#Virus

Nick Pavlou

eastnitty

We’re in a dangerous situation where the gvt and opposition parties want to open schools next week despite rising cases and knowing full well that schools were the main driver

Ed MD

notdred

It’s a mistake to frame the Trump rally as a virus bomb about to happen. There might very well be little or no evidence of spread from this event. What’s

Rachel "The Doc" Bitecofer 📈🔭🍌

RachelBitecofer

1. Here is a GREAT analysis out from the most talented female political scientist in the entire country @vavreck & Christopher Warsaw in @UpshotNYT that shows that COVID deaths correlate

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

Beda M Stadler is the former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern, a biologist and professor emeritus: "So much testing, that has created so much

John Hayward

Doc_0

The double standard for coronavirus restrictions - dancing in the streets for Biden is fine but you can't have a funeral for your mom, the elite can get haircuts and

Tim Lacy

t_lacy

I've been in #HigherEd since 2000 in some kind of staff, faculty, or admin position, and this thread correlates strongly with my sense of its overall economic environment and trends.

Peter Zeihan

PeterZeihan

Less a COVID update, more a COVID context lesson:1) When a location gets above ~200 new cases / million / day, the virus has become endemic. Rooting it out requires

Hensley Lab

SCOTTeHENSLEY

There has been recent discussion of how this influenza virus mouse study that I completed as a postdoc potentially relates to current SARS-CoV-2 evolution, so I thought I would write

A.R. (Actually Republic) Moxon

JuliusGoat

VIRUS Let me give you a hypothetical scenario.Imagine, as best as you can, that there's a virus.To help your imaginations, I'll describe this virus. Let’s suppose it’s a novel new

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

Sorry to break it to you, but current lab testing (PCR) for coronavirus is meaningless:https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1249869530849034240 "In China, generally, they diagnose ‘Corona’ with CT scans and one or two positive P

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

So much focus on sensitivity of the test. As though all tests must match up to PCRBut could focusing so much on achieving the greatest molecular sensitivity for asymptomatic testing

Ottawa Public Health

OttawaHealth

Ottawa, can we talk about these rising case #'s?Yes, there is cause for concern. If we don't get a handle on this, it could undermine all the work we’ve done.

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

'For a vaccine to work, our immune system needs to be stimulated to produce a neutralizing antibody, as opposed to a non-neutralizing antibody.'https://wp.me/pccWMe-25 'In some viruses, if a person harbors

Mudasir Nazar ☪

NashateSania

I can hear the nonsense buzzing of no-to-qurbani-this-eid around. In a bid to pose as thoughtful & intellectual, some guys end up sounding stupid.That Kashmiri-style-cooking-kills-the-virus science we were told by

Jason Furman

jasonfurman

What reduces economic activity: (i) the virus leading people to choose to distance or (ii) government required distancing.Research on services in March/April has found it is much more (i) than

Mark Horsley

MarkHorsleyUK

THREAD : ALARM BELLS RINGING Some really worrying developments have taken place this week across Europe and in the UK. However the mainstream media don’t seem to be giving it

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