He altered findings in line with his bias and the political bias- that is so wrong and disturbing -Words fail me. The consequences of his actions are huge.
Florida surgeon general altered key findings in study on Covid-19 vaccine safety - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/24/florida-surgeon-general-covid-vaccine-00093510
Holy Crap.
If confirmed, we'll have to figure out how to categorize 180,000 newly discovered viruses.
@RNA has called this the "Platinum Age of Virus Discovery"!
"Identification of #RNA viruses is currently limited to those with sequence similarity to a known #virus, such that... the 'dark matter' of the virosphere remains challenging to detect.
We developed a deep learning algorithm [which] integrates both sequence and structural information..."
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.18.537342v1
#virology @virology
Excellent workshop review on #MucosalImmunity and #SarsCoV2 #vaccines really underscores how challenging mucosal vaccines are to develop, and how large the knowledge gaps are.
A useful counterpoint to the loud voices over the last couple of years that implied this was an easy problem and we should already be fielding them.
The Chinese CDC analyses of the Market samples: finally published in Nature.
And now the sequences can be analysed by others....let's see whether this agrees to the presence of pandas at the Market...
Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at the Huanan Seafood Market | Nature
HUGE congrats to @flodebarre , @alexcc , @eddieholmes , @Angie_rasmussen , @rambaut and the other co-authors on this exciting report on #covidorigins #SarsCoV2 #covid #virology #ecology
Genetic evidence of susceptible wildlife in SARS-CoV-2 positive samples at the Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market, Wuhan: Analysis and interpretation of data released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control | Zenodo
Report: Genetic evidence of susceptible wildlife in SARS-CoV-2 positive samples at the Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market, Wuhan: Analysis and interpretation of data released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control
'The genetic data was drawn from swabs taken from in and around the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market starting in January 2020, shortly after the Chinese authorities had shut down the market because of suspicions that it was linked to the outbreak of a new virus. By then, the animals had been cleared out, but researchers swabbed walls, floors, metal cages and carts often used for transporting animal cages.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/science/covid-wuhan-market-raccoon-dogs-lab-leak.html
Really exciting news on #covidorigins, with papers coming on samples connected to animals at the Huanan Market. It's exciting because this question has been raised, repeatedly by @eddieholmes (see interview on post 18) - who explained why it was incredulous that there was no signs of animal DNA in the China CDC reports:
https://mstdn.science/@BenFPiercePhD/109580456449891053
And now we may finally see an answer with direct evidence. Congrats to Eddie, @flodebarre and also @K_G_Andersen
18/ Breakneck speed explanation, Kristian Andersen: https://youtu.be/2nZB07FV4Ug Back story behind teleconference call, Eddie Holmes: https://youtu.be/5u94foNmpKE
Good research leads to good evidence.
1/ From activity across multiple disease surveillance systems, #influenza activity has remained low & stable in England during the latest reporting week.
A summary of #flu activity for England based on UKHSA surveillance week 10 2023 data (between 06 – 12 Mar 2023).
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