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Sue Crengle
tiekemanu
Reasons why current COVID cluster might not be catastrophic failure...1: test has false negative rate so a person in managed isolation could have had asymptomatic infection and false neg test.
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Queen of Olives 🫒
OliveQueen1472
I don’t know a single ‘covid denier’ or anyone who doesn’t think this virus is real and kills There are people who believe it’s a real pandemic and others who
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Gertrud Rey PhD (Trudy)
GertrudRey
What does the word "eradicate" mean in the context of infectious disease? Short thread. (1/n) It means to completely eliminate an infectious agent or disease from the planet and it
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Ryan McNamara 🧬
Ryan_Mac_Phd
Virus fragments can exert pathogenic effects inside a host, but that's distinct from being infectious.To be infectious, a virus particle must be intact. This includes the virus genome and the
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Chris Hayes
chrislhayes
When you say the simple, established truth it sounds extreme, but it is what it is: The Trump administration has actively pursued policies to spread the virus, and dramatically increase
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Ryan McNamara 🧬
Ryan_Mac_Phd
Been seeing a lot of miscommunication and misinformation on the conflation between virus infection and disease state. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19. You can't have COVID-19 without becoming
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Dr Eric Levi, FRACS
DrEricLevi
Just to be clear,Many people are already infected and carrying the virus now, but they are not displaying any symptoms. Some will show very mild symptoms only. You may be
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Florian Krammer
florian_krammer
1) If we want to generate difficult viral escape mutants in the lab (e.g. for epitope mapping), we subject the virus to low antibody pressure and then slowly move up.
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Crystal moth
Prolapsarian
Another thread on COVID: It's astonishing how few people are talking about the disabling and debilitating after-effects of the virus. How many people will be disabled by it in the
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James Surowiecki
JamesSurowiecki
The odd thing about vaccine allocation is that from the perspective of stopping viral spread it probably makes sense to vaccinate younger ppl, who are more likely to be going
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John West 🕯💙
JohnWest_JAWS
There is a whole load of misinformation out there on what a virus is - and I don't know enough about them.So I asked a virologist - a thread:"Live virus
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Arieh Kovler
ariehkovler
A study by Clalit, Israel's largest HMO, shows a 33% drop in detectable Sars-CoV-2 virus by PCR in over-60s 14 days after their first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. Study
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Matthew Gertz
MattGertz
A Mount Rushmore of bad takes this year from the WSJ opinion section. How it started. How it's going. About 200,000 Americans died of COVID-19
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Christian Angermayer
C_Angermayer
What’s happening in the #UK right now is further evidence of the lack of scientific leadership from ANY country during the #pandemic. We're gathering samples and doing PCRs of millions
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🙂Klaus Schwab
ProKlausSchwab
Do these threads change anything?I have a friend & a sister who have good jobs & work home office but are incapable of altering their minds regardless of facts.I dedicate
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Yardley Yeadon
MichaelYeadon3
Those who found the concept of asymptomatic transmission suspect were right to be. Not saying it never happens. Am saying it’s implausible. Here’s why. To transmit, you need to have
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