#Efficacy

Luke Klipp 🏳️‍🌈

lukehklipp

Paul Koretz is not my councilmember, but yesterday he killed a transformational project - #UpliftMelrose - that would have saved lives. Koretz rationalized this action with a series of justifications

Eric Escobar

eresc79

Exponential growth of #COVID19BC cases in recent weeks continues. 1/ The growth in cases started in Fraser and is now spreading to Vancouver. 2/ More concerning is the expansion of

el gato malo

boriquagato

one of the key questions today is "does social distancing work to stop covid deaths?"i've done a lot of work on this in recent months.the answer looks to be an

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

So you may have heard concerns about the mink variant of #SARSCoV2 that was discovered in Denmark and is leading to the decision to cull all farmed minks in the

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

2015: "To examine the emergence potential (the potential to infect humans) of circulating bat CoVs, we built a chimeric virus encoding a novel, zoonotic CoV spike protein -from the RsSHC014-CoV sequence that was isolat

Holly Witteman, PhD

hwitteman

The #colcorona preprint was posted last week. I was busy in a review panel so this is coming a bit later, but here’s my take, as a scientist who has

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

FANTASTIC NEWS—A potential vaccine for multiple sclerosis is now within sight on the horizon! And it’s an mRNA vaccine by BioNTech, maker of the Pfizer #COVID19 vaccine. Study in mice

el gato malo

boriquagato

among all the rain dance efficacy claims about masks and lockdown and demands to "do something" one glaring fact remains about covid-19: it is primarily a regional and seasonal virus

Rebekah Honce

RRHonce

We’re living in two pandemics:1. COVID192. COVID19 conspiraciesScience can be confusing (even if you are a scientist!) and it doesn’t help that scientific facts about our current situation are matched

John Walton 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺

thatjohn

Incredible news to hear about the 90% efficacity of the Pfizer/BioNTech trial COVID-19 vaccine — but be cautious. These are very early results, but there is hope they will carry

Jordan Strom, MD, MSc, FACC, FASE

DocStrom

#Tweetorial below: I'm pleased to announce the publication of our study in @JournalASEcho (https://bit.ly/35oyWUl ), led by Coco Fraiche. Credit to co-authors Warren Manning, Sherif Nagueh, @michaelleemain, and Larry Markson. 2/

Forrest Fleischman

ForrestFleisch1

@reddmonitor has a great post summarizing a number of recent articles about "plant for the planet," which raise a host of interesting questions about the potential for tree planting &

Wezi Sendama

wezisendama

I've got a new paper about using the computer to find drugs that might stop coronavirus entering cells in the lab. I should stress that that's very, *very* far removed

Arush Lal

Arush_Lal

THREAD: The @WhiteHouse National Strategy for COVID-19 Response & Pandemic Preparedness was just released. And there's a LOT to unpack.For starters, the comprehensive plan spans 7 goals & 12 Executive

Deepta Bhattacharya

deeptabhattacha

This article is not too bad in the grand scheme of things, but I admit I had a visceral reaction to the headline--'Not this again!' h/t @KurtadikarKetan. There are important

Calling Bullshit

callin_bull

In science, people tend to be most interested in positive results — a manipulation changes what you are measuring, two groups differ in meaningful ways, a drug treatment works, that

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