#Pathogen

David Steensma

DavidSteensma

Have been attending on inpatient service @BrighamWomens @DanaFarber this month, and on a #COVID19 "Special Pathogen Team" this past week. Amazing camaraderie and esprit de corps, really proud of these

James Doeser

jamesdoeser

As some of you know I spent much of 2019 working with a Wellcome Trust project called Contagious Cities https://wellcome.ac.uk/what-we-do/our-work/contagious-cities As you can imagine I've been thinking about whether to

uphold shi zhiyong thought 🇨🇳 🐙

koaleszenz

the "herd immunity" threshold for COVID-19 is probably around 60% of the population. no country is anywhere near this."herd immunity" is not a magical concept. let's talk about what it

Vijay Mahajan

thevijaymahajan

How #WHO and #China scr@wed the world1st cases of #COVID19 cases appeared in China in Nov-19. For atleast 6 weeks the local GOVT didn’t even recognise it.When people started dying

Adam Lawton 🧪

DrAdamLawton

LAWTON'S 21 DAY IMMUNITY PLAN:Don't buy that idiot quack's cashgrab book. Select a doughnut, sit back and relax, whilst I show you how to build immunity in 21 days FOR

Ross Tucker

Scienceofsport

So, yesterday I shared with you a presentation I made on #immune function & exercise, and then on detraining & fitness during #lockdown. How much, how fast, how to prevent

The Black Emma Frost (Read Pinned Tweet)

iwritecoolstuff

'You're a practicing psychotherapist. Can you define "mental illness"?No. Nobody can.The DSM lists "disorders." How are disorders different from diseases or illnesses?The difference between disease and disorder i

DocBurke

burke_doc

We are being inundated with questions regarding COVID-19 antibody testing (blood test) and "Immunity Passports". - This is an evolving science but to understand the potential benefits we must understand

Linsey Marr

linseymarr

Nearly tears of joy seeing new paper in medical journal with correct analysis and interpretation of aerosol transmission: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30323-4/fulltext See thread for summary of main poi

Efra Rivera-Serrano, PhD

NakedCapsid

1/ALRIGHT, by popular demand, it is time for your local virologist to do a thread on “what is a virus”?There is a lot of info (and mis-information) out there, so

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

You know people -- maybe you're one of them -- who were sick with Covid, but tested negative for antibodies. Why would that be? Blame the tests. They miss antibodies

Aaron Derfel

Aaron_Derfel

1) Since the start of the school year, the two demographics that have been observing the sharpest percentage increases in positive #COVID19 test results are elementary and high school students,

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

People who disagree with my take on (hydroxychloroquine/masks/Trump/whatever) looooove quote tweeting this back at me, presumably to underscore that I was WRONG and lack credibility. So I’d like to take

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

New: National alert in UK on #COVID19 in kids: “There is growing concern that a [covid-19] related inflammatory syndrome is emerging in children in the UK, or that there may

David Fisman

DFisman

Canada lost its Covid vaccine under the FIPPA pushed through by PM Harper.Political journalists: you want a scandal?Here’s your scandal.https://canadians.org/fipa-info IMO this isn't the biggest Canadian vaccine fail. 10 years

Mike Batz

mbbatz

While we were hiking down a hill yesterday, my son cut through some switchbacks as a shortcut. I told him that he shouldn't do that, and I pointed to a