#SARS

Gabor Erdosi 🧩📄📊🧭

gerdosi

1/ Thread on immunity in the respiratory system: how it does and doesn't work (i.e. myths), simplified as much as I could. I’ll use the apropos of a new press

Lemon House Stories

StoriesLemon

My awful experience is little compared to so many others, but I still have PTSD from what happened. I am scarred, these guys must be stopped. It happened while I

Lonni Besançon 🇫🇷 🇸🇪

lonnibesancon

1. Bon les deuxièmes vagues sont partout... comme prédit initialement. Un thread sur le "pourquoi portez le masque est important". Il contient toutes les infos à balancer aux complotistes anti-masques

Gobardhan Das

dasgobardhan

I am an immunologist and have worked on T-cells half my life. In this thread I will present a rebuttal that will hopefully encourage more debate.The idea that herd immunity

James Wilson

jamewils

In the study published in medRxiv, a team at the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute of the New York Blood Center and Rockefeller University analyzed 370 plasma samples donated from people who

A. Cuesta-Vargas

aicuesta

knowing The Enemy Conociendo "al Enemigo"Clinical characteristics of 2019 novel coronavirus infection in China https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.06.20020974v1First Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the United States

Keerthik Sasidharan

KS1729

Deadly coronavirus comes in three variants, researchers find. 'Types A, B and C are all derived from the pathogen first found in bats but have evolved in different ways, according

Thijs Kuiken

thijskuiken

1/11 Since you ask seriously, I will try to explain my views in detail. I think that your questions aren't framed appropriately, for several reasons. Regarding the #COVID_19 outbreak, we

balajis.com

balajis

One of the problems with the “herd immunity” narrative is that we don’t know the duration of immunity to SARS-COV-2.For other coronaviruses, and different diseases like malaria, immunity is not

Roxanne Khamsi

rkhamsi

THREAD --> In this time of #COVID19, I figured it might be handy to share some basics with other reporters who might be new to the health beat. What's an

David Steadson 🇦🇺🇸🇪🇪🇺🌍

DavidSteadson

Anders Tegnell and @Folkhalsomynd seem interested in working out the total number of people in Stockholm that have already been infected by #covid19 and thus may have a measure of

Earl Bramley-Howard

deepgreendude

A word on "herd immunity" @MattHancockCovid19 is leaving people who had "mild" cases, with what could turn out to be permanent lung damage.So "Herd immunity" might have condemned millions of

Jeremy Kamil 🇺🇦

macroliter

Let’s debunk some fear-mongering.. “Vaccines themselves promote mutations” says @DrDomPimenta ON THE CONTRARY.. good vaccines massively slow viral evolution, as explained here by @sarahcobey @mlipsitch @DanLarremore https://www.nature

Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD

Arrianna_Planey

Been working on COVID-19-related projects, and a recurrent theme is occupational sorting & risk stratification that falls along the axes of race, ethnicity, immigration status, & class.e.g. employment in meat

ScienceVet

ScienceVet2

"More people die of the flu every year, you're just fear mongering"No, more than 140k Americans do NOT die from flu a year. No matter how you calculate them.2017-18 was

Adrienne Carter

adriennecarter

China has expelled our correspondents, along with others from @wsj and @washingtonpost, in a diplomatic dispute with the U.S.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/business/media/china-expels-american-journalists.html Here’s why it matters. Without repor