#Pathogen

Dr. Andrew Kniss 🌱

WyoWeeds

One of the things that interests me most about weeds is the seeds. Weed seeds are a pain in the ass. Most weeds produce a LOT of seeds. Thousands. Hundreds

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

You can't spread or transmit Covid19, you can only spread or transmit SARSCoV2 if symptomatic. Whether SARSCoV2 becomes symptomatic or even severe Covid19 in someone else depends on their Vitamin

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

Seeing papers make the rounds that the herd immunity threshold may be much lower than the rough approximation 1-1/R0. Maybe, but let's slow down a minute.#1. There is still way

KizzyPhD

KizzyPhD

Our (co-inventors @McLellan_Lab) COVID-19 vaccine (spike delivered by @moderna_tx's mRNA) was just injected into the 1st human in phase 1 trial, only 66 days after viral sequence release... a testament

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

New perspectives piece in ⁦@NatureCommsWonder what all these scientists could be talking about...⁩“actors may be incentivized to be reckless if they believe they are unlikely to be held accountable for

Infectious Disease Ethics

ID_ethics

Terminology thread:rate ≠ riskinfection ≠ diseasequarantine ≠ isolationsocial distancing ≠ physical distancingprolonged PCR positivity ≠ sheddingvirulence ≠ transmissibility References to follow 1/ rate ≠ riskA risk is a proba

Farid Jalali MD

farid__jalali

Pediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome of COVID19 is also a "platelet hyperactivation syndrome", just like Kawasaki's Disease is.The underlying pathophysiology is:Half of circulating platelet biogenesis occurs in lungs fr

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

With all the breaking news on vaccines and variants I’ve barely had a chance to talk about this piece on microbes moving between humans and animals.I think it’s important for

The Seeker

TheSeeker268

A thread on the origins of COVID-19, and a possible bio-containment failure at one of the Wuhan labs. I feel there are facts not enough people know about, so I

Graham Neary

GrahamNeary

If you asked your barber whether you needed a haircut, would you expect an unbiased answer?And what would you expect, if you asked the vaccine industry whether the world needed

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO

Live Q&A on #COVID19 vaccines with @doctorsoumya and @Kate_L_OBrien. #AskWHO https://www.pscp.tv/w/cnqxzzI2MTAyMHwxeW9LTUFSVmpwcEtR2YDwK32_yqRKFMtFRQHQ6D-wRC7qiZSZxEbbRIn0ycU= Our body has many ways of defending itself against pathogens

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

AL 🙂

Metabo_PhD

For all the people that’ve been cleaning their groceries, opening door handles with lysol wipes etc, let’s look at the evidence for the fomite transmission of COVID-19 (& asymptomatic transmission

Andrew C Ahn

AndrewCAhn2

Part 6: COVID and OverdispersionIn Part 5, we talked about epidemiological implications of overdispersion.In this section, we explore potential CAUSES of COVID-19 overdispersion1/https://twitter.com/AndrewCAhn2/status/1344792823204360192 1:

Cillian De Gascun

CillianDeGascun

A short thread on PCR #SARSCoV2 There’s been a lot of discussion recently about the use of PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) for the diagnosis of #SARSCoV2 infection, and the interpretation

Tyler Green

TBG9270584

Vitamins 101A healthy individual has relatively low vitamin needs. However, factors such as stress, silent and chronic inflammation, long-term illness, many types of medication, smoking, pregnancy and breastfeeding, heavy physical

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