, 5%
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Ryan McNamara 🧬
Ryan_Mac_Phd
Virus fragments can exert pathogenic effects inside a host, but that's distinct from being infectious.To be infectious, a virus particle must be intact. This includes the virus genome and the
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John West 🕯💙
JohnWest_JAWS
There is a whole load of misinformation out there on what a virus is - and I don't know enough about them.So I asked a virologist - a thread:"Live virus
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Alina Chan
Ayjchan
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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Jane Qiu
janeqiuchina
HOT from the press @NatureMicrobiol: SARS-CoV-2 is likely to have diverged from the most closely related bat viruses 40–70 years ago. The findings suggest that the lineage giving rise to
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Dr. Ali Nouri
AliNouriPhD
1) It's official: research that found infectious SARS-CoV-2 in air samples has been peer-reviewed: "significant environmental contamination in rooms where patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 are housed and cared for, regardless
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Phil Kerpen
kerpen
NATURE: "We tested 690 respiratory samples from the 129 patients for the presence of infectious virus using cell culture and determined the viral RNA load with RT-qPCR (Fig. 1). Infectious
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Andrew💙Croxford
andrew_croxford
Finishing up: It occurs to me that this confusion is the consequence of simple terminology. What does it mean to be ‘immune’?/ɪˈmjuːn/ - adj – «Having a high degree of
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Peter Daszak
PeterDaszak
More details on likely evolutionary timescales behind bat-to-human COVID emergence. Interesting work from @robertson_lab @UofGlasgow @CVRinfo suggests 1) SARS2-lineage bat-CoVs have been circulating for few decades (in bats!).....https://ww
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Ryan McNamara 🧬
Ryan_Mac_Phd
Virus Latency, what is it and what does it mean?Been seeing miscommunication about SARS-CoV-2 and latency, so here's a brief thread on what "latent" or "latency" means in virus infection.Viruses
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