#Sars

52 Days China and the Pandemic 26/12/19A technician in a private lab in China sequenced a sample from a patient & said it was a bat-SARS like virus.Wuhan Gov &
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There are good political/social reasons for wanting SARS-CoV-2 to have entered humans directly from animals, and many pushing the WIV lab accident hypothesis have nefarious intent. I am nonetheless surprised
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Know very tempting to feel nervous about variants. Please don't: 1) RNA viruses do mutate and those more fit spread more readily; 2) SARS-CoV-2 has much lower mutational rate than
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Pls read #SARSCoV2 immunology& subthreads for what media & β€œexperts” are not telling youFacts-we have some pre-existing cross-protective immunity-basing herd immunity only on antibodies omits strong Tcell immunity-vaccine candid
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There is great concern about the potential spread of the new #SARSCoV2 variant (B.1.1.7) outside the UK. How many cases do we have to expect in Switzerland and will they
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Canada - Covid-19 still presents a risk primarily to the elderly, not to children and hardly to working-age adults. Canada - The average age of a death by or with
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Based on this aiming to re-open in April would be a good planhttps://twitter.com/DarranMarshall/status/1360592609492754433 Re-opening slowly and cautiously in pace with cases, hospital burden and vaccination, with some restrictions in place
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"If you don't plan to leave this country, you're foolish".First reality, there is NO WAY 150million people will emigrate a country, and sadly, your family is part of that 150mil.We
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Lab-origin theory is a gathering of "overzealous activists, self-appointed detectives, unqualified writers, and politically motivated conspiracy theorists." Still this thread author goes on to say it's possible sars-cov-2 is a
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The @SwissScience_TF proposes to halve confirmed #SARSCoV2 cases every two weeks to reach less than 500 cases in January. What does this mean regarding the reproduction number? A thread about
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Teamwork... This ought to rattle some cages...1) RaTG13 is incapable of binding to a bat or a pangolin (no binding observed), and is less than 1/1000 the affinity to humans
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SWEDEN & UNITED KINGDOM, SARS-CoV-2AN ANALYSIS & DISCUSSION (v1.1):Despite claims to the contrary the data are clear:The outcomes for both countries have been remarkably similar.This has happened in spite of
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Big update posted last night by @PHE_uk on the new UK variant of #SARS-CoV-2 (aka B.1.1.7 or VOC 202012/01), including first solid evidence that it does not cause more severe
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There is a lot of hubbub about RNA vaccines & I'm an RNA biologist RNA is the message made from DNA that tells our body what proteins the cell should
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There's something really illogical about the school = mental health link. If going to school with other children is necessary for mental health, why is home schooling legal, for instance?
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57/M completed Pfizer COVID vaccine 4 weeks ago. He now goes to a commercial lab to get serologic COVID testing (test detects nucleocapsid IgG). His test comes back positive. He
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