#SARS

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Wanted to tweet on masking as getting a lot of interest in this today (I am not a ventilation scientist; I am just an epidemiologist/ID doctor who can see from

Nathan Lo

NathanLo3579

1/N Our new article published in Clinical Infectious Diseases (@IDSAInfo) on role of routine asymptomatic testing for #COVID19 in healthcare settings. We find twice weekly testing of all healthcare workers/patients

TXinTimeOut

TXstillWatching

I brought ccr5-delta32 mutants, -rh blood types, and using ccr5 antagonists as possible treatment back when Pradhan published the "Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to

Jessica Watson

drjessicawatson

So much in the media about #COVIDー19 testing, it seems important to correct some misconceptions. Thread Two types of test:Viral RNA tests - RT-PCR - swab tests - to detect

c0nc0rdance

c0nc0rdance

Let's talk about *window period* and how it makes everything in diagnostics complicated and difficult.Window period is the time between infection and when a diagnostic test becomes useful. This is

Lucre Snooker

LucreSnooker

might fuck around and do a long detailed t-cell thread there's a lovely new paper that sheds a lot of light on CD8+ (aka killer/cytotoxic) T cells in COVID-19 and

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

When variants of concern were first identified in late Dec, the US was not where it needed to be in terms of genomic surveillance. However, with considerable ramp up by

Socrates™

THA_god_MC

#EndSARS #EndSarsNow #EndPoliceBrutality Ive decided to lend my hand to this disturbance Since i cant be out there putting my body on the line for the goalThe least i can

Sarah Rosemary

SarahRosemary3

During March 3 briefing when BJ was 'still shaking hands' the upbeat tone stood in sharp contrast with the growing unease of many of the govt’s scientific advisers behind the

Amish Amla

pet_amanda

Today 23/06/20 is D14/14.01/06/20 I was exposed. Patient was admitted, stayed 10 days then got sick , retest turned +ve. Immediately I isolate myself at home. I walk around with

Cú Chulainn

Cukullen

thread: in 2015 UNC Chapel Hill BSL-3 lab worked w. Wuhan BSL-4 bioweapons lab with funding by NIH & China to develop chimeric SARS-like corona virus, efficiently using multiple ACE2

Health Nerd

GidMK

This study in PLOS One is being reported (and used by a lot of people on twitter) as proving definitively that Vitamin D supplementation can treat COVID-19So, thought I'd do

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 171Ending 2 weeks off in (totally) smoke-free & (relatively) Covid-free New Hampshire. As I resurface, I’m reminded of the scene in Hamilton in which Jefferson,

Farwa | Scientific Skincare

scienceandskin

Chair Of Uk’s Vaccine Taskforce Dampens Vaccine HopesA thread http://scienceandskincare.blog/2020/10/28/chair-of-uks-vaccine-taskforce-dampens-vaccine-hopes/ Kate Bingham, head of the UK's Vaccine Taskforce, has already warned there

Karen

IDrawPicsAllDay

Ever wonder how the medical illustrators at @JAMA_current create figures like these? There’s a thread for that! Here it is!https://twitter.com/jama_current/status/1249880050763259905 Firstly, the process for this illustration was super sped up

Philippe Lemoine

phl43

Epidemiologists claim that B.1.1.7 is far more transmissible than the historical lineage. In this post, I look at what happened in France and argue that, while B.1.1.7 initially had a