#Viruses

Monsieur Prepuce 🕯🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺⚫

MPrepuce

Thread.I’m getting some questions about COVID & vaccines, largely around dosing & new variants. I’ll offer some thoughts here, from a virologist’s perspective.Using 1 dose of a vaccine, and providing

Carly Weeks

carlyweeks

Is #COVID19 airborne? A contentious debate that flared up this week after 239 scientists (inc. 10 Cdns) signed a letter asking health bodies to recognize the potential. I wrote about

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GreyTonka

This inappropriate human leaves for airport in 22 hrs!Screw tradition.Make new ones. I told my electrician I am leaving for a trip. He says Whattttt? But Covid.COVID does not exist.Neither

Danny Boy

Care2much18

€5 fine paid to charity for the use of "truely".Jokes aside, this is one of the most impressive statements I've ever seen, if the goal was to fit as many

National Geographic

NatGeo

Join @MoNscience for our next #COVID19 Q&A today at 1pm ET. Leave your questions below and stay tuned for answershttps://on.natgeo.com/3iWDXYX That’s an interesting question—and one that’s created some public confusion.As

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

On the question of how mink outbreaks can impact vaccines, antibody therapeutics, or diagnostics. How realistic is this concern?The idea is that SARS2 spreading and adapting in large populations of

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durofejo

Fading Puppy Syndrome (FPS) is a term used to refer to a condition in puppies where they refuse to thrive & die within the first 2 to 3 weeks of

Coceka Mfundisi

Cmfundisi

A thread! On immunity.I realise that we cannot tire and lose patience educating people about #COVID19inSA because if we do, those loud and popular will exploit the gap and feed

Eric Topol

EricTopol

1. A year ago the first person with asymptomatic covid was documented. My colleague @danieloran culled the data from 61 studies, 1.8 million people to determine how often this occurs.

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

The recent Novavax vaccine trial reported lower efficacy in its SA arm. This is plausibly caused, at least in part, by the high frequency of the B 1.351 lineage in

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GreyTonka

I saw something the other day I thought was interesting. Someone saying all virus pics are not virus pics at all.So I started to look into it. This 1st image

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Huge—the #SARSCoV2 coronavirus was identified in a 4 year old in Milan in November 2019, and had *no travel history*. They retested it again and again to make sure.

Mac n’ Chise 🧬🧫🦠

sailorrooscout

Concerning the SARS-CoV-2 variants that were first identified in the UK (B.1.1.7), South Africa (B.1.351), and Brazil (P.1), their specific mutations focus on altering the fitness of the virus by

Dr Benjamin 'Ward Viking' Janaway 💙

drjanaway

#COVID19 Mythbuster thread. Holy shit, get a cup of tea. Let's break these apart. I will take each common myth and address the evidence and provide an explanation. Feel free

Hannah Davis 🦈

ahandvanish

This is an interesting #LongCOVID theory - that there is persistent brainstem dysfunction (likely in tangent with other immune issues like immune dysregulation, reactivation of other viruses, onset of autoimmune

ReReadQ - #beNotAfraid

DigMemePray

THE MORE YOU KNOW - PCR Cycle Thresholds (CTs)1) PCR test is "gold standard" Covid test2) PCR test "amplifies tiny amounts of DNA material to become large enough to be

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