#Coronaviruses

Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓

BillyBostickson

1. Do you remember the 2014 paper by Chinese military scientist, Dezhong, Xu?(English version found by @Krolli)"SARS Coronavirus (v1) originated from unnatural evolution, experienced reverse evolution, & finally disappeared"ht

Virat A Singh

tweetsvirat

64 chiropterologists (those who study bats) frm 6-SouthAsian countries debunk myths nd present 7-points tht clarifies: #BATS do nt spread #Covid_19 nd ask2 #StopVillainizingBats #bat4bats@ParveenKaswan@susantananda3 @rameshpandeyifs@SudhaRamenIFS Fol

Matt Ridley

mattwridley

Thread on the origin on the virus.Many media outlets including the @thesundaytimes are speculating about whether the virus leaked from the Institute of Virology in Wuhan (WIV). Please note this

Dylan Morris

dylanhmorris

New preprint on how temperature and humidity affect the infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses. Key finding: the virus remains infectious longer at low temperatures and extreme relative humidities.https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.16.

Kristian G. Andersen

K_G_Andersen

The SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site is yet again in the news - this time because of a quote by Nobel laureate David Baltimore.The site is not a "smoking gun", nor

Alpha OmegaEnergy "The Energy Kraken"

AOECOIN

Some people posing as "Health knowledgeable" are lying about #Coronavirus so I will cover some FACTS:1. There is no known progenitor of this rna virus version (could be one humans

NewsBytes

NewsBytesApp

Earlier, it was believed that a large number of asymptomatic patients was bad news since people could infect others without knowing that they were infectedHowever, experts now point out that

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

Severe #COVID19 resulting from Original Antigenic Sin??May be a contributor. Makes senseSuperb paper evaluating cross-reactivity between donor B cells targeting SARS-CoV-2 and other seasonal Coronas.This figure (2) is really depicts

Kelly Brown

rubiconcapital_

1/ Toronto is entering full lockdown.In this thread, I’ll show the absurdity of a citywide shutdown, simply using by-neighbourhood case/positivity data, w/ census data integration.Unmeasurable, unnecessary collateral harm is coming;

Adam Hamdy

adamhamdy

1. What is the government's current #COVID19 strategy? Here is Chris Whitty on 4th March explaining the government's strategy was late intervention and early release. But what is it now?https://twitter.com/adamhamdy/status/130361651

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

Professor Raj Bhopal- Prof Em. of Public Health at the Univ of Edinburgh, Scotland- advocating for controlled herd immunity:Protect the elderly Let the young get C19The vaccine might not to

Kaitlyn Sadtler

KSadtler

Press Release We’re implementing a large-scale serological #SARSCoV2 testing study by combo of @NIHClinicalCtr & mail-in donation. Excited to lead the lab crew after sample handoff by clinical collab

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

Daily #COVID19 case counts are increasing in the US and we seem to hitting a third wave (or second surge if you'd prefer). Here I wanted to look at how

Jim Geraghty

jimgeraghty

The evidence that COVID-19 came from either the Wuhan Institute of Virology or the Wuhan Centre for Disease Control and NOT the Huanan Seafood Market is circumstantial. But is a

Jonathan Myerson Katz

KatzOnEarth

I talked to the head of USAID/PREDICT, who worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, about @joshrogin’s article. Its goal was to stop viruses from jumping from bats, etc, into

Dr Flavia Santos

flavinska72

Trustful source and updated information regarding #COVID19 #coronavirus #covid_19 in #Ireland #Health https://twitter.com/roinnslainte/status/1227575164830875651 https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/