#Variants

Hijab in the OR • دينا

HijabInTheOR_

Let’s talk medical apartheid, a thread 1/n Israel has administered nearly 10.5 million doses to its population. Nearly 60% of its entire population have received both doses. Meanwhile, Palestine administered

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

Here's a fact check and of the daily briefing today. Is the govt actually following the data, or even presenting the data accurately?TL;DR: The reality is in stark contrast to

Andrew Cornwell

ascornwell1

Ok twitter - the facts on wet markets from a vet. Keeping different species together in close proximity is dangerous. 1. Pigs and chicken should never be kept next to

Alexandre Bolze

alexbolze

1/ Thread on the first 2 papers from the COVIDhge consortium (with my small contribution). The 2 studies show that genetic variants & auto-immunity to type 1 interferons explain 10-15%

Kurt Eichenwald

kurteichenwald

Lots of dems are missing one major fact on fears about overruling Roe V Wade: Abortion cant be outlawed. A court could only ALLOW a state to outlaw it. So,

The Veesler Lab

veeslerlab

We discovered a broadly neutralizing sarbecovirus monoclonal antibody (mAb) in collaboration with @DavideCorti6 & Matteo Samuele PizzutoLed by @aletortorici Nadine Czudnochowski, @tylernstarr & Roberta Marzi1/10https://www.biorxiv.o

Pete Kraft

GENES_PK

As a genetic epidemiologist who has helped develop polygenic risk scores (PRS) for common, multifactoral diseases, I have... thoughts on the launch of a company to provide pre-pregnancy counseling &

SandboxEscaper

SandboxBear

Things I learned, being a highschool dropout, getting into vuln research and getting job at Microsoft:1. Force yourself to watch/read (whatever works best) all the really technical stuff. Even if

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

Globally, the end of the pandemic isn't near.More than a million lives depend on improving our response quickly.Don’t be blinded by the light at the end of the tunnel. There

Bill Blair

BillBlair

On May 1st, our government banned over 1,500 types and variants of assault-style weapons in . The strong action we've taken will lower the number of guns designed for the

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

So looks like the govt has finally designated B.1.617.2 (so-called 'Indian variant' a VOC- the PHE appears to have designated that the risk to the public is 'high', but the

Meaghan Kall

kallmemeg

The @PHE_uk Variant Technical Briefing 10 now published Confirms B.1.617.2 upgraded to a VOC due to transmissibility concerns (at least as infectious as B.1.1.7) and steep rises in case numbershttps://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/govern

AlainCo #JeSuisPrometheen

alain_co

Je vais lancer un thread, sur ma vision de la suite #covid19... avis éclairés bienvenus, parce que moi, je suis juste une oreille...@cfhinor @ScornDes @BioHospitalix Initialement j'étais plutot team #ZeroCovid,

Maneesh

Maneesh312

We know these are desperate times and everyone wants to do everything within their abilities to save their people. But, convalescent plasma should be avoided by all means now, as

Alison M. Vacca

medievalqabq

I love this iconic image of Sasunc‘i Davit‘, one of the main heroes of the Armenian epic Sasna Cṙer. The epic covers 4 generations from the Islamic conquests to the

Indranil Roy

Indrani1_Roy

Introducing STAR. This is the first implementation of the Liquid Fuel Ramjet (LFRJ) engine. STAR stands for Supersonic TARget. This will be surface launched (with a booster) and will serve