#Spike

Anthony Costello

globalhlthtwit

Modellers believe that spreading out our limited supply of vaccine as single doses for 3 months will save up to 6000 lives. One concern though is whether single doses might

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

Graphs like the ones below scare me. I can't see how one can spin this as anything other than a disaster in the making. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html People often complain that I'm

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

No evidence Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine affects women’s fertility - Full Fact“This claim has no basis. The spike protein on the Covid-19 virus and a protein that makes up the placenta

Geoff Burns

geoffreyburns

With all the renewed chatter about spikes and shoes, I'd like to proposition running journalists and media outlets:Stop saying "carbon-fiber plated shoes/spikes"Some more accurate alternatives: super shoes (my favorite), next-

Jeff (BPredict)

BPredict

I've had a few followers ask me my thoughts on the Sturgis study. It's gone viral because it tells a story the media likes ("bad" people got COVID for doing

Tristan Croll

CrollTristan

In all cryo-EM maps of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein density for the N-terminal domain has been really rubbishy, with modelling only really possible based on somewhat-weak homology to the original

Eric Topol

EricTopol

What is we were immunoassay-guided for who to give vaccines, whether the vaccine was effective, when 1 dose was enough?Just now, 10 days after my 2nd dose vaccine, I had

Bloom Lab

jbloom_lab

In new work, we show a human coronavirus evolves to escape neutralization by antibody immunity (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.17.423313v1). Specifically, we studied the historical evolution of the common-cold CoV-229E to l

Pajamas It Is

HeckofaLiberal

Keep in mind this was likely here FAR before March. My son’s ped. agrees they had it in January 2020, he said lots of kids coming in with flu like

Oliver Johnson

BristOliver

A lot of people have been asking how we have managed to get R below 1 (and in fact comparable to first lockdown levels?), given that we have the new

Shane Crotty

profshanecrotty

1. I am convinced that the new "UK variant" of SARS-CoV-2 (B.1.1.7) is a big problem. I look forward to seeing more epidemiology by more labs (not my area), but

el gato malo

boriquagato

one of the big questions on covid right now is "did we hit herd immunity or is this just seasonality?"i think we have, in most places, hit herd immunity and

KizzyPhD

KizzyPhD

Here is the context: you are going to read and hear about a million and one variant viruses, because viruses mutate by nature. It’s scary, I know. But, a couple

Lucy van Dorp

LucyvanDorp

There are reports coming out in the Danish media of novel mutations emerging in #SARSCoV2 in #mink https://tinyurl.com/y5gbwype SARS-CoV-2 can infect multiple mammalian carnivores and has now been detected in

Dashiell Shapiro

DashiellShapiro

Did Democrats in blue counties steal the 2020 election? As a #YangGang member I wanted to see if #math might help to answer this question. So I looked at red

Ash🇺🇲

GlaringSkeptic

A lot of people ask questions about the Schumann Resonance so I have compiled some information to help. Please R/T Most of us have seen these graphs popping up on

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