#Coronaviruses

Hydroxychloroquine Works #HCQworks

_JulietJohnson

MORE CASESTests have been found to be inaccurate and show a high false positive rate.More tests being done than before. More tests gives more 'postives'.Also winter flu season has started

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

NEW: We know children rarely get sick from the coronavirus. A new study shows that they make a less diverse and weaker set of antibodies than adults do, suggesting that

Jo Pellereau 👩🏼‍🔬

PhysicsJo

Professor Andrew Pollard of the Oxford Vaccine Group @OxfordVacGroup speaking to the @theASE #ASEConf2021 this morning. Starting with an overview of the history of the virus. Seems like a lifetime

Irti Kazr

IrtiKazr

My #Covid_19 projections for #Pakistan : We have passed the peak, Total Deaths by the end of this wave ~7000, Total actual infections ~35 Million, but total recorded infections may

WIRED UK

WiredUK

In each warm body it infects, the virus behind Covid-19 has the potential to change. Most of those changes are slow and inconsequential. But, in some people, the virus hits

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

I don't think that this study by Basavaraju et al from @CDCgov can be taken as evidence that #COVID19 was circulating in the US in December 2019. 1/10https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa1785/6012472 The auth

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

TAXI & TRANSIT RISK—We know #SARSCoV2 is airborne. But how survivable inside a car?Well, study now reports a car driven 15 minutes by a mildly infected #COVID19 driver (no

Mary Beth Miotto MD MPH

MAhealthforkids

Cant wait to dig into the original research on children’s antibodies to #coronavirus potentially protecting them against #COVID19 . Any friends on #epitwitter or #MedTwitter have thoughts on it? #Pediatrics

Eric Topol

EricTopol

When we don't measure important stuff.A thread about the immune response to #SARSCoV21. Since serology/IgG can be readily measured, this is what is conventionally used to assess an individual's responseThat's

Greg

greg_scott84

What Does "Testing +" Mean?1) PCR tests cannot distinguish between an infectious virus and non-infectious nucleic acid (viral remnants). You could have caught something, beaten it, and still "tested positive"

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

Let’s talk about the fact that both the attack rate and the death rate among the young is indeed very low with COVID19, unlike most prior pandemics. And let’s speculate

Bachman

ElonBachman

1\ What follows is a thread summarizing what we know about COVID-19Others more knowledgeable than I will continue to hash out the details, but at this point the data speaks

FactsDontLie

FactsdontL

A resume on virusesFirstly, a bacterium is a single-celled 'germ'. However, a virus is not even classified as being a cell. It consists of a strand of RNA (ribo-nucleic acid

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

Nobody wanted to see a repeat of the spring, with hospitalisations rising and stringent measures coming back in. But UK isn't in quite the same position as March, so here

Josh - Data Analyst in Nashville

ifihadastick

There is an incredibly stupid and and anti-science myth that is circulating around- that there is no immunity post-infection to Covid. Here's a few papers I've read and the summary

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patricksavalle

1/ On 23 jan @c_drosten et al published their paper describing the de facto industry standard protocol for detection of #SARSCoV2 by PCRNow an intl. team of top experts asks

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