#Sars

Lucy Walker Lab UCL

LucyWalkerlab

It has been repeatedly argued that exposure to common cold viruses may protect children from #COVID19. A new study in @ImmunityCP now argues against a protective role for common cold

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

On the topic of controversial SARS2 mutations. I've been delaying a thread on D614G because I think people watching US elections do not have the emotional/mental bandwidth to deal with

Adam Hamdy

adamhamdy

1. Before becoming a writer, I worked as a strategy consultant in the medical industry. When the #COVID__19 pandemic started, I spent a lot of time listening to @WHO briefings.

Isaac Bogoch

BogochIsaac

1/ @nature asked over 100 scientists if they felt that #COVID19 was going to become endemic & circulate on earth for years to come. ~90% felt this was a likely

Shane Crotty

profshanecrotty

The AstraZeneca/Oxford (AZ) COVID vaccine (ChAdOx) results in South Africa are concerning. * The AZ vaccine had 75% efficacy against mild COVID through October 2020.* But only 22% efficacy more

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

In early 2020, a South African company, Conoché Bio-Tech approached the Medical Research Council MRC about a product - a castor oil extract - that could be used as a

Kaitlyn Sadtler, PhD

KSadtler

By July of 2020, 16.8 million people in the US had #COVID19 -- and didn’t know it. Read our pre-print @medrxivpreprint (1/13)https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.27.21250570v1 We called out for volunteers that never

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

As far as I know, the #SARSCoV2 variant identified by Hancock today is defined by a spike mutation at position 501 N->Y & a double-deletion at positions 69/70.You can see

Luke Hutchison

LH

The #Moderna and #Pfizer #COVID #vaccine numbers are not necessarily the solution to the #pandemic that the media are making them out to be. There are several important factors here

Ferris Jabr

ferrisjabr

For @NYTmag I wrote about the possible origins of the new coronavirus, the profound links between ecological disturbance and disease outbreaks, and why zoonoses do not so much leap as

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

***"The PCR test in the Corman-Drosten paper therefore contains neither a unique positive control nor a negative control to exclude the presence of other coronaviruses."*** "The protocol as described is

Andrew💙Croxford

andrew_croxford

NEW THREAD: «Recent endemic coronavirus infection is associated with less severe COVID-19» The thrust of the paper is that if you had previous exposure to endemic coronaviruses (eCoV) and catch

Dustin Poppendieck

Poppendieck

Why is the question we often fail to answer as scientists. We tend to focus on how. But the public wants/needs the answer to why. Here is an example on

Priya Sampathkumar

PSampathkumarMD

COVID vaccines. A primer. 1/Vaccines may be the solution to ending the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccines typically take several years to develop. But COVID vaccines are being developed at warp speed.

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

Are you quarantining correctly?For people that have been exposed to someone with known #covid19 or with symptoms and are awaiting a test result— you need to be quarantining *as if

Dr. Richard Corsi

CorsIAQ

1. Here is what I stopped doing in late Feb/early March: riding mass transit, going to restaurants, going to gym (canceled membership), going to dentist (I need a new crown).

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