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The Times

thetimes

Exclusive | The linking of Covid-19 vaccines with infertility was almost inevitableConspiracy theory claims of female sterilisation and “population control” have long dogged vaccination drives through history But how did

Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne

jmcrookston

Kids catch coronaviruses. Quick thread of a review article about two cold coronas that we knew about in 1974 when this article was written.The article also says CoVs are airborne

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

I’m a virologist & investor... & I’m hearing people say it’s impossible to make covid vaccine b/c we haven’t been able to make one to any coronaviruses. Not true. We

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

HUGE. **Rapid** 15 min tests approved by @WHO—a bold & right step for #COVID19. Akin to home pregnancy tests, rapid antigen tests better than PCR where labs scares & lag

Erin C. Sanders, MSN, WHNP-BC (She/Her)

ErinSandersNP

1/ @choo_ek's tweet made me giggle last night (there has been evidence of this, although small)! THEN PAPER COMES OUT TODAY:#SARSCoV2 Nucleocapsid Protein in the Ocular Tissues of a Patient

#MaskUp Dr. Haryax Pathak

HaryaxPathak

COVID-19 Vaccines: What We Know So Far!- By Dr. Vipin M. Vashishtha, MD @vipintukur The Global Scenario: Ten different Covid-19 vaccines have shared their Phase III data.2 based on mRNA,4

Gabor Erdosi 🧩📄📊🧭

gerdosi

1/ Thread on immunity in the respiratory system: how it does and doesn't work (i.e. myths), simplified as much as I could. I’ll use the apropos of a new press

Roxanne Khamsi

rkhamsi

THREAD --> In this time of #COVID19, I figured it might be handy to share some basics with other reporters who might be new to the health beat. What's an

Nature Medicine

NatureMedicine

It's #WorldCancerDay and we @NatureMedicine are fortunate to work with the amazing #cancerresearch community to share exciting and impactful #translational and #clinical studies on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of

Satoshi Akima

ToshiAkima

"Cytokine Storm". The idiot's buzzword of the week. It makes you sound smarter if you say it often enough. When I first heard of it in 1994 it sounded AMAZING!

VigilantEyes

WomanSci

Vaccine summary : Three main approaches to design vaccine. 1. Use a whole virus or bacterium. 2.Just the parts of the germ that triggers the immune system 3. Just the

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Wanted to drill down a bit more about the importance of the T-cell response to SARS-CoV-2 to give you more reassurance of enduring protection from vaccines (even against variants). Technical

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Why should we not worry about VARIANTS "escaping" immunity from vaccines or natural infection; why are we not likely to need vaccine BOOSTERS? Remember immunity is both antibody and cell-mediated

#MaskUp Dr. Haryax Pathak

HaryaxPathak

#COVID19India - A thread for the Layman.I'll attempt to keep it as simple and concise as possible.A) PrecautionsB) TestingC) VaccinesD) ?? Herd Immunity ??E) MISINFORMATION/MYTHS/CONSPIRACIES 1/n A) PRECAUTIONSThe second

Allen Cheng

peripatetical

A thread about the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in development. There are a lot of candidate vaccines in development, but we still have a long way to go. Vaccines work by training

Sam Dylan Finch

samdylanfinch

There's a lot of weird tweets popping up about how we shouldn't need a vaccine for COVID-19, questions around why a vaccine is being hailed as The Answer and not