#SarsCOV2

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Press conference on what @WHO-convened mission to investigate the origins of #SARSCoV2 found on their China trip is about to start in Wuhan.(Was originally supposed to start an hour ago

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Epic success of UK vs failure of US to sequence for new mutated #SARSCoV2 strains—look how many sheer virus samples were collected & sequenced in the last 30 days. Not

Eric Topol

EricTopol

What is we were immunoassay-guided for who to give vaccines, whether the vaccine was effective, when 1 dose was enough?Just now, 10 days after my 2nd dose vaccine, I had

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

NEW—BioNTech founder—“The vaccine contains >1270 amino acids, & only 9 of them changed—so 99% of the [spike] protein is still same”, says Şahin. He also points out #SARSCoV2 vaccine’s immune

Ewan Colman

ewancolman

New preprint with @RowlandKao @researcherjess and @GavrilAmadea! We estimate the proportion of #SARSCoV2 infections in England that get diagnosed with a positive test (1/13) ...https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.09.21251411v1 H

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Science asked me to -briefly- reflect on what happened in 2020. So, a thread on this year in science, the breakthroughs and breakdowns and where my head is at at

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

I‘m struck that it still hasn’t sunk in how much #b117 may change the course of this pandemic.The initial shock about it being more transmissible seems to have worn off.

Dr. Shahzad Faisal Chaudhary

ShahzadFaisalMD

Do you still think that #Coronavirus #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 would ever go away like all the other viruses. Flu vaccine has already been proven to be ineffective in reducing mortality. You

Laurie Garrett

Laurie_Garrett

ATTN: After easing lockdowns amid Holidays, PM #BorisJohnson today put much of the UK on strict lockdown: no Xmas, no NYsEve. In a mere week the number of #COVID19 cases

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

A NEW HOPE: 27x more effective than Remdesivir against #COVID19 in lab study –Aplidin is a drug derived from a marine sea squirt found only in waters off island

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Comparing #COVID19 infection fatality rates (IFRs) of #SARSCoV2 with influenza can be problematic. As the piece below touches on, the IFR estimates for seasonal influenza are very poor. Though, another

Catherine Gao-Howard

CatGaoHow

1/# Excited to share our #NUCOVIDInvestigators work looking at #BAL in intubated #COVID19 patients with @NM_lung @RoganAGrant @MichaelCuttica @luisamnMD @nufeinbergmed @NU_IntMed@BavishiAvni @jarnold93 @ScottBudinger @bsinger007 & Rich

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Does neuroinvasion of the brain by #SARSCoV2 happen? Not just in mice, but in *humans*? The clear answer in this study is yes — both demonstrated with human brain cells

Jonas Heymann

HeymannJonas

My first thread: the promise by @POTUS re: #vaccines reminds me that this month marks 20 years since the death of my great uncle, Joseph Melnick, below (dead center) among

Katarina Braun

KATarinambraun

Preprint Using viral sequencing + some epi data, we show that a majority #SARSCoV2 infections in healthcare workers at our institution occur in the community and can only rarely be

Dr. Lynora Saxinger 🇨🇦

AntibioticDoc

Just had a super lovely exchange in an online COVID physician group with a colleague thanking and checking in on some of us with heavy COVID responsibilities (both formal roles

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