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Dr. Angela Rasmussen
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Okay, I'm seeing a lot of "the end is nigh"-type posts as well as a lot of people misunderstanding this story, so let's talk about "pandemic potential" for #influenza viruseshttps://www.bbc.com/news/health-532187
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I've been reluctant to criticize Dr. Deborah Birx because she's the only woman in an overwhelmingly male #coronavirus task force and she has a long history of doing critical work
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It’s always really credible when an #antivaxxer points to a paper as conclusive data (“breaking #science news) using a screenshot of the abstract that cuts off the name of the
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This is a great thread and something I've been thinking about a lot. Discussion about novel virus emergence often implicates an obvious culprit (wildlife trade, research labs), but historically this
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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
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Unqualified self-promoters jumped to exploit the inherent uncertainty in scientific research to pretend at prophecy, that scientists were wrong and they were right because they plowed ahead, unhindered by uncertainty,
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Oh shit. Finally a study is out rigorously quantifying #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #coronavirus in stool. Bad news...there's infectious virus in there. So fecal transmission is possible, but is it happening in
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It's a good thing that actual public health professionals look to data to understand risk rather than a comic strip artist's "strong feelings" about obesity. Shaming people for their health
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This type of reporting on #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #coronavirus makes my blood boil. There is no evidence that the dominant strain is such because it is "more contagious"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-05/mutant-coronavirus-has-e
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New paper shows that smoking cigs increases expression of the #SARSCoV2 receptor ACE2. The idea here is more ACE2, more infection, worse #COVID19.This is a faulty assumption.https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1164/rccm.202003-0693LE#.XqW1P4Cg3FM.
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Yesterday I tweeted criticism of Trump, and I dropped a F bomb. Some have complained in the replies about how this vulgar display of uncontrolled emotion, as well as me
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I had a great exchange with @JeremyKonyndyk about the state department cables reported yesterday by @joshrogin and the credence they supposedly lend to the "lab accident" origin story of #SARSCoV2.
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