#Coronaviruses

Melissa Chen

MsMelChen

This is interesting. If true, it might explain why there are so few deaths and cases in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos despite many connections to Wuhan.These countries are next to

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

ITALY: CONFIRMED BY ITALIAN HEALTH SERVICE: False positives to Covid19 test as diagnosis are 95%. Legal cases started against testing under charges of fraud to procure public funding, false alarm,

Pajamas It Is

HeckofaLiberal

THREAD: There’s a lot to unwrap here. Basically in 2003 during the SARS outbreak there was a elder home in British Columbia which had an outbreak of a coronavirus. 1/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2095096/

Governor JB Pritzker

GovPritzker

With the @US_FDA releasing its analysis of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine ahead of the December 10th meeting, today I want to directly address those of you who may be hesitant to

Linda Holt

LHolt99

Short thread on current crisisMuch government is about arse-covering. Across UK govs are panicking about NHS not coping & rising +ive tests. Locking down distracts, very expensively, from 5 key

Maajid أبو عمّار

MaajidNawaz

Can we all wake up to reality yet please “There’s just more evidence & as more evidence arrives the case for accidental lab leak, in my view, increases”@JamieMetzl, @WHO advisor,

Sarah Zhang

sarahzhang

I wrote about how all the signs are pointing to herd immunity against COVID-19 becoming impossible. This is how the pandemic ends instead—because yes, it can still end. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/02/herd-immunity-migh

Shane Crotty

profshanecrotty

1/ Recently, major media outlets in the US and France have mischaracterized our COVID-19 T cell findings. We have now published a summary of current knowledge to correct this.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-020-0389-z 2/

Gertrud Rey PhD (Trudy)

GertrudRey

Do memory T cells induced by seasonal coronavirus infection protect us from SARS-CoV-2 infection and/or disease? I attempt to answer this question in this thread. Also at virology blog. (1/n)

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

First, some background. RNA viruses all evolve extremely rapidly, but some like influenza are able to accept mutations to their surface proteins in such a way that they can partially

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

It looks like the universe will not let me have a day off.@Nature just released an Addendum on the WIV's first paper about COVID, explaining what's up with RaTG13, the

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Short thread:Cases are starting to plummet quickly. This isn’t from vaccines (yet). Possible we may be starting see a combination of seasonality on our side and likely seeing herd effects

Jen Heemstra

jenheemstra

As scientists race toward a vaccine for Covid-19, you may be wondering how it’s going to be possible to develop an effective vaccine for this virus when the flu shot

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

I am going to make time later today to please write out the history of measles to this group as I think it will be illustrative. We do not test

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

With #COVID19 vaccine efficacy of ~95%, I'm looking forward to vaccine distribution in 2021 bringing the pandemic under control. However, I'm concerned that we'll see antigenic drift of SARS-CoV-2 and

Sam Parker 🇺🇲

SamParkerSenate

1. "At C(ycle)t(hreshold) = 35, the value we used to report a positive result for PCR,

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