#Virus

Rupa Marya, MD

DrRupaMarya

Covid shows just how capitalism requires desperation. Instead of pumping money directly to the working class so we could take care of ourselves, money went to giant industries, with no

Louise Kenny

louiseckenny

As an academic clinician in O&G I try to stay in my lane & comment on #covid only when highlighting my expert colleagues’ work. But for folk like @allisonpearson platforming

#IfScientistsAndThePeopleTrustedGovernment

CaribeWellness

Know Your COVID Tests; Don't Get DupedThere are different types of tests for COVID. - PCR (this tests for the genes of the virus. Very similar to looking for DNA

Steve Deace

SteveDeaceShow

Little birdies tell me barring a miracle college football is not happening and financial apocalypse is coming. I’m told virus is the excuse, but it’s really university presidents afraid of

Neeltje van Doremalen

DrNeeltje

Manuscript Alert!! Thread. In our latest manuscript, we look at the efficacy of intranasal vaccination with the Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccine, in both hamsters and rhesus macaques:https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.09.426058v1.art

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Please allow me to go back to this question of "do vaccines prevent transmission?". What do vaccines do? Stimulate antibody (from B cells) and T cell responses (not often measured)

Kate Taylor

katetaylornyt

There seems to be a lot of confusion around the question of whether you can resume normal activities when you are vaccinated and why that still involves some risk. In

PadorMute

Mute14_

I will say, if things go down a certain path (which most people will hate), Nintendo might have just singlehandedly killed everything about social distancing...as if it honestly existed to

Mark Schneider

subschneider

1. The Nuclear case for wearing masks. In the nuclear industry we are used to managing radiation exposure and we can apply the same principles from that to COVID-19. 2.

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

ImportantThis virus is not happening in a vacuum where no information existed previouslyOn Immunity, On testing, On serology, On transmission, On masks, On treatments...We must stop this narrative that we

el gato malo

boriquagato

how to spot a PCR-tifact in the data:all cause deaths in sweden not following reported covid deaths.recall: sweden counts all deaths within 30 days of a +PCR test as a

Jordan Schachtel

JordanSchachtel

Just about every country in the northern hemisphere that is considered a COVID-19 "success story" has 1 or both of these common factors:1) They don't have high obesity %.2) No

tawanda chivese

TChivese

A quick word on the Sinopharm vaccine from China - seeing as there is so much debate on the TL The Sinopharm vaccine is made from a killed COVID-19 virus.

WIRED UK

WiredUK

In each warm body it infects, the virus behind Covid-19 has the potential to change. Most of those changes are slow and inconsequential. But, in some people, the virus hits

Ruminda H. Gunaratne

Rumindahg

#Immunity & #VaccinesWill try to explain with #GIF'sWhat is Immunity?Your Immune system will attack anything unfamiliar. This could be bacteria, virus, fungus or anything it identifies as foreignWhen #coronavirus AKA

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Here we are, astonishingly, at the first #JobsDay of 2021. As we are all taking stock of where things stand in our democracy, it’s a moment to also take stock

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