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By Mark Kaufman
Good news: There are credible coronavirus-tweeting scientists and reporters to follow online– amidst a sea of notorious misinformation in the Twitterverse.
Scientists have currently comprehended a lot about this pernicious microorganism, yet transmittable disease specialists acknowledge they still have much to learn about the new coronavirus and the resulting breathing disease, COVID-19 That’s because this infection jumped from animals and started infecting people simply some five months back.
” We are basing on the coast and we’re watching out at the water ahead of us,” Dr. Vince Silenzio, an M.D. and professor at the Rutgers School of Public Health, told Mashable earlier this week when explaining the knowns and unknowns of the infection. “We can see the horizon, however we do not know what’s over the horizon.”
As our understanding of this brand-new coronavirus continues to emerge over the coming year and beyond, here’s a list of trusted, wise, and reliable specialists to follow on Twitter.
This list will be updated– as there’s no dearth of important scientific minds out there.
Caitlin Rivers, PhD
Caitlin Rivers, an expert in disease break outs, is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
If experts inform you something is unknowable, don’t keep asking brand-new people till you get a straight answer. Since in doing so you have not discovered the fact, you have actually discovered somebody who desires your ear. 1/
— Caitlin Rivers, PhD (@cmyeaton) April 17, 2020
Natalie Dean, PhD
Natalie Dean, who researches emerging infectious illness and vaccine study style, is an assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Florida.
Very thoughtful summary of what our new “normal” might look like.
Recommendations include more public health hotlines, work environment temperature level screening, more telework, and flexible education. https://t.co/cQfYJyMakj
— Natalie E. Dean, PhD (@nataliexdean) April 24, 2020
Helen Branswell, journalist at Stat
Helen Branswell is a senior writer in infectious illness at Stat She first reported on a “mysterious and growing cluster of inexplicable pneumonia cases in the Chinese city of Wuhan” on Jan. 4,2020
Florian Krammer, PhD
Florian Krammer is a teacher in the Department of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai whose Twitter bio, appropriately, checks out “Viruses, viruses, infections and vaccines.”
Akiko Iwasaki, PhD
Akiko Iwasaki is a professor of immunobiology and molecular, cellular and developmental biology at the Yale School of Medication. She prompted robust social distancing steps early on, before many states and cities set up shutdowns.
It’s high time we practice social distancing steps.
– Cancel in person workshops, conferences, conferences. #COVID19
— Prof. Akiko Iwasaki (@VirusesImmunity) March 8, 2020
Trevor Bedford, PhD
Trevor Bedford looks into infections and resistance at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He tracks the advancement of the brand-new coronavirus around the U.S.
There have been hundreds of infections sequenced from infections in the USA. We can use these sequences to date the arrival of the epidemic. Doing so, we see that there were numerous intros driving the US epidemic and the earliest remained in Jan. https://t.co/gbqIAFTkgc11/18 pic.twitter.com/r2uylqcH2D
— Trevor Bedford (@trvrb) April 12, 2020
Caroline Chen, reporter at ProPublica
Caroline Chen is a health care reporter at ProPublica who is excellent at slogging through a deluge of brand-new research and determining what we know– and don’t— about the new coronavirus.
There are numerous folks on Twitter/TV who sound like they know all the responses, however the more I report, the more I’m struck by the number of things we still do not understand, like:
– the number of ppl are infected
– how many ppl have actually died
– i.e. how fatal #coronavirus is, exactly1/n
— Caroline Chen (@CarolineYLChen) April 17, 2020
David States, MD, PhD
Dr. David States is the primary medical officer at Angstrom Biotech, an innovative biotech business. He provides practical insight into how tough it will be to make and check efficient vaccines for coronavirus.
If you’re hoping a vaccine is going to be a knight in shining armor saving the day, you may remain in for a dissatisfaction. SARSCOV2 is an extremely contagious infection. A vaccine will need to cause long lasting high level immunity, but coronaviruses typically do not cause that kind of resistance 1/
— David States (@statesdj) April 21, 2020
Ashish Jha, MD, Miles Per Hour
Dr. Ashish Jha is presently the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute. He emphasizes the need for a robust national testing plan. There isn’t one
Comments about shining lights into people, injecting disinfectants are indicated to outrage & distract
So we hang around discussing that and we don’t discuss things like:
Inadequate testing
No real nationwide plans to support contact tracing
How to prevent resurgence in the fall— Ashish “I’m still focused on testing” Jha (@ashishkjha) April 24, 2020
Soumya Karlamangla, journalist at the LA Times
Soumya Karlamangla reports on health care in California for the Los Angeles Times, bringing crucial reporting about the coronavirus from the most populous state and greatest economy in the U.S.
lots of takeaways from the antibody research study, but a big one is that there are most likely a great deal of people contaminated with coronavirus who have moderate signs or no signs, so social distancing remains incredibly essential. you might have the virus and not understand, officials warn.
— Soumya (@skarlamangla) April 20, 2020
Scott Gottlieb, MD
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a previous commissioner of the FDA, is an active tweeter and commenter on the latest coronavirus research and how to responsibly resume shutdown parts of the country.
THREAD: There’s threat a 2nd wave of #COVID19 in Fall 2020 will coincide with influenza season; and surging covid infections will confound ability to ramp testing, make complete use of syndromic surveillance, preserve healthcare facility capability. What can we do to prepare? https://t.co/LrTZDKEVQP
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) April 21, 2020
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