Learning research means doing research: Tracy Johnson “If a kid wants to play soccer, you don’t say, ‘You have to 1st learn all the rules, watch other people play & read about the soccer greats, & maybe in a couple years, we’ll let you kick the ball.’ No!” ucla.in/2GrGHeD

I have a mild fever and chest congestion—I am staying home and the Yale Health Center called to hear the message, “routine testing for COVID-19 is not available”. We are terribly underestimating the severity of this pandemic. #COVID19 #FlattenTheCurve

I'm interested in talking with people who have now, or just recovered from COVID19. Anybody know anybody?

Let's dispel the notion that "novel coronavirus is just like the flu". Sharing this striking comparison of #Flu, #COVID19, #SARS and #MERS made by BioRender. #COVID19 is 30x more deadly and almost 2x more contagious than the flu. We have no existing immunity to COVID19.

How #Yale scientists like @NathanGrubaugh Prof. Akiko Iwasaki & (((Howard Forman))) are using Twitter to share up-to-the-minute science and public info on #COVID19. bit.ly/2QmN9Jn Yale Faculty Yale Medicine Yale School of Public Health

Thank you everyone for your incredible messages of support and encouragement.♥️ Many of you asked what it was like in the ER right now. I want to share a bit with you. Please RT: A Day in the Life of an ER Doc - A Brief Dispatch from the #COVID19 Frontline:

The Yale #SARSCoV2 Genome Surveillance Initiative released its weekly update #2, showing preliminary results of our ongoing genomic epidemiology investigation of the origins and spread of the virus causing #COVID19 in CT and NY. github.com/grubaughlab/CT…

Lineage B1 shows mainly genomes from NY state, with CT genomes interleaved among them. This suggests New York as the main source of viruses causing outbreaks in Connecticut, introductions that have been leading to sustained transmission chains in CT.

Incredibly important work from some really hard working individuals that will hopefully overhaul our #SARSCoV2 testing.

A huge effort by very talented people! So excited to be a part of this tremendous group!

NCBI GEO and SRA only accepts hdf5 and fastq files for Nanopore data. Fast5 are a type of hdf5 file but were rejected - how are #nanopore fans handling this? Is there a conversion software? Can you just change the file extension? Oxford Nanopore

“We don't make any money out of this,” said Yale School of Public Health Yale Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases postdoctoral fellow @VogelsChantal. “We just want to make sure that, you know, testing gets scaled up and becomes more available so that we can… prevent the transmission of the coronavirus.” foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/coro…

#SalivaDirect has designated 3 labs to begin testing using our #opensource protocol around the country. Many more to come very soon! Schools, at-risk communities, and people all over can start to expect affordable and accessible testing! #COVID19 #maskup news.yale.edu/2020/09/24/yal…

@NathanGrubaugh Emily Bazelon Yale University Yale School of Public Health Yale School of Medicine @ADPaltiel @gregggonsalves @WeinbergerDan Prof. Akiko Iwasaki Dr. Sten Vermund @anikasinghlemar Paul Turner Lab @Ginpitz Forrest W. Crawford Saad B. Omer This is so frustrating. So many of us have been working so tirelessly the past few months to expand testing options. While together, we have been slowly making progress, a few Yale University hung up on what they think is red tape are now preventing us from helping our own local community.

Why did you become a scientist? Wrong answers only.

I'm so grateful to finally share the first research article from my PhD work! A huge amount of work from all the authors went into this story as well as discussions and input from many others, thank you to everyone who helped get this project finished. cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Under leadership of Gina Raimondo, Rhode Island is shutting bars and gyms But leaving schools open Because that's what the data suggests we should do washingtonpost.com/health/2020/11…

Was just on a call with a well-known virologist who noted that it now appears the UK variant can fairly efficiently infect wild-type mice. Good news for scientists; bad news for the world - there will now be an animal reservoir that will be with us for all time.

Honored to be doing genomic surveillance for that state of CT