#Viruses

el gato malo

boriquagato

come on panic patrol, you can do better than this. just how desperate have these people become to remain in the spotlight and keep us all terrified?i'm not even going

Ryan Horath

therealrthorat

"We create our own reality...We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."An example of this genre: this tweet claiming the linked video

Geoffrey Ingersoll

GPIngersoll

Here is what we know and what we don’t:1. We know the virus came from bats.2. We don’t know how it jumped from bats to humans, the missing link3. We

Nicola Oliver | Medical Intelligence

NicolaMedical

THREADSocial distancing measures have not only reduced transmission of SARS-CoV-2, but also of the flu as seen here in this remarkable chart. Note the absence of any ‘spike’ in the

Andrew Rambaut 🦠🧬🌲🔮🤦‍♂️

arambaut

By naming 'a variant' we are flagging it as being of concern even if it probably isn't (relative to other circulating lineages). Back in April proposed a lineage naming system

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

I'm a bit puzzled that some still deny the concept of 'herd immunity' despite the incoming vaccines. Please let me state this one more time, there's nothing political about herd

Principal Scientific Adviser, Govt. of India

PrinSciAdvGoI

1/n “..There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has

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Spartan_Rage_

Dr. Anthony Fauci while working as head of the National institute of allergy and infectious diseases in the Obama administration oversaw gain of function research until @BarackObama banned it. 1/7

Greg Jenner

greg_jenner

Now, hear me out, I may not *seem* like a virologist, but what about - instead of vaccinating the entire population - we just vaccinate the virus, right? Catch it

Anderson Brito

AndersonBrito_

The amino acid deletion ∆69/70 has been used as a proxy for detecting viruses from B.1.1.7 ('UK variant'). The same marker has been used in the US, but we caution

The Good Statistician

TheGoodStatsMan

A few people have asked about comparing flu cases with covid cases and the impact of the PCR test.Short answer...the PCR test 'exaggerates' the problem of covid.It is unusual to

Ayekooto

DeeOneAyekooto

Head of Infectious Diseases Clinic, University of Maryland,USA says: 1. We may have to live with C19 for months or years. Don't deny or panic. Don't make your life a

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

Our research group at @fredhutch, @UWMedicine and @BrotmanBaty has sequenced the viral genomes of two SARS-CoV-2 infections that were connected to the White House #COVID19 outbreak. The @nytimes reports here:

Dr. Literature_Lady 💌📚📜🎙

Literature_Lady

Be careful of fear-mongering headlines. Folks who study RNA viruses are not surprised that it mutated, because that is what they do. But you shouldn't panic. It doesn't mean our

Marc Veldhoen

Marc_Veld

A lot of news regarding a SARS-CoV-2 mutation. This is an important, but not unexpected. SARS-CoV-2 is a single stranded RNA virus, it will mutate.But, this mutation is not one

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

Just became aware of an article from May interviewing experts to debunk lab scenarios for SARS-CoV-2 origins (it was cited in an Atlantic article published today). I'm going to work

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