#Infection

Gertrud Rey PhD (Trudy)

GertrudRey

Do memory T cells induced by seasonal coronavirus infection protect us from SARS-CoV-2 infection and/or disease? I attempt to answer this question in this thread. Also at virology blog. (1/n)

Willem Rautenbach

WillemRaut

A thread on the SA alcohol ban: Initially I was very pro-ban, citing reasons such as an increase in GBV, abuse, and ICU capacity. In fact, 40% - 55% (!)

Lucy Walker Lab UCL

LucyWalkerlab

At the start of the pandemic it was unclear whether infection with the novel coronavirus (#SARSCoV2) would lead to protective immunity, how long immunity would last, whether vaccines could be

Ezra Levant 🍁

ezralevant

1. Canada does not have a COVID-19 pandemic. It never did. This has always been an Ontario-Quebec pandemic. Those two provinces have 62% of the population; 81% of the cases;

Papu

ur_friend_papu

Republican member of the US House of Reps infected 14 days after 1st dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.https://twitter.com/spwells/status/1346685409401552896 Why giving out only 1 dose of the vaccine in the hope

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

(1/17) Study of 2482 parents and 2482 children aged 1-10 years from Baden-Württemberg, Germany, showing that between 22 April and 15 May 2020, parents were more likely to have antibodies

Aaron Ring

aaronmring

I am getting a lot of emails and DMs from people wondering if our recent preprint raises concerns that a vaccine to SARS-CoV-2 would cause autoantibody responses like we see

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO

WHO issued an updated scientific brief on #COVID19 transmission, which provides information on how, when and in which settings the virus spreads between people:https://bit.ly/2W251Ma #COVID19 transmission occurs primarily through dire

Rob O'Hanrahan

RobOHanrahan

Interesting line here from a quote by a Taoiseach spokesperson in this CNN report on Ireland's third wave:"the incidence of infection was 'relatively low' in hospitality, retail and construction settings".Not

David Grainger

sciencescanner

Lots of people highlighting pessimistic estimates of duration of protection for #COVID vaccines - but the facts guides us in the opposite direction: Im optimistic for multi-year duration of protectionWhy?1/n

Marion Koopmans

MarionKoopmans

Wow factor paper of the week: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.18.388819v1.full#ref-12Loss of taste and smell is a key symptom of COVID-19. This group studied infection of olfactory bulb sensory neural cells from nasal mucosa

James Parnell

ParnellJames

THREADMessage to @GovBillLee 12/15Update on my Emergency Department shift last night. With no beds in our hospital, closest available hospital with beds available for transfer was out of state. A

Dave Blake, PhD

_stah

OK, every so often, for new followers, a methods thread. This will be good for ppl who like statistics, I hope. I make these plots showing R and infection density.

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

PeaceLove&Outrage ☮️💕😡

1980Dorothy

Now do it for schools. For our kids, their dedicated teachers,and all the the administrators, school nurses, bus drivers, custodians, cafeteria staff, and every single person who provides educational support

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

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