#Viruses

Raj Sivaraman

rajsivaraman

Hey, It’s me - a virologist! #SARSCoV2 isn’t man made and here’s why /1 Let’s start with WHY - why would someone make this virus in a lab?Making money from

J.B. Handley

jb_handley

1/ [influenza] Vaccine derived virus interference was significantly associated with coronavirushttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7126676/ 2/ “Receiving influenza vaccination may increase the risk of other respiratory viruses, a

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

Very provocative new paper by @dylanhmorris @jlloydsmith on effects of temp & humidity on survival of SARS-CoV-2 on surfaces. Need to be careful in interpreting most novel aspects of this

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

What Ralph Baric of Baric Lab (Gilead, Remdesivir) knew in 2010: "Zn2+ [Zinc Ion] Inhibits Coronavirus and Arterivirus RNA Polymerase Activity In Vitro and Zinc Ionophores Block the Replication of These Viruses in

Talha M

Mufti_Talha

Lessons from #GlobalPandemic Few lessons learnt in past few days: 1. United States is no longer the world's leading country.2. China won the 3rd World War without firing

el gato malo

boriquagato

dear casedemic doomers:when even the NYT is now saying that cases are a terrible metric and that most found by the overly sensitive PCR tests are not signs of active

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MAGATISM_369

1). Royal Raymond Rife. Have you ever heard of him? Do you know what he was working on? Have you ever heard the term “Resonance Frequency?” Lets

Edward Nirenberg

ENirenberg

I'm seeing a lot of nonsense about boosting the immune system lately, so here's a far-too-long thread on what "boosting the immune system" really means and why 1) you can't

david oliver

mancunianmedic

lots of people with no clinical qualifications, training and experience yesterday trying to "splain" to me that what we *think* is Covid-19 in acute care is just normal seasonal respiratory

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

So much focus on sensitivity of the test. As though all tests must match up to PCRBut could focusing so much on achieving the greatest molecular sensitivity for asymptomatic testing

Matt McCarthy

DrMattMcCarthy

UPDATE: CDC's stance on masks is evolving because our understanding of #coronavirus has changed. Some believe we should now view it like a poison, where the initial dose of exposure

SwampFox

TheSwampFox_76

So Ive read people say Bill Gates is attached to this China Virus & its one of many reasons he resigned from Microsoft. Ive also read that you can “own

Lavender Lives Forever (Parler)

LavenderLives

Who is Beatrice H Hahn German Virologist University of PN Stephen Hahn Head of FDA Knowingly held CURES Beatrice Hahn, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012,

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Recent preprint reporting that 24/24 (100%) people form Singapore infected by SARS-1 in 2003 have pre-existing T-cell immunity against #SARSCoV2, but more surprisingly 9/18 (50%) with no exposure to SARS-1

Andy

oaedoel

I understand people think masks work - its "obvious", right?But the real world is more complex than that, so being a strange sort of chap who prefers science to a

ChicagoTeachersUnion

CTULocal1

Thank you to the brave educators who shared their stories this morning about the issues they faced in working with the mayor and CPS for accommodations. Ms. Dorado at Henry