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Recent preprint reporting that 24/24 (100%) people form Singapore infected by SARS-1 in 2003 have pre-existing T-cell immunity against #SARSCoV2, but more surprisingly 9/18 (50%) with no exposure to SARS-1

The lack of a resurgence in #COVID19 cases following the easing of lockdowns in several countries is intriguing. I'll take Switzerland as an example. The lockdown ended on May 11

I came to the UK some 20 years ago as a young scientist during the early Blair government years. Things weren't perfect then but, to me, there was a sense

There have been claims that #COVID19 has acquired mutations leading to more transmissible strains. We formally tested whether this was the case using 15,000 #SARSCoV2 genomes from all over the

I felt it may worthwhile writing a mini thread about #COVID19 immunity following infection to provide some context to the WHO 'immunity passport' statement and its rapid clarification/retraction.(1/5)https://twitter.com/WHO/status/12541609378

I'm seeing a lot of claims, including from colleagues, that the UK Gov intentionally tried to kill a fraction of the population with a nefarious #COVID19 'herd immunity' experiment. This

For something different, and a bit puzzling ..."This preliminary analysis does not support the argument that current smoking is a risk factor for hospitalization for COVID-19. Instead, (...) nicotine may

The report by the ‘Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team’ has been released on March 16th (https://tinyurl.com/tcdy42y ). Now that things have calmed down a bit, I felt I should produce a

This paper is extraordinary, and not for its contribution to human knowledge. It epitomises many things that are deeply wrong with academia. It actually makes me feel a bit dirty

Whatever the UK Gov #COVID19 strategy might be, mass testing for infection only works together with 'contact tracing' in the early stages of an outbreak, and not in the face