#Pathogen

Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician)

jeremyfaust

Q: Why have so many SARS-CoV-2 models failed?A: Failure to account for asymptomatic spread.My collaborators @biomathematicus+@JacobBAguilar are among the world's great minds on this.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.18.200

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) Authorities confirmed Monday what many suspected: Montreal is now in a second wave with 53 #COVID19 outbreaks. In this thread, I’ll call for more restrictions to lower viral transmission

The Ferrari Lab

TheFerrariLab

Been reflecting on these slides from 2015 on the uncertainty of elimination - populations are rarely in a infection free regime – dynamics are described by “effective reproduction number” (R)

Mike Coudrey

MichaelCoudrey

NEW RESEARCH: COVID-19 is causing prolonged & progressive hypoxia (starving your body of oxygen) by binding to the heme groups in hemoglobin in your red blood cells.Patients are progressively desaturating

Seva

SevaUT

I think we really need to distinguish between failures of the liberal order, which are clearly on display, and failures of liberal democracy, which are much less so at the

Michal Tal

ImmunoFever

1/nThere are many things about my paper that just came out today in mBio that I would like to share with you all, both about the science, and about the

Dylan Morris

dylanhmorris

You've heard a lot about "flattening the curve". @fernpizza, @jplotkin, Simon Levin, and I have a new preprint showing you the (provably!) most efficient way to do it! But as

Matthew Cortland, Esq

mattbc

Friends,This isn't how science works. If there has actually been a "major therapeutic breakthrough" on the SARS-CoV-2 #coronavirus* it would be subjected to the scrutiny of the scientific community. We

Padmini Pillai

padminipillai

As the elderly are more susceptible to #COVID19 w/ signs of lung #inflammation, here's a thread about our @virusesimmunity 2016 flu paper on #antiviral resistance, excessive lung #inflammation, & a

Caroline Stocks

Caroline_Stocks

American chickens. A thread.I’ve been working in the US for the past six months, and over that time I’ve talked a LOT about chlorinated chicken. Here are some of the

Rory Gibb

roryjgibb

Our paper showing global and general effects of land use on zoonotic host communities is out today in @nature! There’s quite a lot in the paper, so I thought I’d

Clive Bates

Clive_Bates

1/12 @FDATobacco has failed as a regulator for vaping products. Given most products are similar, @FDATobacco FDA could have set up a standardised form. It could even have populated it

Felix Key

fm_key

I am excited to share our new paper about the emergence of human-adapted Salmonella enterica linked to the Neolithization process. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1106-9Find below a summary of the main findings in a

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) Montreal posted 29 new #COVID cases Tuesday even though Quebec is screening far fewer people for the #pandemic illness. In contrast, Toronto recorded five cases as Ontario tests three

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

On July 25th a paper came out suggesting that 60% of #COVID19 patients might experience myocardial inflammation. Such extensive sequelae would have been extremely concerning and the paper was understandably

💉💉 Dr. Trey is Vaccinated

Comparativist

Korea’s CFR just jumped to 2%. Pre-lockdown Wuhan R0 was just estimated by CDC to be 5.7. It’s very likely this burned through the US at 3.5 to 5.7 before