#Preprints

A Quick Thread On 'Transparency Tactics'Remember when Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca published (some) of their phase 3 trial protocols to great acclaim?https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/health/covid-moderna-vaccine.html That was
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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
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Since everyone seems to have lost their damn minds over the "more tweets = more citations" paper, and I'm moderately qualified to talk about it, I thought I'd share a
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COVID Q1. “I’m concerned the vaccines aren’t safe because they were rushed!” This is a pretty reasonable concern. I mean, if they cut corners, then how can we really know
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Our paper on evaluating the first three months of the NHS COVID-19 app is out now as a pre-print. A 1/nhttps://github.com/BDI-pathogens/covid-19_instant_tracing/blob/master/Epidemiological_Impact_of_the_NHS_COVID_19_App_Public_Release_V1.p
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We had two preprints out last week. They might seem unrelated, but have lots to do with each other. In this thread I will outline the results and what they
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Detailed thread on best science on efficacy of masks. Please read, comment and follow if you learned something.Unfortunately the data show that Masks don’t work. I wish they did. I
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The Tide is Turning, MY Friends!1/x Essential ReadingBotao Xiao & Lei Xiao“Possible origins of 2091-nCoV coronavirus,”https://img-prod.tgcom24.mediaset.it/images/2020/02/16/114720192-5eb8307f-017c-4075-a697-348628da0204.pdf.Coronavi
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Ok. Time for a Captain Dan thread on a useful and timely subject. Let’s address this “Masks don’t work” argument that people are making. Lots of misinformation and disinformation are
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When it comes to wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) for #COVID surveillance, people ask the same question: How come it hasn’t been used before? Well, it has been. Here are a few
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Post holiday, having digested some sites+preprints from last week, I'd like to give my perspective on COVID. Context: I am a genomics + biological data science expert; for most other
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What I have learned from COVID19:[Thread] 1. Public health is undervalued, underfunded, neglected, mistreated, and it is easy to get away with that for years, decades, but someday that ends
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"Problems with Evidence Assessment in COVID-19 Health Policy Impact Evaluation (PEACHPIE): A systematic strength of methods review" is finally available as a pre-print!https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.21.21250243THREAD! One of the
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My #thread summary of this new paper: ‘Face Masks Against COVID-19: An Evidence Review’ @Ldnontmayor @st3v3turn3r @ElizabethPeloza @MohamedMOSalih @shawnwlewis @jesse_helmer @MaureenPCassidy @JoshMorganLDN @AnnaHopkins11 @ArielkeK @Heal
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Good morning! Today I'll be talking about #MassSpectrometry and how scientists use this method to look examine changes to huge numbers of the #proteins in your #cells to identify how
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1) "More and more licensed, postdoctoral and habilitated scientists contradict what we are told by the authorities and the mass media about the alleged corona pandemic. These are experienced experts
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