#Viral

julia alexander

loudmouthjulia

Joe Rogan is the podcast king. He's also a quintessential YouTube creator with insane success — more than 13M subs (two channels), 5 billion views. His success is a product

Dennis Crowley

dens

Good thread on “contact tracing” apps to slow spread of COVID. Spoiler: thread suggests you need 60% of a population to use it for it to work, aka: 150M+ DAU

Daniil Gorbatenko

Daniilgor

This article summarizes a study that showed that most of the people still testing positive in San Francisco are essential workers. What is interesting, however, is that nothing is mentioned

Tom Forth

thomasforth

So frustrating to see that "England's Covid-19 rate is increasing because more tests are being done" piece go viral over the weekend and this morning. It's a decent piece, and

Onyx🌑

Allanah_Morales

Why are all these Black people mad about Tik Tok being banned??I thought we deleted that app after all the BLM stuff??? Not y’all defending your right to keep using

Rachel Thomas

math_rachel

I took a twitter break for a while, b/c I’d been repeating myself for 2+ years about masks, post-viral disability, etc. My family will be avoiding unmasked, in-person situations for

Adam Stutsman

amstutsman

This is a good thread, Andrew. Thank you.https://twitter.com/aleams/status/1249771139330703363 And not that my, or anyone’s, sexuality is anyone’s business, but if I were to express my “horny feelings” online, it would

Seanan McGuire

seananmcguire

Herd immunity is magical. It's honestly probably the reason we have people, and the degree of stability and civilization we've been able to achieve. It slows the spread of infection,

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

How can we assess the total number of #SARSCoV2 infections that have occurred up to this point? As others have noted, it's not easy to extrapolate from confirmed cases to

Yishan

yishan

This paper appears to yield a number of VERY USEFUL hypotheses and treatment for critical patients if true:https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_Disease_ORF8_and_Surface_Glycoprotein_Inhibit_Heme_Metabolism_by_Binding_to_Porphyrin/11938173(1/n)https

Note To Scene

NoteToScene

Generic metalcore bands who released songs that were actually bangers: A thread For All Those Sleeping “I’m Not Dead Yet”By time FATS got momentum, it was already too late for

Liz Szabo

LizSzabo

Dr. James Bradner tells @MIT course: "We're not remotely out of the woods."Even w/ vaccines, he says we'll need better drugs. There are 770 compounds in development +300 plus in

Mrs. Mercurian ✨

indigostellium

Earth Signs:- Sooo I know a lot of y’all have been thinking about moving soon and tbh, you definitely manifested it, it’s just a matter of when. I’m seeing many

Natalie Buske Thomas

buske_natalie

I mostly sat this one out, because it was clear I'd be attacked. I'm profoundly disappointed that people are still knee-jerk reacting in the ways that corrupt evil elites predict,

Ethan Grey

_EthanGrey

In this thread, I will be discussing the behavior of Donald Trump’s base throughout the viral pandemic—everything from their disdain towards wearing masks to their reluctance to getting vaccinated—but I

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

Some thoughts from planet science at this point in the pandemic. The first thing to note is that science is the exit strategy (@JeremyFarrar's great pithy phrase) - clinical science