#Pathogen

Jason Crawford

jasoncrawford

The 300-year history of vaccines as app updates: ~1720v0.1 (beta): InoculationFeatures:• Grants immunity• Usually doesn't kill youKnown bugs:• Mild disease symptoms• You're still contagious and can start an outbreakSupported

Ⓥ𝚎𝚐𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚌

vegix

If you think Trump is faking being ill, you may want to ask yourself why he'd fake the biggest crisis of his presidency right before an election where he's polling

Jeremy PLEASE WEAR MASKS! Konyndyk

JeremyKonyndyk

Since this video has been blowing up, I thought it might be useful to annotate some of the analysis. Here are the receipts.https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1245720391168995329 On the policy lessons we took from

(((Edelweißpirat))) guter Unruhestifter

crandallgold

A thread on the folly of "herd immunity" which I need to get off my chest:To begin, herd immunity by natural exposure to a pathogen is not a strategy to

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

A coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patient with bilateral orchitis: A case reporthttps://www.ajemjournal.com/article/S0735-6757(20)30761-0/fulltext#.X0pjOGKLn6A.twitter Here is an analogous case study in SARShttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

drsanjaygupta

The @WHO recently announced that there are at least six Covid-19 vaccines in clinical trials. That’s encouraging, but these trials normally take years or decades to complete. We’ll go into

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

I need the scientists+editors who are directly or indirectly covering up severe research integrity issues surrounding some of the key SARS2-like viruses to stop and think for a bit.If your

Trump is dumber than a rock. Official.

trumpfarts1

@jimtankersley @CNN @maddow @jaketapper @guardian @Independent @chrislhayes @andersoncooper @ChrisCuomoTen days ago I asked why no one was asking aboutThe Whitehouse report on Pandemic influenza from Sept152019 It contained chilling moments

Deeply Credentialed Yuga

MelancholyYuga

Imagine an FDA that did two things:1) Verify that goods actually contain all and only what the labels say2) Make recommendations ranging from "knock yourself out" to "you will definitely

Dr. Andrea Conroy 🌍🦟🔬

AndreaLConroy

Our paper looking at #malaria in Ugandan blood donors is out in Transfusion. We tested 1000 samples from two sites in Uganda and found 15.4% of asymptomatic blood donors had

Dr. Swapneil Parikh

swapneilparikh

Several months ago #TheCoronavirusBook discussed the false dichotomy between droplet and aerosol transmission. “Some nuance can be lost in the oversimplified false dichotomy of airborne versus droplet transmission; they are

Financial Bounty Hunters USA

LWDoyleUSA

(1/6) Get Dr. Fauci back in here. While, we're at it, get Dr. Chris Elias of @gatesfoundation in here as well. Both Fauci and Elias are on the board of

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

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

Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓

BillyBostickson

Don't forget that before EIDITH...there was PROPHECY!" Phase III will to attempt to replicate in a laboratory the viral mutations or evolutions that are documented to have occurred naturally."https://www.darpa.mil/program/prop

Rachel Wattier

RachelWattier

#PedsTID #IDWeek2020 Exploring Viral Infections in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplantation Through a New Lens Dr. Klara Posfay-Barbe @posfay "The Time Has Come: Bringing Live Viral Vaccination into the Post-transplant period

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

Flu pandemics recur reliably but unpredictably every decade or so, and their extent and intensity varies. With COVID19, we may be in midst of a once-every-50-years event, perhaps similar to