#Coronaviruses

Mr. T- Cell

realCOVID19_

Daily reminder:— Coronavirus main host is a bat— Bats are not found in Wuhan/Hubei region— Bats would have been hibernating around time of the outbreak— COVID19 is extremely susceptible to

chey

littlebqqm

1) I preface a lot of my thoughts on @realDonaldTrump with this, but I feel like it gives them more significance.Once upon a time, I was a liberal never-trumper.I know,

Jeremy PLEASE WEAR MASKS! Konyndyk

JeremyKonyndyk

This is a fair question. It's also a good one to pose to a virologist like @angie_rasmussen rather than only an administration source. Bottom line is we can't know for

internetperson

interne41914499

*10,000 view celebratory thread*The May-June 2020 iterations of this article were the first to link coronaviruses from the Mojiang mineshaft to documented activity at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)

Dr. Arinjay Banerjee

sci_questions

Our latest study to understand the dynamic regulation of #interferon (#IFN) and #SARSCoV2 infection. summarizing what we found and what needs to be done to understand the dynamic interplay of

Dr. Safa Mote

SafaMote

Thread: The Precautionary PrincipleIn order to minimize risk when information is insufficient, assume a higher negative impact outcome, especially when the stakes are high. The resulting decisions could prevent or

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Treatment for #COVID19 has improved and there may be some 'mortality displacement' effect with a proportion of the most at-risk population having deceased in the spring epidemic. Both factors could

Dear Pandemic

DearPandemic

Q: Should those who have had #COVID19 and recovered be issued an "immunity passport" or "risk-free certificate"?A: The @WHO states, "At this point in the pandemic, there is not enough

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

“About 10% of the global population may be infected by October 2020. Global infection fatality rate is 0.15‐0.20% (0.03‐0.04% in those

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO

NEW: WHO interim guidance on a range of topics to help countries manage the new #coronavirus http://bit.ly/2TaaWOH WHO is providing information to countries on how to prepare for the

manasataramgini

blog_supplement

Hearing from two physicians (these are not run of the mill, very academic and widely informed about pathology and pharmacology): 1) There is a good chance of serious morale issues

Prof. Akiko Iwasaki

VirusesImmunity

An excellent new study by @BrodinPetter’s team on the differences between MIS-C and Kawasaki disease. This is incredibly timely and informative. Here are a couple of highlights. (1/)https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)31157-0

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

7 reasons why think immunity to COVID from vaccination or infection will be long-lived (and why I continue to marvel that CEOs of companies who stand to make profit from

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

Gro-Tsen

gro_tsen

Why the fck is the WHO saying this? I get that they want to discourage the “oh, let's just let everyone get infected” ‘policy’, but “no evidence” at all that

Pℇℇ Wℇℇ

P_Wee

Educating the panicked...According to data from the best-studied countries and regions, the lethality of Covid19 is on average about 0.2%, which is in the range of a severe influenza (flu)