Eric Topol
Twitter Web App : Different #SARSCoV2 strains havent yet had a major impact on the course of the pandemic—but they might in the future.—Ewen Callaway, September 10, 2020
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Twitter Web App : Different #SARSCoV2 strains havent yet had a major impact on the course of the pandemic—but they might in the future.—Ewen Callaway, September 10, 2020
media.nature.com/original/magaz… @Nature
Twitter Web App : The richest country in the world is also the leader in flying blind; keep writing new chapters
Twitter Web App : A B.1.1.7 outbreak in Ontario, Canada
Covid cases:
127 nursing home residents
84 staff
21 household contacts
32 deaths
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Twitter Web App : Ian Holmes Agree, of course. That's why I stipulated 30K
Twitter Web App : John Pulice No.
HIV ~9,000
Influenza ~15,000
Polio ~7,500
Twitter Web App : Never has a creature with 30,000 letters done so much damage.
Or has science and medical research responded with such speed and success to take it on.
Twitter Web App : 3+ weeks later, the answer is no.
But it's still not too late twitter.com/EricTopol/stat…
Twitter Web App : This is not correct. SARS-CoV-2 is nothing like influenza virus from a virological or evolutionary standpoint.
A short thread on some big differences: twitter.com/DrTomFrieden/s…
Twitter Web App : Excellent new primer on B cell memory to counter covid-19, with sterilization vs protective immunity , rationale for 2 doses of vaccine cell.com/immunity/fullt… Immunity Immunology MonashUni Monash University
Twitter Web App : The G Word: our new #sciencepodcast on all things #genomics. Not something you think you'll be interest in? Have a listen - you'll be surprised at how genomics is beginning to play a much bigger role in our #healthcare. @chris_wigley
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Twitter Web App : Tips for B.1.1.7 prep Fast Company
fastcompany.com/90597156/how-t… by Suresh Dhaniyala and Byron Erath Clarkson University
Twitter Web App : Dan Greenberg twitter.com/EricTopol/stat…
Twitter Web App : Kris Siegel Molly Jong-Fast🏡 U.S. Postal Service) 's Twitter Profile">U.S. Postal Service Right 650 million masks set to go out in April by U.S. Postal Service) 's Twitter Profile">U.S. Postal Service but killed by Trump
Twitter Web App : Profiling a whole new leadership look on masks, yet w/ residual remarkable resistance from the prior anti-science administration.
I'd like to see Biden use the Defense Production act to get N95s made and distribute to all Americans ASAP to deal with the next chapter, B.1.1.7 twitter.com/MollyJongFast/…
Twitter Web App : Thank God. twitter.com/erictopol/stat…
Twitter Web App : Too many people dont understand the gravity and frequency of #LongCovid. Thanks NYT Magazine Moises Velasquez-Manoff and Laura M. Holson for spotlighting this through long haulers and your own experience
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Twitter Web App : Before the emergence of superspreader #SARSCoV2 strains, 2 million/day might have worked
Now we need ≥3 million/day
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Twitter Web App : Through increased mitigation efforts and vaccination (particularly Israel) the UK, Ireland, and Israel are in case descent, achieving containment. Not yet in Portugal
Twitter Web App : Countries where B.1.1.7 has become dominant, deaths per million people Our World in Data
Twitter Web App : That so many ~polio~ infections are asymptomatic should have been part of the science communications around COVID-19 earlier.
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