#Sars

Nick Hudson

NickHudsonCT

A positive PCR test does not mean you “have COVID”. PCR tests seek portions of the virus SARS-COV-2, not the disease COVID-19. If you’re asymptomatic, you do not have the

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

After ~10 months of relative quiescence we've started to see some striking evolution of SARS-CoV-2 with a repeated evolutionary pattern in the SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern emerging from the UK,

Amir Attaran

profamirattaran

Viral strains in the UK. See the orange bit which picks up in December and rapidly crowds out the competition?That strain is just getting going in Canada.We are going to

el gato malo

boriquagato

2 weeks to flatten the curvemasks will protect you and prevent lockdownswe just need to get to a vaccine and we'll be safethis is not going to end. they will

Sabine Hossenfelder

skdh

I still can't find evidence that the "faster spreading" UK COVID variant is actually spreading faster. Can someone point me towards the data? This is not a rhetorical question, any

Kevin McKernan 🙂

Kevin_McKernan

OK Koch heads... bring your hurt.I’m glad you folks exist as we need people questioning everything.However, I have found the “virus doesn’t exist” arguments unconvincing. The virus isn’t the only

Michael Story ⚓

MWStory

This BBC radio doc on Covid from January 23rd is a fascinating historical artefact. All the seeds of Spring 2020 assumptions are therehttps://twitter.com/surplustakes/status/1344564863771795456?s=19 > Academics advising Labour gov during

Edward Nirenberg

ENirenberg

There's a really dangerous misinformed claim going around relating to COVID-19 vaccines.A while ago there was a trendy idea that part of the hypercoagulability from COVID-19 was because of endothelialitis

Jose-Luis Jimenez

jljcolorado

1/ AIR CLEANERS: recommendations from the scientists of what to use and what to avoid 2/ More details about how to remove the virus from the air (best ventilation, otherwise

David Paton

cricketwyvern

Two things annoy me a little in the school debate. First, well-intentioned comments like "schools should be last to close & first to open".We never debate when supermarkets should close.

Thomas Dvorak

thomdvorak

Quick thread on one aspect of vaccination that currently doesn't quite make the headlines but is likely to become very important in the coming months - vaccine reluctance.This different from

Neeltje van Doremalen

DrNeeltje

Manuscript Alert!! Thread. In our latest manuscript, we look at the efficacy of intranasal vaccination with the Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccine, in both hamsters and rhesus macaques:https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.09.426058v1.art

Vinay Prasad MD MPH

VPrasadMDMPH

When Sars cov 2 is over, we will have to deal with the damage done to school kids-- disproportionately poor and minority kids deprived of school for months-- this damage

Nirav D. Shah

nirav_mainecdc

1/The @US_FDA just released its scientific analysis of the safety/efficacy of @pfizer's #COVID19 #vaccine candidate in advance of this week's advisory committee meeting. https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download 2/From the executive

bene_dicere

Bene09443296

Do asymptomatics/presymptomatics transmit #COVID19 disease? Let’s analyse the preprint systematic review including 19 studies focusing on TRULY asymptomatic/presymptomatic. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.01.20135194v2 1/n

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Seempleetoo

"They all developed anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and a significant T cell response detectable up to 69 days after symptom onset... Six out of eight contacts developed a SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell response

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