#Pathogen

Dylan Morris

dylanhmorris

New preprint on how temperature and humidity affect the infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses. Key finding: the virus remains infectious longer at low temperatures and extreme relative humidities.https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.16.

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

What is "fatality" of COVID19? Still lots of confusion out there about case fatality rate (CFR) and infection fatality rate (IFR). One is what you want to know but almost

Alasdair Munro

apsmunro

There has never been more confusion about the role of children in transmission of #SARSCoV2 , and tensions are running high over implications for #schoolsreopeningTime for some clarity@Damian_Roland and I

Columbia Surgery

ColumbiaSurgery

Donna Farber is an immunologist who studies the immune response to respiratory viruses, lung immunity, and human immunology. The COVID-19 and Immunology webinar starts now! Follow along #FarberCOVID19 COVID-19 symptom

Kevin K. Chung, MD

chungk1031

I am giving a talk on "SARS-CoV-2 testing and Immunity" this week. Thought it would make a good #Tweetorial.Thread/ First testing.You can categorize testing as follows:Pathogen based (test for presence

Katherine Cross

Quinnae_Moon

I've thought a lot about what the proper role of sociologists is amidst this crisis. This thread identifies a few possibilities but it misses the mark by seeming to downplay

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Check out this very cool study from @casanova_lab hot off the press at @ScienceMagazine.It shows that very severe #COVID19 is associated with auto-antibodies against type I interferons.https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/09/23

David Wallace-Wells

dwallacewells

"We are now almost six months into this pandemic, which began in November in Wuhan, with 50,000 Americans dead and 200,000 more around the world. And yet we still don't

liz chatterjee

natterjee

New lockdown hobby: perusing the #envhist of pandemics. In honour of Passover, first up is Rinderpest—likely one of the 10 biblical plagues. This nasty little pathogen killed huge numbers of

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

Looking for badly misleading #COVID19 serology data?New paper in top journal http://thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30631-9/fulltext & new online tool: http://serotracker.com/Dashboard I *hope* it will get be

ALLI 🇸🇪

AlliNutrition

ZINC:A POWERFUL & NECESSARY mineral for human healthRead on to discover its ancestral benefits, hermano.- Thread - Yeah Magnesium relaxes youIodine supports your thyroidSelenium the liverBut... Zinc?Besides immunity & T,

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

As a virologist, I find it deeply concerning that some are proposing to expose healthy people to low doses of #COVID19 to make them immune. The public should know that,

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ThreadsIrish

1. Who Is Irishman Dr Mike Ryan, The Executive Director Of The World Health Organisation ? 1/21Many of you will be familiar with Dr Ryan. He has frequently appeared

cathyfoxblog

CathyCathyFox

1. #Coronavirus thread - Forget partisan politics, research and follow truth. If you dont follow truth you will end up making wrong conclusionsMULTIPLE NATIONS SUGGEST CORONAVIRUS ORIGINATED IN AMERICA —

ResearcHers Code

ResearcHersCode

First of all: about me and my background! I am an alumna of @IowaStateU (Genetics, 2007) and worked in genetics and microbiology research @ISUVetMed We looked at the spread of

Babaolowo is Zaddy

TheEnyola

Is 5G tower installation connected with the spread of Covid-19?This was the question that danced through my mind as I listened to various audios messages currently in circulation, buttressing the