#Viruses

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

Some thoughts:- It's still too early to measure the duration and frequency of long-term complications for a new virus, but early evidence suggests they could be important.https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/covid-19-coron

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Over the last weeks, a substantial amount of new evidence has become available about immunity to #SARSCoV2. This information can be difficult to process and integrate. As such I felt

Dr Benjamin 'Ward Viking' Janaway 💙

drjanaway

It is likely next week we will return to #lockdown, and with it we lose certain freedoms. Many feel angry and betrayed, many others scared. But let's stop for a

Laura Elliott

TinyWriterLaura

i missed this article a couple of weeks ago, and i am now caught in that strange space between empathy, and a scream of such frustration that it’s too big

Dan Kaszeta

DanKaszeta

Ok. Time for a Captain Dan thread on a useful and timely subject. Let’s address this “Masks don’t work” argument that people are making. Lots of misinformation and disinformation are

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

NEW!!! So. we've all been hearing stories of reinfection with the coronavirus. And they're alarming. But they are just that--stories, without solid evidence. It may seem like this virus is

Julie Rehmeyer

julierehmeyer

It's been 13 months since my craniocervical fusion surgery and 7 months since my tethered cord surgery. My diagnoses were craniocervical instability, tethered cord, ME/CFS, MCAS, POTS, and mold illness

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

I’m feeling really cross this evening. We wouldn’t need to be mucking about with thresholds & AI systems & getting into unseemly squabbles about the reliability of PCR mass testing

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

If you’ve seen this before it’ll probably be in the context of one of those ‘Fact Check’ pieces.If you haven’t, the bottom line is asymptomatic transmission is a lie. Just

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

New preprint on #SARSCoV2 adaptation to transmission in minks. We identify a set of mutations that have been acquired multiple times in strains circulating in mink farms, and that are

local witch frand

kingdomofwench

Okay that "WE HAD THE VACCINE THE ENTIRE TIME" headline... decent article, shitty, shitty headline Yes, Moderna came up with a vaccine candidate literal days after the SARS-CoV-2 genome was

David Hamilton

davidghamilton1

Tasmanian devil news! A new study by @AustinHPatton in @ScienceMagazine (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6522/eabb9772) investigates the genetic makeup of devil facial tumour disease through time, finding that it has shifted from

Yardley Yeadon

MichaelYeadon3

Blair is urging world govts to massively increase testing both in scale & frequency everyone & often. This is preposterous. Those with a good knowledge of immunology know with a

Jason Abaluck

Jabaluck

My experience was:a) The med community was *terrible* on masks as of late March -- people I spoke with insisted, "We can't recommend something that wouldn't be approved by the

Griselda 🤎

DominicanBandit

This is a thread about basic Computer & Cell phone knowledge everyone should have Let’s get it:1) Restart your phone once a week.Why: Restarting the operating system of your android/iPhone

Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓

BillyBostickson

1. TMEM41B - SARS-COV-2 - EAST ASIANS?TMEM41B transmembrane protein is a critical factor for SARS-CoV-2 replicationhttps://www.news-medical.net/news/20201210/Study-TMEM41B-transmembrane-protein-is-a-critical-factor-for-SARS-CoV-2-replicatio

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