Time to change the conversation - steroids DO have clinical benefit in COVID-19 patients who require respiratory support. Too many tweets about hydroxychloroquine, not enough about steroids.

Important to keep a sense of perspective on the relative contribution of aerosol transmission & consider all the evidence, particularly what we observe in real life. Canadian colleagues & others provide some sensible counterarguments here in response to the "it's airborne" letter

Interesting study on the dangers of misinformation and COVID-19 "Following this misinformation, approx. 800 people have died, whereas 5,876 have been hospitalized and 60 have developed complete blindness after drinking methanol as a cure of coronavirus." ajtmh.org/docserver/full…

(1/12) The #CovidToes mystery deepens again. It looks like they are caused by #SARSCoV2 after all, but people have been looking with the wrong test. It seems pretty conclusive now that #COVID19 cases in children are being missed. A short thread...

The United Kingdom’s RECOVERY trial shows a way to benefit patients faster. nature.com/articles/d4158…

🔥Hot off the press. WHO SOLIDARITY trial pre-print out today. Amazing effort, 11,330 patients. Important results for hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir/ritonavir, interferon beta, and remdesivir. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Zo snel al een veilig vaccin, hoe kan dat? Ik bemerk in mijn omgeving nogal eens twijfel over de veiligheid van coronavaccins. Een proces dat normaal gesproken jaren duurt, kan dat in zo’n korte tijd een veilig en werkzaam vaccin opleveren. Gaan we niet te kort door de bocht?1/

PNN is op zoek naar twee nieuwe bestuursleden voor de portefeuilles Loopbaan en Open Science! Solliciteren kan tot 15 januari 2021. hetpnn.nl/vacatures/

Important study on in-hospital SARS-CoV-2 transmission: cluster analysis shows only possible HCW to HCW transmission, and not from patient to HCW (mainly in wards with IIR surgical masks as standard PPE)

This is AMAZING. How mRNA vaccines work. By hotvickkrishna as seen on his TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZMer33eCn/

Vaccinweigeraars waarschuwen voor samenleving waarin keuzes consequenties hebben speld.nl/2021/07/27/vac…

THREAD on what other countries are doing in terms of vaccinating 12-17 children... who's doing it and why? TLDR: UK one one of the v few high income countries left that isn't 1/20

We're looking for a postdoc with expertise in structural biology and protein expression (preferably with virology experience) to work with us in developing a new serological assay for influenza. If you, or anyone you know, is interested, please get in touch.

Very proud to share our publication "Metagenomic DNA sequencing for semi-quantitative pathogen detection from urine: a prospective, laboratory-based, proof-of-concept study", published in The Lancet Microbe today! thelancet.com/journals/lanmi…

Together with Amsterdam UMC @Flahless1 @viroloog we developed a PCR tiling method for #Monkeypox using Oxford Nanopore. Method is tested on 40 monkeypox samples in a 42 minute #NextGenPCR program. This method is inspired by Midnight, Nikki Freed and ARTIC Network 🧵 First data⬇️

Het boek is er! En op moment van verschijnen werd #Cherson, de geboortestad van Elena, bevrijd. Een geweldig cadeau voor haar. ‘Elena, berichten uit de schuilkelder’ ligt nu in de boekwinkel @thomas_rap neuznavaemaya #oekraïne

Pulmonary HSV & CMV in #COVID19 #ARDS 🦠HSV reactivations common; ⬆️ alveolar inflammation post reactivation: may hinder resolution of inflammation/injury? Alveolar sampling appropriate if non-resolving ARDS. Antivirals could enhance outcome 🦠CMV rare 🖇️ bit.ly/3Y6UmRe

PREPARE Europe epidemic exercise in Berlin Dr Nina Gobat @Lennie333 delivering our research plans #outbreak-research

Thanks to all PREPARE partners for making this year's Annual PREPARE meeting in Berlin a great success!