#Pathogen

Lina Leon

LinaMLion

If you need more anti-CRISPRs in your life, this is the paper for you! I worked on this study with a wonderful team: @AdairLBorges @jenzyy_97 @allysonparkk and @joeBondyDenomy. We discovered

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—Faced w/ new #SARSCoV2 mutation w/ "significantly faster" transmission rates, Boris Johnson tightened #COVID19 restrictions. Chief medical officer Chris Whitty said scientists consider this new strain to *move more

J.J. Sylvia IV, Ph.D

BigDataJJ

1/ I've been seeing a lot of discussion about studies that show transmission of COVID-19 does not occur as often from children to adults. This is being used to support

Joe Stanley

JoeWStanley

There’s a lot of talk around comparative / standards when it comes to #food and future #trade deals; but what do these differences mean in practice? [Thread, 1/10] EGGS

Emily Duggan, PhD

edugganphd

Excited to #Livetweet Dr. Keenan Walker's @KnowNeuropsych talk today on inflammation and immune functioning in #Alzheimers disease. Hope to see you all there! peripheral #inflammation is a likely contributor to

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

What is #herdimmunity threshold for #COVID19?A topic of much discussion due to large uncertainty & huge consequences for long term impact. New paper illustrates 1 key aspect that can reduce

mattparlmer 🌷

mattparlmer

One like one thing on my mind 1) I've lost a ton of respect for a ton of public intellectuals over the last few months, mainly for abusing their credentials

Dylan Morris

dylanhmorris

New preprint on how temperature and humidity affect the infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses. Key finding: the virus remains infectious longer at low temperatures and extreme relative humidities.https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.16.

David Fisman

DFisman

I keep getting asked about the possibility that sars-cov2 will be with us for a long time (many of the questions are driven, I think, by Chris Murray’s statement that

Alison Blunt

AlisonBlunt

1) 'On wafer-thin iceThe critics of the deliberate panic mongering do not pay enough attention to the fact that the pandemic narrative has no foundation regarding its scientific evidence.'Matthias Müller,

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

Some people are super confused about RaTG13, one of the most closely related viruses to SARS-CoV-2, because of how sparse/disjointed its descriptions have been in interviews and papers. I'll try

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

FACE SHIELDS NOT GREAT for #COVID19: Costco says wear “mask **or** face shield”—worrisome. Face shields don’t stop airborne aerosols.“Nearly all of aerosols were coming around the side of shield &

Alfredo Gomes

mindgomes

Care for Newbornshttps://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/caring-for-newborns.html “the extent and clinical significance of vertical transmission, which appears to be rare, is unclear”“For example, HIV can be a vertically transmi

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 135UCSF Medical Grand rounds today, available here https://tinyurl.com/y2tpw3h4 . If there could be such a thing as a “classic” set of topics in a pandemic that’s

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

There is a phenomenal amount of content to unpack in this astounding end-of-2020 @APNews article on the origins of SARS-CoV-2/covid. I spent the day thinking about how to go about

Corey Hardin

CoreyHardin2

1) A thread on our new paper with Lance Munn, Triantafyllos Stylianopoulos, @ankitbpatel7 Rakesh Jain and @MGHSteeleLabs “In Silico Dynamics of COVID-19 Phenotypes for Optimizing Clinical Management” (https://www.pnas.org/content/118/3/

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