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5 Oct, 3 tweets, 1 min read
Breaking: Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to 3 scientists who discovered Hepatitis C virus. Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice were jointly honored for their “decisive contribution to the fight against blood-borne hepatitis.” #NobelPrize2020
2) The trio “made a decisive contribution to the fight against blood-borne hepatitis, a major global health problem that causes cirrhosis and liver cancer in people around the world”
3) link to prize announcement

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7 Oct
📍TROUBLING. “Danny Altmann, professor of immunology at Imperial, guesses recovered patients from #COVID19 have perhaps 90% protection for a “fair while”. But how long? “I would bet my house on you being safe for possibly a year but not much longer” 🧵 theguardian.com/world/2020/oct…
2) “The problem is that whenever an immunologist says anything about Covid immunity to a journalist, it’s right for about two weeks and then it’s completely wrong.”
3) “It’s really hard to find a pattern right now,” said Akiko Iwasaki, @VirusesImmunity, a professor of immunobiology at Yale University who has been following cases of reinfection closely. “Essentially every case is different.”
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6 Oct
BREAKING—Now VP Pence’s team is breaking earlier agreement and now *refusing* even a transparent plexiglass divider for the VP debate!

Earlier Monday, Commission on Presidential Debates said dividers had been agreed to as a safety measure for #COVID19. washingtonpost.com/politics/vp-de…
2) Two words: AIRBORNE TRANSMISSION!

Detailed thread 🧵 below on all things aerosols. #COVID19
3) Just leaving this here.
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6 Oct
Update—33 positive WH-orbit #COVID19 cases. *2 New:

D Trump
M Trump
*2x military aides to DJT
K McEnany
K Leavitt
C Gilmartin
G Laurie
H Hicks
K Conway
C Christie
M Lee
T Tillis
R Johnson
R McDaniel
J Jenkins
B Stepien
N Luna
1x WH jr staffer
3x reporters
11x Ohio debate staff Image
2) The reason they are appearing now is the incubation period, typically 5-6 days but can be 2-14, up to 21 days.

(Note: 2 other WH residence staff tested positives weeks ago; Claudia C not a first degree exposure). Image
3) And indeed, you can be INFECTIOUS even before you either show symptoms or before you test positive, which has maximum test positive likelihood when you first show symptoms. But you can be contagious before before any of these. Image
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6 Oct
BREAKING—Twitter has now also slapped a warning ⛔️ label against Trump’s tweet for #COVID19 misinformation. Facebook just did as well this morning. #TrumpCovid19 Image
2) Earlier FB blocked Trump’s tweet too.
3) Here was my earlier fact check tweet.
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6 Oct
BREAKING—holy crap—Trump WH is now blocking the FDA proposed guidelines for the emergency release of a coronavirus vaccine. Basically WH has vetoed tougher safety/efficacy standards for a vaccine! #COVID19 🧵 (repost) nytimes.com/2020/10/05/us/…
2) Essentially, FDA had inserted a vaccine minimum efficacy standards that would have almost certainly guaranteed that no vaccine could be authorized before the election on Nov. 3... but now Trump WH has now OVERRULED & BLOCKED it. Thereby Trump HHS now has no such restrictions.
3) “The conflict began almost as soon as the Food and Drug Administration submitted the guidelines to the White House budget office on Monday, Sept. 21. The next day, Dr. Stephen M. Hahn, the F.D.A. commissioner, briefed Mr. Azar on the matter.”
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5 Oct
AIRBORNE—at long last—the CDC just finally acknowledges that people can be infected with #COVID19 through aerosol airborne transmission, especially indoors with inadequate ventilation.

➡️this is HUGE and been long delayed. But glad it’s now CDC official. washingtonpost.com/health/2020/10…
2) This follows Dr Fauci recognized this thanks to the direct advocacy aerosol experts @kprather88 along with a host of aerosol scientists @Don_Milton @CorsIAQ @jljcolorado @linseymarr @ShellyMBoulder, along with @FAScientists advocacy of @AliNouriPhD @mykfish et al. 🧵 below.
3) And indeed all the evidence lines up for aerosols. In fact, @jljcolorado and many others think aerosol is likely the predominant form of #COVID19 transmission. Image
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