#Viruses

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Today's novel stupidity strain: people sliding into my mentions with idiotic cod-evolutions theories that hold that viruses will, over time, attain a peaceful coexistence because more virulent and deadly strains

#MaskUp Kat (She/Her)

KT8812

If you don't know the difference between mRNA, rRNA and tRNA, you're not qualified to suggest that the COVID-19 vaccines are "dangerous gene therapy." I said what I said If

Dan Kaszeta

DanKaszeta

People worrying about whether or not filtration works, based on the small size of the COVID virus are getting worked up about the size of single viruses. However, you don't

EBabady, PhD

EBabady

So interesting! How often do you, #asmclinmicro & #AMPath, get asked about Ct values? This manuscript is full of information and the Ct values data is fascinating.https://twitter.com/nejm/status/1253775720972644352 Ct value... an

Grudge of Whales

grudging1

Ok I’m going to attempt a thread that brings together all the reporting on things Trump did prior to the virus which set us up for failure. 1/ Pandemic team

Hutchinson Lab CVR

CVRHutchinson

We’ve just had a paper published and I would like to tell you a story about people in science being nice to each other – a threadhttps://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30630-9 This is a

Dr. Thomas Binder, MD

Thomas_Binder

1/10The seasonal flu wave is caused by several influenza and beta-corona viruses. This year, Corona-19 joined in. In the flu wave ends, due to herd immunity, in April. With

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Many discussions about #COVID19 boil down to wether the virus is 'just like the flu' or 'nothing like the flu'. As such, I felt it may be useful to provide

Peter Castleden

peter_castleden

The DANMASK study is now the best available scientific evidence for COVID-19 that shows wearing a mask gives no real benefit to the wearer.It wasn't a surprise since this is

Bae Guevara

Kaimandante

THREADEvolutionary Biologist Rob Wallace (who is a socialist ) wrote “Big Farms Make Big Flu” (2016) where he makes the connection between capitalism, corporate farming practices and the emergence of

Matthew

Matthew94091812

Surface cleaning has largely been phased out as a COVID mitigation. This 2015 cross-sectional study found increased surface cleaning in homes was correlated with greater respiratory infections in children. See

The Times

thetimes

It comes as a wolf in sheep’s clothing: once in the body, it tricks cells into replicating itself. For a minority this means a hospital stay or worse. @whippletom traces

STEMLORD

upulie

It would be so nice if people - ok tech dudes- could just stay in their misinformed Dunning-Kruger laneshttps://twitter.com/scottadamssays/status/1246436471998787584 Folks I have a science degree with a double major in

Werise

We_Have_Risen

Daily dose of WTF...Question: The year is 2020 and the guy who created the worlds most vulnerable computer susceptible to to viruses, wants to vaccinate you, to cure you from

Lowe 🏳️‍🌈 #MassTestingNowPH #JunkTerrorLaw

inflowescence

The COVID mutation that Dr. Salvaña was talking about in that CNN interview is a change in Spike, the viral protein that the virus uses to infect human cells. A

Amy C🍩🍩pes

coopesdetat

New @NatureMedicine paper looking at effects on transmission of influenza and human coronaviruses (not SARS-CoV-2 specifically) of wearing surgical masks. TL;DR - reduces flu droplet detection, CoV aerosol detection &