#Viruses

Faye Watson

fayewatson94

On this #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience I would like to take my year 10 science teacher who told me I wasn’t a good candidate for science A levels and raise you a BSc

Mac n’ Chise 🧬🧫🦠

sailorrooscout

It is important to point out that the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is effective against the B.1.1.7 variant and reduces virus shedding and transmission. With this most likely being the dominate strain,

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Listen up, folks. There's much good news. The end of this pandemic may be near. But a very harsh winter is upon us. Like other viruses, this one seems sharply

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

FANTASTIC NURSING HOME NEWS—Eli Lily’s monoclonal antibody drug can lower the risk symptomatic #COVID19 by 80% when used preventively among nursing home residents. Cuts risks overall by 57% among both

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

Lots of tweets about this today! Let's see what we can see in the focal S:E484 build!Phylogenetics (what I do - making 'family trees' from virus genetics) can be very

Dr Elizabeth Buchanan

BuchananLiz

#India's draft #Arctic Strategy (in a thread): pragmatic & not dissimilar from other AC observer strategies tabled but overbakes the notion of Delhi as a polar writ-large stakeholder which might

Emilia C Skirmuntt 🦇🧬🦠

ESkirmuntt

Let’s talk about vaccines and dosing again (another thread;) )There is a lot of talk at the moment about dosing and delays. First, it was the UK who decided to

Bella Rophon

FoolsMultiply

"The Lancet‘s fraudulent concealment of genetics, and its own conflicting interests, while condemning #coronavirus conspiracy theorists, gives the appearance of “crisis capitalism,” and complicity in the COVID-19-SARS/HIV-1 #Wuha

IMSureMan 🇨🇦 ⛷

sherwhizt

Longthread ahead.•Percent increase in active cases for young GREATLY EXCEEDS all higher ages•Above % incr. applies to virtually EVERY MONTH from May-Nov, not just school mo.•No clear evidence that teachers

facts&effects

EffectsFacts

0/17 Sweden. New series of weekly updated tables to track whether the increase in mortality this winter is in line with respiratory illness seasonality, or something extraordinary. So far (week

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

Everyday, headlines bombard us with the latest Covid-19 numbers. For the most part, these numbers are overwhelming, however the coronavirus numbers being reported daily are actually not facts. Confirmed cases,

Deepta Bhattacharya

deeptabhattacha

Tangent: this study estimates the natural inoculum at only a few thousand infectious viruses. https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/12/573/eabe2555 Other estimates using different methods have landed in the same ballpark. https://www.medrxiv.o

Giorgio Gilestro

giorgiogilestro

There are two issues with the English variant, as it is now referred. One issue is "what it could do" and the other issue is "what it could represent". They

Resist the Hologram - Stu Cvrk

STUinSD

Thread – The Virus, Prophylaxis, Therapeutics, and Vaccines1. When the ChiCom virus first broke out last spring, many Americans with experience in medicine, pharmacology, and related fields took personal initiative

Techni-Calli

Iwillleavenow

War Games was JUST ON Netflix, I swear, but now is not, so I guess I'm live-tweeting Johnny Mnemonic which looks tech-related and also horrible.Huzzah. I want to preface this

Eric Topol

EricTopol

Nature can be beautiful but also evil.It has brought us the worst pandemic in more than 100 years.What is it about #SARSCoV2 that makes it so nefarious? 1/ As compared

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