#EbolaVirus

Atomsk's Sanakan

1/YThread on a fallacy I've seen a lot since the pandemic's beginning. Someone may have named it before, but if so, I can't find it.So I'm calling it:the ebola fallacy,

These days I remember the discussions that we had about the outbreaks of emerging diseases such as HIV, Ebola, Zika, Swine Flu, Bird Flu, SARS, and others in our global

1/nToday, I read a #COVID19 #Vaccine piece repeating that the Oxford team were 80% confident that there vaccine would work. This had previously struck me as an odd figure, and

Anosognosiogenesis

Coronavirus is several times more contagious than flu, several times more deadly than flu, but it is very low on the scale of truly awful possible pandemics.It's the easy mode,

Sanjeev McIntyre

Viruses used to be named after Origin places like EHF was named Zaire ebolavirus because its Origin place was near Ebola River, coccidioidomycosis's origin place was San Joaquin Valley that’s