#Viral

Thinking fast and slow

ElleMandell

Very interesting study regarding kids, flu vaccine & covid, and also viral interference -- covid "outcompeting the flu." 1/4: "Researchers looked at medical records of 905 children who tested positive

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

THREADData from Birmingham garnered LOTs of negative press about #COVID19 rapid Ag tests The data 1) is very small, 8 positives2) Shows EXACTLY what we expect, Rapid Ag tests detect

Andrew💙Croxford

andrew_croxford

One aspect of testing that I’m interested in (but absolutely no expert) is the correlation between +ve qPCR, and subsequent viral culture. The idea being that if you test +ve

Andrew💙Croxford

andrew_croxford

".. while measured neutralising antibody titres generated by vaccination with ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine are lower for the B.1.1.7 lineage, clinical efficacy of the vaccine against symptomatic COVID disease is similar

Faheem Younus, MD

FaheemYounus

COVID Myth-busting Thread: Too many myths floating around. Here’s part 2.1/10: Avoid shipped packages/gas pumps/shopping carts/ATMs or you’ll die.Wrong. Coronavirus surface survival is one thing; that surface causing an infection

Marianna Spring

mariannaspring

This week there’s been a worrying escalation in abuse I receive. I’ve also been compiling some of my most impactful reporting for an exciting award’s entry! Here are those highlights

👩🏻 K. 何凯丽

k_wuttt

A log of dispatches from various counties in Florida Fire Rescue, Fire, and EMS via Scanner Radio: a thread Polk County, FL EMS @ 18:40 - Patient with hypoxiaEMS @

Bloom Lab

jbloom_lab

Our study mapping #SARSCoV2 mutations that escape key therapeutic monoclonal antibodies is out in @ScienceMagazine. The study also shows that some of these escape mutations arise in a persistently infected

bearistotle

gnrosenberg

I think most liberals right now are distraught because there wasn't a huge sweeping victory and a slim victory will not only mean bad political outcomes but it will also

hal 👾

halhod

Making lots of vaccine as fast as possible is now the most important bottleneck on ending the pandemic. I wrote about how the manufacturing ecosystems for different techs (mRNA, viral

Joe Pompliano

JoePompliano

I gained over 12,000 followers in my first month using Twitter by following 6 simple principles.You can easily do it too.Time for a thread 1) Pick a clear topic,

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

“Surgeons wear masks, so you should too.” 1/ Surgeons wear masks so that bodily fluids — which always have bacteria even if a surgeon is asymptomatic — won’t go into

Nicolas Vabret

neoviral

A few thoughts about this preprint claiming that SARS-COV-2 is reverse-transcribed into human genome (1/7)https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.12.422516v1 The human/viral chimeric reads that the authors detect in RNAseq dataset d

Kainaz Amaria

kainazamaria

Okay, ever since @johnedwinmason made the case for @kathphoto’s photograph of Dana Clark being pic of the year (https://twitter.com/johnedwinmason/status/1340722455564922880?s=21) I’ve been making the argument in my head for this to

Don Moynihan

donmoyn

The President and other senior Republicans are making relatively vague allegations about fraud and lack of transparency, telling people to get angry. But they haven't offered evidence and their specific

Dr. Urso

richardursomd

Covid vax has similar parts to human proteins. When one receives the vaccine, Covid exposure may cause massive cytokine storm.Pathogenic priming likely contributes to serious and critical illness and mortality

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