#Viruses

Malcolm Fle✘

Malcolm_fleX48

A lot of the talk of new strains of "Covid-19" tend to be quite overblown. I'm not saying that its impossible or that there isn't a new strain, but the

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

Given that the US has not detected SARS-CoV-2 variant viruses 501Y.V1 or 501Y.V2, what bounds can we place on their current frequency in the US based on sample counts? 1/12https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1341446447045087232

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

Reading this WSJ headline, there is an important clarification: SARS CoV-2 and its variants are here to stay. But if we vaccinate 80% of the population, which is totally doable,

Divia Eden

diviacaroline

QTing my reply so I can thread some thoughts I keep having about the relationship between contagiousness and severity of diseases. I have no background in any of this and

Dr. Sweta Chakraborty

swetac

I'm a risk and behavioral scientist. I assess threats related to pandemics, food scarcity, over-population, and climate change. Here's what we're not talking about enough: the frequency of global pandemics

Barton

Barton_options

1/13 My most optimistic take so far:COVID is just common cold, but sadly we are ALL pre-Columbian native Americans. disclaimer: everything below is entirely theoretical (i.e. speculative). no medical advice.

Kyle Lamb

kylamb8

Reminder what the "experts" had to say about the science of masking from ~March/April. A thread-1-Dr. Fauci A veritable feast from former CDC director Tom Friedman, written the first week

Mike Roscoe

mikeroscoe101

How to create a plandemic.1. Embrace a faulty maths model. The one that predicted 300k deaths in SA, 500k in UK and 2.2M deaths USA.2. Publish pics of sick people

Obsidian Geek

JohnTembo1982

A quick thread on COVID-19 diagnostics available now and what a negative or positive test result means in reference to the different tests being conducted to detect COVID-19. First definitions

Marion Koopmans

MarionKoopmans

So finally: why did we do the PCR design this way? Because it was January 6th, we were hearing of a new SARS like virus, and there were no samples,

Gertrud Rey PhD (Trudy)

GertrudRey

Are viruses alive? The short answer is still no.In this month's blog post I take a break from coronaviruses to talk about giant viruses and their apparent potential to produce

Eric

IAmTheActualET

Tired of seeing the same flawed #COVID19 Kansas mask study being shared as proof of "masks working", so I used similar methods + the same dataset and tracked what happened

Dr. Richard Corsi

CorsIAQ

1/ Thanks, Linsey. I have some concerns about public anxiety regarding HVAC systems & recirculation. First, it is just not feasible for many across North America to have supply air

Nicolas Vabret

neoviral

A few thoughts about this preprint claiming that SARS-COV-2 is reverse-transcribed into human genome (1/7)https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.12.422516v1 The human/viral chimeric reads that the authors detect in RNAseq dataset d

Laurie Garrett

Laurie_Garrett

Detailed assessment of the new UK #SARSCoV2 variant by @WHO scientific team: https://www.who.int/csr/don/21-december-2020-sars-cov2-variant-united-kingdom/en/Key points in thread. 2/ The @WHO takes a global view:"One of the mutations i

Kaitlin Deutsch

KaitlinDeutsch

In the current COVID climate, we are acutely aware of how emerging diseases can dramatically shape our world. For @EntSoc #PollinatorHealthDay, I wanted to share how insect pollinators are ALSO

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