#Mers

1. Because of risks and public health concerns, the Obama administration had banned (in October 2014), federal funding on efforts to weaponize three viruses – influenza, MERS, and SARS. Trump
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I have been meaning to do a thread detailing @mvankerkhove & @DrMikeRyan's response to a question at the 13 April #COVID19 press briefing re: criticisms that @WHO was late to
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Have been getting asked a lot about whether its safe for President Trump and VP Biden to debate in person on October 15.So here are some thoughts.Bottom line: depends on
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La historia de las pandemias:La peste antonina, 165-180 D. C., conocida también como la plaga de Galeno,​ porque fue este famoso médico quien la describió (viruela​ o sarampión?) Mató a
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(1/5) There is this rhetoric going around in legal as well as non-legal circles all over the world that China should pay for the COVID-19 pandemic. In the past few
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le Pr Raoult a une fois de plus affirmé que la transmission du SARS s effectue principalement par les mains (et les vêtements précédemment). C est faux. Voici donc quelques
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1954 : Walt Disney Productions sort 20.000 lieux sous les mers, basé sur l’œuvre de Jules Verne. Gros budget. Énorme succès. Déclinaison dans les parcs 1955 : pour enrichir
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CHINA HAS BEEN THE CENTER OFVIRUSES SINCE MERS, SARS, EBOLAAND CORONA VIRUS...WHEN EBOLA OUTBREAK IN CONGOI WAS monitoring this. WonderedWhy it took World Health Organization.So long to make it an
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One of the things I love about my job is that I learn so many new things with every story. That was particularly true in my reporting for this story
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The smallest thing that we can see with a 'light' microscope is about 500 nanometers. A nanometer is one-billionth (that's 1,000,000,000th) of a meter. So the smallest thing that you
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Recently, I’ve come to think we are quite LUCKY, in fact, with COVID-19 – because, although it’s quite transmissible, it could indeed have been much deadlier. There's no reason it
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Why is PPE considered first for medical personnel?It should be considered first for the massive labor force that should be reallocated to making more PPE. That way the medical personnel
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World Economic Forum: "Lockdown is the world's biggest #psychological #experiment - & we will pay the price"Apr 9 2020 "With some 2.6 billion people around the world in some kind
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In response to the US republicans and Trump making facts political, here's a timeline of the actual @WHO COVID-19 response from December 2019 to late February 2020. Feel free to
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A thread on promoting ridiculous assumptions & dangerous rhetoric from a non-scientist/medicCoronavirus is a global pandemic & that is why nations should listen to the global authority on epidemics -
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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
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