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13 May, 5 tweets, 5 min read
Reading: Investigate the origins of COVID-19 science.sciencemag.org/content/372/65…
Pretty well balanced letter here from @jbloom_lab, @Ayjchan @Baric_Lab @bjorkmanlab @sarahcobey @DevermanLab @DFisman @GuptaR_lab @VirusesImmunity @mlipsitch @RMedzhitov @richardneher @ras_nielsen @StearnsLab @NimwegenLab @MichaelWorobey @DavidRelman et al.
See thread from @jbloom_lab about it here
And thread from @Ayjchan about it here
I particularly like the comment about anti-Asian sentiment at the end Finally, in this time of un...

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14 May
I am with @kprather88 here. Really vexed by what @CDCDirector and @CDCgov have done here. I mean, I get the general idea of trying to return to normal and encourage vaccination. But here are some thoughts for why I am still a bit vexed.
1) The vaccines are not fully effective. Therefore, some people who are vaccinated can still get sick, and die. And for some of the vaccines, the percentage of people protected is not insanely high.
2) Some vaccinated people can also still carry and transmit the virus.
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7 May
So I just got through reading this article on origins of #COVID19 and have one aspect I want to discuss.

The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan? - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-or… via @BulletinAtomic 1/n
First, I want to say, as I have said many times before, that I think working on the origins and trying to figure out if it came from a lab in some way or from "nature" is an important research area and I think the answer is still not resolved 2/n
And there are a lot of pieces to the story that are still muddled and unclear and need more work 3/n
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19 Apr
It was quite warm and sunny today around #DavisCA and alas I did not get out in the AM but managed to head out to #YoloBypass in the early PM. I went on a short walk to a spot I knew would be relatively shady. And along the way saw a few nice things like: 1/n
And then I got to this semi-shady spot with a little water hole and waited. And I was rewarded. First, with an otter swimming by. 2/n
And then what I think was a muskrat waddled by (not 100% sure about the ID). 3/n
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18 Apr
Reading: Health officer urges caution as UK variant cases rise in Yolo County davisenterprise.com/free/health-of… via @AllDENews

Lots of good comments here from Dr. Aimee Sisson of @YoloCountyCA 1/n
"Dr. Aimee Sisson is urging residents to double down on protective measures, including getting tested and vaccinated" - agree with her on this 2/n
"That trouble is in the form of growing numbers of more infectious variants" - yes this should concern people 3/n
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7 Apr
Reading: Children now playing 'huge role' in spread of COVID-19 variant, expert says abc7chicago.com/health/kids-no… via @abc7chicago
Given this, it is really ridiculous that schools are reopening all over the country but many, including those in my town #DavisCA (the @DJUSD) are not going to require testing. We have to have all the kids being tested regularly on top of doing other measures to limit spread
Attention @GavinNewsom @DJUSDSuptBowes - I really don't care what the excuses are, the only way we keep a lid on things in schools is if we know what is going on, and the only way we know what is going on is via testing
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6 Apr
Important information for those at @ucdavis and in #DavisCA and nearby:

Coronavirus B.1.351 Variant (sometimes called the South Africa variant) Confirmed in Yolo County ucdavis.edu/news/detection…
Initially flagged in a positive sample by genotyping at @genomecenter, sample was then sequenced and sequence analysis confirmed it being assigned to the B.1.351 variant group (and, well, that is what I was working on all weekend so there you go ...)
See also sacbee.com/news/local/hea… in the @sacbee_news
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