#Sars2

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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Nothing strange happened in Wuhan but if you go around asking questions, you get tortured and thrown in prison for 4 years.https://twitter.com/williamyang120/status/1343459104623271937 Nothing to see at these mines in Yunnan
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Some have reached out to me to ask about the recent preprint by Institut Pasteur International Network on the SARS2-like bat virus that was found in North East Cambodia in
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1/ This is one of the most interesting pre-prints I have seen this past month. I consider this study in two parts.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.03.367391v1 2/ In the first part, Nussenzweig and colleagues
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Just became aware of an article from May interviewing experts to debunk lab scenarios for SARS-CoV-2 origins (it was cited in an Atlantic article published today). I'm going to work
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Summary of ‘Naturally mutated spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2 variants show 2 differential levels of cell entry’ preprint by Ozono et al., 2020. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.15.151779Disclaimer: This summary is shared as a first-time
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Not since HIV have viruses & bacteria been this ANGRY at a new member. They are so disgruntled by SARS2, they’re helping make vaccines against it. Pathogens are a Mafia-
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might fuck around and do a long detailed t-cell thread there's a lovely new paper that sheds a lot of light on CD8+ (aka killer/cytotoxic) T cells in COVID-19 and
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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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My colleagues & I are debating an issue with implications for funding covid R&D. Question is whether SARS2 will become ENDEMIC or whether it will be ERADICATED. This question has
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1/ Novavax UK first: ~90% protection again any symptomatic COVID-19. And that high level of protection was accomplished under conditions of very intense community transmission in the UK, which is
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Going to briefly discuss a new SARS-CoV-2 preprint by the FDA, whose senior author said "was intended to investigate something that could only have happened in a laboratory" according to
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Pandemic rages. Meanwhile scientists are fighting about what open data sharing means and whether you can publish analysis using someone's data if part of their dataset has not yet been
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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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i've seen a lot of people today talking about this preprint (even though i think it came out a month ago?), but i'd like to sound a note of caution...https://twitter.com/rfsquared/status/1285294047872135168
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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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