#Infection

Paul Checchia

ChecchiaPaul

Kids should be in school right now. (long thread)How is that for diving back into COVID post election?Ok, that’s a bold statement, but I thought I would put a flag

Adam Hunault

AdamHunault

“Bar Association” is one of the best DS9 episodes, and deserves to be remembered as one of Star Trek’s greatest allegory episodes. It’s amazing the way the story manages to

Mark

MarkV41345427

OUR ENTIRE TESTING METHODOLOGY IS FLAWED:Testing is being used to drive policy. Whilst PCR accurately detects RNA, it DOES NOT detect infectious individuals (proof below). PCR testing without clinical observations

Chris Kelly

ce_kelly

Maine and Vermont are now leading the country in infection rate (with New Hampshire not too far behind) :/https://covidactnow.org/share/6915/?redirectTo=%2Fcompare%2F6915&s=1318327 It's really crucial for VT to clamp this spike down

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

What’s the difference between vaccine efficacy and effectiveness, and what do vaccine makers mean when they say their therapies are “95% effective”?[Thread] Vaccine efficacy refers to the percentage change in

Dr. Monica Malta PhD (she/her)

MonicaMalta7

Recombination: A Covid Superpower?An immunocompromised patient held onto the same coronavirus infection for 154 days. When doctors sequenced the virus samples, they found MORE than 20 #COVID19 mutations, via @NPR

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

To save society from this virus, we need to focus on daily fast #COVID19 tests. These are more critical now than even vaccinesForget the headlines! These are not less accurate.

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

So, Joe Sonnabend who died today saved my life. He tried to save the life of my cousin Carl too and numerous other gay men in his practice in the

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 310What a joy watching Fauci's press conf. today. Last yr must have been torture for him, a brilliant man of great integrity. How liberating to

Raoul Pal

RaoulGMI

Take your politics out of COVID 19 and instead think of cases>hospitalizations>beds>ICU>Deaths. It's essentially the exact same metrics as a sales or marketing funnel.Total traffic is the largest driver and

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. I'm a strong advocate of testing as an important pillar of the coronavirus pandemic response. There is often confusion about what testing offers, and I think it's helpful to

Dr Sumaiya Shaikh

Neurophysik

TW & thread: COVID-19, menstruation & depressionGynaecologists, Obstetrics & women that have recovered from COVID-19:(Or keen beaners of Covid-19)Women, How were your menstrual cycles post COVID-19 recovery? Want to know

alex rubinsteyn

iskander

Saw this paper by way of @apoorva_nyc: "Escape from neutralizing antibodies by SARS-CoV-2 spike protein variants"https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.21.214759v1.abstractMy instinct is to expect any preprint on this top

alanconnor

alanconnor

Going to thread daily one-year old stories, see how long I last. BBC News front page on 12 Jan offering: 13 Jan, BBC Brasil: 14 Jan, 'pneumonia': 15 Jan 2020:

Kevin Cox Jr

K_Bioguy_Cox

It's #BlackHistoryMonth ! Each day (by a thread) I'll highlight an early career black botanist/plant scientist! Check them out! First is @KionaElliott, a @WUSTLdbbs NSF fellow at the @DanforthCenter in

Soumya

skarlamangla

since everyone in LA just learned about false negatives ... spoiler alert: they exist for every test! whatever COVID test you use, it's measuring the amount of virus in whatever

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