#Viruses

Hutchinson Lab

CVRHutchinson

We’ve just had a paper published and I would like to tell you a story about people in science being nice to each other – a threadhttps://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30630-9 This is a

Tomas Pueyo

tomaspueyo

I introduce the "Scary Virus Paradox":"After clearing a threshold, the less deadly a virus is, the more it will kill." (Deadliness here defined as R0 * IFR)(log-log graph)This is obviously

Dr. Thomas Binder, MD

Thomas_Binder

1/10The seasonal flu wave is caused by several influenza and beta-corona viruses. This year, Corona-19 joined in. In the flu wave ends, due to herd immunity, in April. With

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Many discussions about #COVID19 boil down to wether the virus is 'just like the flu' or 'nothing like the flu'. As such, I felt it may be useful to provide

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD

PeterHotez

THREAD 1/5: I know this is not very nice just a couple of days before Christmas but I have to say I'm concerned about the CDC press release today, and

Dr. Kiki Sanford

drkiki

Are there new strains of the COVID-19 virus being talked about? Yes.Before you get concerned, let's clear a couple of things up... Viruses are made of genetic material - DNA

Mark

MarkV41345427

OUR ENTIRE TESTING METHODOLOGY IS FLAWED:Testing is being used to drive policy. Whilst PCR accurately detects RNA, it DOES NOT detect infectious individuals (proof below). PCR testing without clinical observations

David R Tomlinson 💙

DRTomlinsonEP

From Dan Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and SlowTHE ILLUSION OF VALIDITYp.221SPEAKING OF ILLUSORY SKILL“She is a hedgehog. She has a theory that explains everything, and it gives her the illusion that

Mentorshipzim

mentorshipzim

Lets talk about #COVID19 for the next 1 hour Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses which are found in both animals and humans. They cause illnesses from common cold

Jerome Adams

JeromeAdamsMD

1/ Some #SaturdayMorning #SaturdayThoughts on masks. Most people still don’t understand the term and concept of “asymptomatic spread” of #covid19, and why we now recommend that everyone who can,

Adam Hamdy

adamhamdy

1. I understand the economic pressure, but believe the UK government is opening up too soon. Lives will be lost as a result. It now falls to us to make

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Press conference on what @WHO-convened mission to investigate the origins of #SARSCoV2 found on their China trip is about to start in Wuhan.(Was originally supposed to start an hour ago

Hilary Abernathay. Some #Covid19 & #Nexit for all?

atatimelikethis

NEWS TRYING TO BE HUSHED UP Why the UK Could be the Source of the Next Pandemic https://bylinetimes.com/2020/11/16/why-the-uk-could-be-the-source-of-the-next-pandemic/ via @circleboom There's an additional and important point relating t

Kulvinder Kaur MD

dockaurG

How many of supposed "experts", journalists & partisans attempting to discredit powerful pre-existing cross-protective Tcell immunity & strong natural Tcell responses against #SARSCoV2 have actually published research re n

Caroline Coram

CarolineCoramUK

How was the biggest medical fraud of the millenium perpetrated? I have been mulling this over and firstly, I don't think it is the only medical fraud perpetrated. I BELIEVE

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

Viruses are hoody-wearing hackers, but SARS2 is hardly the cleverest. My votes go to HIV, rabies, and herpes. Here are top 10 virus hacks (each a reason I love virology

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