#PrePrint

Kevin Esvelt

kesvelt

Can tracing alone control COVID?Our model: it's possible if we >double efficacy by changing how we trace & use digital apps.Thanks to @willbradbio, @EthanAlley, @jhhhuggins, & epidemiologist @alun_l !https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.06.

Siân Owen

implosian

I'm very excited to finally share the preprint for a project I've been working on for >4 years! Here's a thread with some of the highlights:https://twitter.com/biorxiv_micrbio/status/1282926532848214021 In a previous study

Remy Levin

RemyLevin

This hot take has been getting some attention today, so I think it's worth talking about why I think it's specious, and why the headline it comes with ("Lockdowns don't

Sean Froudist-Walsh

seanfw

1) Three years ago I saw a fascinating talk by Nicola Palomero-Gallagher about the patterns of receptors across the brain. I spoke to her and the great Prof. Karl Zilles

Society for Affective Science

affectScience

In the next few weeks we will highlight coping skills & ways to reduce loneliness & stress, informed by #affectivescience [thread] First, some helpful tips c/o @drjillnewby for managing general

Helen Ward

profhelenward

A thread on our research pre-printed yesterday (not peer-reviewed) on the prevalence in England of antibodies against the virus that causes COVID-19. Full paper below 1/nhttps://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/institute-of-global-

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

OMG! Who did this?!?! Best 2 minutes of your day, week, month, maybe year. #WearAMask #SleepingBeauty #COVID19 #Masks #MasksSaveLives 2) lol: “Try not to be so grouchy. Have some

J. Pardo

incisorial

I promised a thread on creationism and scicomm, so let's do this. First of all, some background and caveats here before I get deep into this. I'm not a specialist

Treponema Pallidum

sulley_ibraheem

Denmark will start a clinical trial of a drug named camostat mesylate tomorrow—barely 1 month after a Cell paper showed the compound can prevent the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, from entering

Abeba Birhane

Abebab

Preprint for our paper ‘Robot Right? Let’s Talk about Human Welfare Instead’ is up on arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.05046v1. @theblub & I argue not just to deny robots ‘rights’, but to deny

Nick Mark MD

nickmmark

Interesting preprint of the #LIVEAIR study of #lenzilumab in #COVID19:-double blind RCT n=502 hospitalized pts on suppl O2-lenzilumab associated with improved survival w/o ventilation: 84% vs 77.9% -larger benefit when

Marc Lipsitch

mlipsitch

Comment on https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764658 with @sarahcobey @KeyaJoshi3 shows conclusions change dramatically if use more appropriate Wallinga-Teunis method for R(t) estimation. Comment on the site and at https://github.com/

Joel Miller

joel_c_miller

@mlipsitch has a thread about a pair of recent preprints (note - not peer reviewed) which show that due to heterogeneities, immunity acquired through infection can lead to "herd immunity"

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MackayIM

Yes. Cloth masks (less so than surgical masks & less again than N95 respirators) *can* reduce risk of inhaling potentially (an as yet unproven, but possible route of SARS-CoV-2 infection)

Gus Hamilton

gushamilton

New (short) paper out - A Bayesian re-analysis of the convalescent plasma (CP) arm of RECOVERY with @DrToddLee @karlahemming @rjlilford and @DavidT_Arnold. Key question: Is CP futile in hospitalised patients

Jake Vogel

_JakeVogel_

Does Alzheimer’s disease pathology spread through the brain consistently across the population? We delve into this in our paper “Four distinct trajectories of tau deposition identified in Alzheimer’s disease”, now