#Coronaviruses

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

Let's leave everything else on the table. In my field, public health, @realDonaldTrump is a menace. He botched the response to COVID19. 1/https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1643/rapid-responses He's reached down into @NIH to targe

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

Fantastic white paper on the summary of the evidence of the impacts on COVID-19.https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/In this thread I've just cut and post their summary points. 1. According to the latest immunologi

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

There is a lot of Twitter chatter surrounding a rumor that circulation of #COVID19 in California in fall 2019 has resulted in herd immunity. This is empirically not the case.

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

Just became aware of an article from May interviewing experts to debunk lab scenarios for SARS-CoV-2 origins (it was cited in an Atlantic article published today). I'm going to work

Jim Geraghty

jimgeraghty

Back on October 16, 2014, the U.S. National Institutes of Health instituted a “pause” on gain-of-function experiments with influenza, SARS, and MERS viruses, citing concerns about biosafety and biosecurity risks.https://bit.ly/3bZVqv6

anindita

HmApkHainKwan

Covid19, Fowchi & William Gates - Thread on who stands to gainCovid19 virus likely came from intermediate horseshoe bat.CCP declared origin to be Woohan wet market close to Woohan Institute

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

Let’s talk about herd immunity. Are some cities and regions acquiring it sooner than expected and thus have higher than expected protection against Covid-19?https://trib.al/ACe2r0n The evidence for herd immunity can

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Promised to tweet out a few more thoughts from my reporting on #covid19 clustering and dispersion factor k. So here goes:https://twitter.com/kakape/status/1262876041237991424 Quick recap first: Reproduction number R is an average.

Avik Roy

Avik

THREAD: Big news today. For the first time, we have a confirmed report of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection by a patient in Hong Kong—his/her #COVID19 diagnoses were 4.5 months apart. This blows

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

Let’s talk COVID testing. Public needs to know how they work, why they can be wrong, what decisions to make based on imperfect “specificity”, & how to tell when a

Asher Wolf

Asher_Wolf

In the false dichotomy of “lock everything down, stay home, save lives” vs “we cannot close everything down for 18 months, life must resume”, I’m not hearing a lot of

Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓

BillyBostickson

HIV "Inserts" ThreadThis Thread will examine in tedious detail:1. HIV based Virus Like particles (VLPs) & Lentiviruses used mainly for vaccine development2. Important papers & analyses published on HIV "inserts"3

Raj Sivaraman

rajsivaraman

Hey, It’s me - a virologist! #SARSCoV2 isn’t man made and here’s why /1 Let’s start with WHY - why would someone make this virus in a lab?Making money from

el gato malo

boriquagato

this is so close to meaningless as to be indistinguishable and this press release is so riddled with errors i question the authors seriouslyfirst, if you search for pretty much

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

Quarter of people may already be immune to coronavirus..I’m delighted that mainstream newspapers are picking up on ‘prior immunity’. It’s a lot more than 25%, arguably >50%. 1st paper MID-APRIL!!

Heidi N. Moore

moorehn

This, like wearing masks, is the exact opposite of what the CDC was saying two months ago.https://twitter.com/markberman/status/1263811822630637569 There is a temptation to think "oh well, we know so little." And