#SARS_CoV_2

drsandeepkumarr

Testing makes it crucial, beyong the ICEBERG analogy or phenomena in case of #Covid_19 major virus shredders are people are positive but have mild or even no symptoms.This group spreads

While bats were thought to be the likely carriers of the novel 2019 #coronavirus, a team at @hkumed found that pangolins, scaly-skinned animals native to Asia, also called ‘scaly anteaters’,

1/ Okay, 11 am. Breaking news: it is almost certain more people over 100 have died of #COVID worldwide than under 30 - and more over 90 than under 50.

1/2 It's possible that hydroxychloroquine is effective against the coronavirus. An emergency medicine physician friend of mine was using prophylactically before Trump even got involved. It could have been used

Q: Are higher temperatures more likely to cause loss of infectivity in #SARS_COV_2?A: The team at @hkumed incubated the virus and observed how long it would take for it to

For those wondering if #COVID19 is likely to confer immunity to re-infection or disease, here is an interesting study with a *different* common-cold human coronavirus that attempted to infect and

Sara Whitestone

After seeing an alarming amount of anti-mask & pseudoscience posts from folks in my hometown, I announced an #AMA on my fbook to answer questions about #SARS_CoV_2 & #COVID19. Disclaimed

Nikita Consul, MD

Every day I walk to work @BCMRadiology, I am asked #COVID19 screening questions and handed a mask to wear. I investigate the reasoning behind some of the gastrointestinal screening

The Awakened Soul

TheAwakenedSou2

SARS-CoV-2 seems to accumulate mutations slowly; even so, variants might pose a challenge for a vaccine. Inactivated virus is the key for a viable vaccine. #sarscov2vaccine #covidresearch #covidscience #COVIDVACCINE #coronavirusvaccine

Two very interesting #SARS_CoV_2 seroprevalence studies released from India and Peru giving insights to COVID19 pandemic from emerging countries. Delhi with large sample size and prevalence of almost 23% and

1. Reinfection. Whisper it quietly lest you be dismissed as a crank or alarmist. What bothers me about the question of reinfection is that if you talk to a lot

Carlos Chaccour 🦟🔚💊

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I have been working with #ivermectin for more than 10 years.We need to talk about ivermectin and #COVID19 Thread #SARS_COV_2 is a positive single-stranded RNA virusIvermectin inhibits in vitro

Alessandro Bertero

Thought you knew all about the nastiness of #COVID19? Alas, we found that the virus can also infect and damage #heart cells, perhaps explaining cardiac complications. Kudos @SilviaMarchia⁩ ⁦@UWISCRM⁩ for

ʟᴜʟᴜ ʟᴇ ᴍᴇᴡ☮︎

Dr. @NickSawyerMD is a California emergency medicine physician who has been volunteering at Elmhurst in Queens since 4/23. #SARS_CoV_2 “causes a syndrome..a collection of symptoms...that we’ve not seen before.” Watch:https://m.faceboo

1. I've been thinking about the variables of #COVID19 risk, and how we move beyond the simplistic view of mortality vs survival rates. I've put together a list of things

Leah McElrath 🏳️‍🌈

Joe Biden needs to be quarantined too.He and Trump were both maskless at the debate. I’m distressed by how many people still believe social distancing within an interior space is