#VIRUS

Ferris Jabr

ferrisjabr

For @NYTmag I wrote about the possible origins of the new coronavirus, the profound links between ecological disturbance and disease outbreaks, and why zoonoses do not so much leap as

Jackie Friman 🇸🇪

jackiefriman_

Breaking down the virus myth Viruses are NOT what we have been taught I usually don’t like to give anything related to covid any of my attention and energy but

💧Janine Hendry

janine_hendry

If you see me wearing a mask in public and in the stores, I want you to know that... I'm educated enough to know that I could be asymptomatic and

Jennifer Harris

jwharris

I spent far longer than I would have liked today trying to rebut a few friends and family who, as cases skyrocket, have entered the “we have to get on

David Elfstrom

DavidElfstrom

New preprint from J Lednicky & al: Isolation of SCV2 from air in a car driven by a COVID patient with mild illness. (Jan 15 2021).While virus detected at all

President-Elect Dr RollerGator PhD

drrollergator

So, it's Friday night. We made it another week in this madness.I'm usually the type to assume I have it better than others. When I experience hardship I am usually

Fabien_L

Fabien_L

Et si le Covid19 fonctionnait comme… les autres Coronas virus ?Dit comme ça ça semblerait la solution la plus logique sauf que depuis 6 mois c’est celle qui est la

Dasha Burns

DashaBurns

THREAD: I just spent 3 days with frontline workers at hospitals in a part of Appalachia where hospitalizations have more than doubled in the last month. But hospital staff say

Dylan Morris

dylanhmorris

Strong agree. Linking a couple examples in the replies.https://twitter.com/ArisKatzourakis/status/1351917274396057600 We often discuss challenges for flu vaccination posed by antigenic evolution. But those aren't the only challenges:htt

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

We previously analysed recurrent #SARSCoV2 mutations for an association with increased transmission using ~47k genomes. At the time, we found no evidence for any mutation making the virus intrinsically more

Moreno Colaiacovo

emmecola

Some "conspiracists" always get it right!Conspiracist, January 2020: "#RaTG13 virus looks like BtCoV/4991 described in an old paper that you didn't cite!" Average scientist, January 2020: Shi Zhengli, July 2020:

Sam Bowman

s8mb

Toby misrepresents this paper. It doesn't look at the effects of lockdowns, it looks at the *pandemic*.The paper says (a) the economic effects are NOT only due to lockdown and

Nick the Wink

nickTheWink

I've seen some comments stating that during the peak we were detecting less than 10% of Covid cases, but now we're more like 60-75% ...Which means our current rate of

Mike Buckley

mdbuckley

We're all used to the fact that @BorisJohnson has failed utterly to handle the pandemic, but some stats still shock. Here's mine today - China has recorded 3 deaths per

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

(1/12) Study of #SARSCoV2 transmission by children. 12 children infected in childcare transmitted the virus to at least 12 of 46 (26%) contacts at home or in the community. One

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

Not sure what’s happened at WHO but I strongly recommend you don’t let any A-level biology students see this lot of chuff. It’s factually wrong in numerous ways. The phrase

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