#Viruses

Erik Angner

ErikAngner

One point that the pandemic has brought home to me is just how narrow people's expertise is. I'm regularly surprised by how a celebrated professor of X can exhibit a

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

tldr RaTG13, the virus most closely related to SARS-CoV-2 was discovered by the WIV in a bat cave in 2013 where 6 miners contracted a viral infection leading to severe

Off With All Masks

KarenKFolques

Masks, once accepted, will be here forever. Even after the ChiVi is gone, vanished, dead...YOU will still be heavily encouraged, if not still mandated, to wear them. Tam and Fauci

anarchist jurisdiction (they/them)

acabforacutie

Okay! We have new information! Good news and bad news. Good news is that no strain of coronavirus is immune to the vaccine, and both Moderna and Pfizer have announced

Mr. Pepe (T cell evolved) 🐸

realCOVID19_

Daily reminder:— Coronavirus main host is a bat— Bats are not found in Wuhan/Hubei region— Bats would have been hibernating around time of the outbreak— COVID19 is extremely susceptible to

Maxx Chatsko

7MaxxChatsko

Will we need to make new coronavirus vaccines each year? Will it change "just like the flu"? Probably not. Coronaviruses and influenzas are very different in how they infect human

RealScientists | Counts

realscientists

[Tweet by @BatsForLife] Today I'd like to start by talking about a topic that has received more attention recently: bats & diseases. [A thread] [Tweet by @BatsForLife] Do bats carry

Patrick K A Kearns

kearnsneuro

Short vaccine : mRNA vaccines (Pfizer vs Moderna) *are very different to* Adenovirus virus vector vaccines (Oxford AZ and Johnson&Johnson). This will matter a lot.Dosing schedule of one, should not

Sahara

saharainvesting

THREAD: Long Maxcyte (MXCT LN)If it ain't broke don't fix it. Maxcyte is another AIM-to-NASDAQ relisting.Exciting area with very little competition, 90% gross margins and 20-30% growth in core business.Would

Liz Szabo

LizSzabo

What's the scoop on coronavirus vaccines? Follow this thread and read our story to get the essentials. 1/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fauci-optimistic-about-covid-19-vaccines-though-immunity-unknowns-complicate-development

Kevin R McCarthy

mccarthy_kr

Sharing this story. What a way to kick things off with @PittCVR How does a virus with a proofreading polymerase rapidly evolve? In the case of SARS-CoV-2 we believe that

Matthew J. Peterson

docMJP

I hate that what pseuds figured out was most likely with basic internet research in a week early last year can only now be validated b/c NY Mag published an

Donald Welsh

DonaldWelsh16

Too many in our public health community have spent the last year ignoring history and ground level reality, and embracing anodyne theory and jibberish models. Below is a small snapshot

Adam squires

adsquires

The new COVID variant and how we should behave to be safe. tl;dr: it hasn't acquired resistance to anything; soap, distancing, masks and fresh air all still work; but we

Eric Topol

EricTopol

If you want to know about #SARSCoV2 as it started and where it is going, you talk to @edwardcholmes, a leading evolutionary virologist @Sydney_Unihttps://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/943251 @Medscape video and transcripta /1

Against Everyone With Conner Habib

ConnerHabib

1Brief thread on disease:There are, unfortunately, many spiritual people dedicated to saying germs & viruses don’t cause disease.While I agree that the Western medical model is reductive, I also think

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