#Viruses

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KAlmsivi

Some things have been really bothering me with the handling of COVID19 so I'm going to ramble on a bit - aimed at no-one in particular. Herd Immunity - the

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

While not technically alive, there's an evil genius to viruses that never ceases to amaze me. It's one reason I became a virologist. A recent Nature paper reveal a remarkable

Atomsk's Sanakan

AtomsksSanakan

1/CA lot of COVID-19 contrarians abuse the idea of "cross-reactivity" to make SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) look less dangerous than it really is. Many of them do this

Jason Price

6WheelCowboy

Once again taken out of context. @realDonaldTrump was saying that we are facing another dilemma in medicine, super bugs due to the overuse of antibiotics. He was not referring to

Murray Penner 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸

murray_penner

1) Thread: I get a lot of questions about people living w/ HIV and their risk for acquiring COVID-19. The coronavirus (and other viruses) do not discriminate and can impact

Dana Jay Bein (#DJB)

danajaybein

#ThreadMy brilliant friend @dudek_amanda is a post doc at Stanford. She has her PhD in Virology from Harvard.This is what she thinks is important to tell people right now: "There

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

nntaleb

MASKSOne comment about masks and nonlinearities that these imbeciles are not getting.Reducing exposure to viruses by 30% thanks to an "imperfect" mask does not mean reducing risk of contracting the

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AndImOkayWithIt

1/ So I’m seeing the #5G & #5GCoronavirus connections being made again, but this time everyone’s connecting the #Hydroxychloroquine and mentioning #cancer #cures. There’s another BIG thing linked to these

Jan Forney 🇺🇸 🌎 🆘

janforney1

Or the opposite? Nanotechnology Electronics being used to wire brains - and because they are so small alter viruses signal immune cells? https://twitter.com/2dedostesta/status/1250555564930801664 @MingGao26 @itssuzann

Margaret McCartney

mgtmccartney

"To our knowledge, there are no trials of cloth masks in the general public."https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1435.long "Compared to no masks there was no reduction of influenza-like illness (ILI) cases or influenza for

Pete Birkinshaw

binaryape

When I read Bryan Adam's tweet this morning I thought he was specifically blaming wet markets & their customers (not all Chinese people) or meat eaters in general, but if

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

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ It is increasingly obvious to anyone who thinks the matter through that the lockdowns aren’t just terrible economically, societally, etc, but terrible PUBLIC HEALTH policy. Here’s yet another reason...

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

There are effectively two #COVID19 epidemics in the US at this moment; one largely resolving epidemic comprised of non-variant viruses and one growing epidemic of B.1.1.7. Together they have resulted

Summer Jaeger

SummrWrites

It was all of 30 days ago we were told that millions of Americans had an imminent death sentence due to covid19&I’m happy that that wasn’t true. We have cause

JohnGalt🌟🌟🌟trumptalk.gop

wmahoney5

This is what Trump was talking about you JERK REPORTERS: UV light and ozone therapy for treating viral disease: UVC light can act as a disinfectant to prevent bacteria from