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Hillel Neuer
HillelNeuer
World Health Organization expert advisor Jaime Metzl: "The most likely starting point of the coronavirus crisis is an accidental leak from the Chinese virology institute in Wuhan.” He believes researchers
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Amy C🍩🍩pes
coopesdetat
New @NatureMedicine paper looking at effects on transmission of influenza and human coronaviruses (not SARS-CoV-2 specifically) of wearing surgical masks. TL;DR - reduces flu droplet detection, CoV aerosol detection &
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C. Michael Gibson MD
CMichaelGibson
Thread:If you were designing the perfect virus what characteristics would it have?1. Spread frequently by people who look healthy2. Long latent period for pre-asymptomatic spread3. It’s Airborne including potential aerosolized
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John Noonan
noonanjo
2yrs ago, US diplomats warned about safety problems at the Wuhan virology lab and said lab’s work on bat coronaviruses could become a new SARs pandemic.A month ago, @SenTomCotton left
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@hjellebrian
hjellebrian1
THREAD. It's beginning to look likely, even probable, that we owe the pandemic of COVID-19 to lax biocontainment of bat viruses at Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).I do not say
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Dena Grayson, MD, PhD
DrDenaGrayson
2 years before the #CoronavirusPandemic, US officials visited #Wuhan's virology lab and warned DC that the lab’s work on bat coronaviruses and their potential human transmission represented a risk of
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Dr Zoë Hyde
DrZoeHyde
(1/5) Perhaps 20-50% of people already have T cells which recognise the virus causing #COVID19. This study shows that these T cells result from past infections with the coronaviruses which
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pieterstreicher
pieterstreicher
1 of 3:Covid-19 deaths increase away from the source.This chart plots C-19 deaths as a % of the > 65 population (at risk group).Lockdown stringency does not consistently increase away
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balajis.com
balajis
One of the problems with the “herd immunity” narrative is that we don’t know the duration of immunity to SARS-COV-2.For other coronaviruses, and different diseases like malaria, immunity is not
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Will Yale
will_yale
Read this @NPR article, and then read this from a recent @IgnatiusPost article. The problem is, most virologists aren’t China experts, even if they sometimes cooperate with Chinese labs... https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/23/84172964
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EpigeneticWhisperer or Tramscendental Love Child
EpigeneticWhisp
“Just last year, the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases [NIAID], the organization led by Dr. Fauci, funded scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other institutions for
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Ananth Krishnan
ananthkrishnan
Thread: What we know and don’t know on the origins of Covid-19: Was it bio-engineered? Did it escape from a lab in Wuhan? What does the evidence tell us so
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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne
jmcrookston
Canada, remember that the "experts" told you schools wouldn't lead to outbreaks.https://twitter.com/DrZoeHyde/status/1330177159210692610 Also, remember when the public health authorities tell you that they don't know where
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Adam Hamdy
adamhamdy
1. Reinfection. Whisper it quietly lest you be dismissed as a crank or alarmist. What bothers me about the question of reinfection is that if you talk to a lot
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Prof Francois Balloux
BallouxFrancois
The lack of a resurgence in #COVID19 cases following the easing of lockdowns in several countries is intriguing. I'll take Switzerland as an example. The lockdown ended on May 11
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Adam Kucharski
AdamJKucharski
'Herd immunity' has been reached during previous epidemics of influenza, measles and seasonal coronaviruses. But it's subsequently been lost (and then regained). What are some of the reasons for this?
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