#Coronaviruses

Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne

From 1979The coronaviruses are transmitted by the respiratory route. It has been possible artificially to induce infection in human volunteers by inoculating virus into the nose (7, 59). No other

Exclusive: State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruseshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-department-cables-warned-safety-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/ In 2018, U.S. Emba

Where do #SARSCoV2 & other #coronaviruses come from?Big survey of SE Asian bats, bat guano, field rats & other wildlife:- 2,164 samples collected, Jan2013 to Mar2014 from rodents & bats-

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/icmr-researchers-detect-coronaviruses-in-two-bat-species-in-india/story-G2P2tClRUTG9MsvX77Vt2K.html The discovery of new coronaviruses in bats is not surprising. However, we MUST ensure that this kind of news

Noah Smith 🐇

I was HEAVILY lambasted on Twitter for saying I thought it sounded possible that the coronavirus *might* have escaped from a lab.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-department-cables-warned-safety-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-co

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ㅤㅤ 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐍 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐏𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐂 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐃𝐈 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐈𝐄’𝐒 𝐐 & 𝐀 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐃-𝟏𝟗

Richard H. Ebright

"In..2018..US Embassy in Beijing..dispatched two diplomatic cables categorized as Sensitive But Unclassified back to Washington. The cables warned about safety..weaknesses at..lab [and] that..lab's work on bat coronaviruses..represented..ris

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

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Epidemiology question that's been bothering me: Why are 70% of the sickest #COVID19 patients men? Could understanding lower risk in women be important for prevention? And could lower risk in

Is everything normal in China? Some reports, videos tell otherwise https://www.wionews.com/world/is-everything-normal-in-china-some-reports-videos-tell-otherwise-289537 @wionews Must watch this Chinese researchers isolated deadly bat coronaviruses ne

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’,

Now, I don't know when a COVID-19 vaccine will come out or ultimately if there will be one (a lot of it depends on the biology of the virus and

THREAD: There’s some confusion under this original post, so it’s thread time, folks!The intelligence community is still reviewing this, but they are increasingly feeling that it’s possible this came from

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The World Health Organization has said Coronavirus may end up being an endemic that we will all have to live with forever.An endemic means the disease will be in some

Caitlin Rivers, PhD

1/ Although the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented in many ways, our vulnerabilities to infectious disease threats has been long known to those of us in public health. 2/ Back in

Vicky Xu / 许秀中

The Xu Dezhong book (not a secret doc) is no smoking gun. It shows Chinese military scientists *thought* about coronavirus as a weapon (by the US). From there to the