#Spike

Lauring Lab

LauringLab

Been thinking more about this piece from @kakape this morning and have some thoughts to share. So thought I'd do a Xmas eve thread about SARS-CoV-2/COVID19 and immunocompromised hosts. (1/x)https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/uk-var

Vanderbilt Dept. of Health Policy

VUHealthPol

#COVID-19 in #Tennessee: TN leads the U.S. in cases reported per population this week. This is very serious but raises an important question: How should we interpret the latest numbers?

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

Right. Deep Breath. RT-PCR "false positives" and Ct numbers (again). tl;dr it is complex, but the RT-PCR testing systems deployed across the world are sound and the people who run

Adrian Madaro

adrianmadaro

4 months ago, I wrote about how East Boston had the highest COVID numbers in Boston. That hasn't changed.I said rates were 4x the MA average. That also hasn't changedExcept

Mary Margaret Olohan

MaryMargOlohan

Here's a thread of hypocrites breaking their own COVID rules. Happy Monday. DC Mayor Muriel Bowser says her trip to Biden's Delaware celebration was "essential" though Delaware is on DC's

Lionel Case

lionel_case

1/Thread : Vaccins à ARN, OGMs, CRISPR/Cas : si on mettait un peu d’ordre ?Aujourd’hui nous allons ranger notre boite à outils génétiques, pour bien différencier marteaux et tournevis.Objectif: on

Vineet Pandya

vineeetpandya

How mRNA therapeutics went from being an overlooked & underfunded idea to the strongest weapon in our arsenal to fight the virus. Dr. Karalin Karikó is one of the scientists

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

This new variant is making a lot of people REALLY nervous. Here’s why it should & shouldn’t. I’ll hit on infectivity, lethality, vaccine effectiveness, & some “what ifs”. Yes, it’s

Shane Crotty

profshanecrotty

The AstraZeneca/Oxford (AZ) COVID vaccine (ChAdOx) results in South Africa are concerning. * The AZ vaccine had 75% efficacy against mild COVID through October 2020.* But only 22% efficacy more

Gilad Isaacs

GiladIsaacs

Why should we be careful when talking about a “jobs bounce-back” in South Africa? - A THREAD. You don’t get better labour market economists in South Africa than the @NIDS_CRAM

Finder UK

findercomUK

~ a #threadThe Elon Effect: Elon Musk’s Twitter activity that boosted (or crashed) the value of stocks and crypto by $10 billion on average We’ve analysed seven times he’s flexed

Atomsk's Sanakan

AtomsksSanakan

1/JWanted to address some issues in the thread below from another immunologist. Should be a nice change-of-pace from dealing with obvious nonsense from disingenuous denialists.https://twitter.com/michaelmina_lab/status/1357344439673397249ht

Richard Jean So

RichardJeanSo

Hi friends, my new book REDLINING CULTURE dropped today @ColumbiaUP. The good folks at @lithub published an excerpt and I'm grateful to @nytopinion for letting me write about it last

❤Red❤

VehementRedhead

For those of you saying "If essential workers can work, teachers can work, and our kids need to be in school!" I get where you're coming from. I want you

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—new #COVID19 vaccine efficacy study from Israel concludes that Pfizer/BioNTech's jab is up to 85% effective after the first dose after 15 days to day 28—and even 75% including asymptomatic

Maryann Turner

MaryannCTurner

From UK lockdown to AU lockup (a thread)My London Uber driver comments that this is the first time he has been to the airport in three weeks. The closer we

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