Rosie Redfield
I run a research lab (Do bacteria have sex?) and teach Useful Genetics to UBC students and the world.
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This Is the Coronavirus Election
Ed Yong - The Atlantic 125d 7 tweets
In January, the COVID-19 pandemic will still be burning its way across the U.S. Next week, Americans will choose whether to bring it under control.
Studies Point To Big Drop In COVID-19 Death Rates
NPR.org 133d 31 tweets
More hospitalized patients are surviving than early in the pandemic. Improved treatments make a big difference, but so does flattening the curve to keep hospitals from overfilling, researchers say.
Pandemic Observations -- October 20, US States & Canadian Provinces (Dakotas Go Exponential):
Daily Kos 132d 1 tweets
Just when I thought the Covid-19 pandemic couldn’t possibly keep getting worse in the Dakotas, ND reports more than 1,000 new cases today, more than twice what it was reporting just a week ago, and bringing its weekly per capita new case rate to...
Rosie Redfield Clovid-19! 132d
Flu Season Never Came to the Southern Hemisphere
Scientific American 133d 1 tweets
Mask wearing and social distancing for COVID-19 may have cut influenza cases south of the equator
This Bellwether Has Picked The Winning Presidential Candidate Since The 1890s
NPR.org 140d 1 tweets
Since 1892, Vigo County in Indiana has voted for the winning presidential candidate in every election but two. What did the voters there see about Donald Trump's candidacy?
Rosie Redfield This US county picked all but 2 of the last 32 winning presidents: . In 2016 NPR considered possible causes at great length, but, given the US's 3141 counties, what are the odds it's just chance? 140d
Opinion: It's concerning that President Trump got so sick so quickly
CNN 149d 1 tweets
Infectious disease expert Dr. Celine Gounder writes that it will be at least another week before the President is out of the woods. Covid patients often take an abrupt turn for the worse about Seven to 10 days into the course of disease and he's...
Chris Wallace Struggled to Rein In an Unruly Trump at First Debate
Michael M. Grynbaum - Nytimes.com 153d 1 tweets
In his second time moderating a presidential debate, the Fox News anchor attempted to reset the proceedings midway through.
Rosie Redfield The NYT says that neither campaign would have agreed in advance to a moderator-controlled mute button. 153d
The Contempt of “Notorious ACB”
Slate Magazine 156d 5 tweets
In its assumption that women are all the same, this manages to be cruel to both the former justice and her successor.
Rosie Redfield Dahlia Lithwick's insight into how the White House sees women is both wonderful and devastating. via 155d
Rescue Effort Is Underway After Hundreds of Whales Beach Themselves Off Tasmania
Nytimes.com 161d 1 tweets
About 270 pilot whales became stranded on the west coast of the island state in Australia. Rescuers estimate that a third of them have already died.
Rosie Redfield What really causes whale strandings? After 50 million years of evolution in the ocean, whales must be able to tell when the water is shallow and the tide is going out, and to warn each other of danger. Are they really dumber than fishes? 161d
The Nightmare Scenario That Keeps Election Lawyers Up At Night -- And Could Hand Trump A Second Term
Paul Blumenthal - HuffPost 163d 1 tweets
A "red mirage" on election night and a post-election "blue shift" could lead to an unprecedented constitutional crisis just as the Supreme Court is in tu...
Rosie Redfield This is an excellent (necessarily long) explanation of a terrifyingly likely scenario. via 163d
In an Unlikely Covid Survivor’s Case, More Questions Than Answers
Nytimes.com 165d 2 tweets
Six months in, it is clear that mortality is not the only outcome that matters.
Rosie Redfield We need a quantitative measure of total long-term post-COVID morbidity (like mortality stats). Even a crappy measure, if reported daily, would put the harm done by the pandemic into better perspective. 165d
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 with SHERLOCK One-Pot Testing | NEJM
New England Journal of Medicine 167d 9 tweets
Correspondence from The New England Journal of Medicine — Detection of SARS-CoV-2 with SHERLOCK One-Pot Testing
Outdoor recreation retailer MEC sold to U.S. private investment firm
The Globe and Mail 169d 4 tweets
California-based Kingswood Capital Management LP has created a B.C.-based affiliate to run the business, and has appointed a new CEO
Scientists Find a Possible Sign of Life on Venus
Marina Koren - The Atlantic 169d 13 tweets
The discovery of a strange gas in the atmosphere puts the planet “into the realm of a perhaps inhabited world,” a researcher says.
Paul Offit's Biggest Concern About COVID Vaccines
Medscape 173d 17 tweets
Eric Topol talks with Paul Offit about the timing of phase 3 vaccine trials, the need for public trust, and what might not be known when a vaccine rollout begins.
The Contagion Externality of a Superspreading Event: The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and COVID-19
Iza.org 175d 5 tweets
Large in-person gatherings without social distancing and with individuals who have traveled outside the local area are classified as the "highest risk...
Origin of new emergent Coronavirus and Candida fungal diseases—Terrestrial or cosmic?
PubMed Central (PMC) 200d 14 tweets
The origins and global spread of two recent, yet quite different, pandemic diseases is discussed and reviewed in depth: Candida auris, a eukaryotic fungal disease, and COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), a positive strand RNA viral respiratory disease. Both...
Students from outside the bubble already in lockdown as Atlantic university towns brace for return to school
The Globe and Mail 197d 3 tweets
At Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B., where 40 per cent of students come from outside Atlantic Canada, students began quarantining on campus last Friday
Rosie Redfield What??? Universities in Atlantic Canada are opening but don't have the ability to test students for COVID-19?? Are they going to rely on symptoms, when we know that ~40% of cases are asymptomatic? 197d
Trump 'enthusiastic' over unproven coronavirus therapeutic, MyPillow creator says
CNN 197d 3 tweets
President Donald Trump and Mike Lindell, the creator of MyPillow and an avowed supporter, participated in a July meeting at the White House regarding the use of oleandrin as a potential therapeutic for coronavirus, Lindell confirmed to CNN.
Rosie Redfield Trump is pushing oleandrin, a very toxic plant extract, to treat COVID-19. A blood concentration of 20 ng/ml is fatal (Wikipedia), but inhibiting virus in cell cultures needs at least 50 ng/ml. Why is it even being considered? 197d
Oleandrin - Wikipedia
En.wikipedia.org 197d 1 tweets
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Rosie Redfield The BioRxiv preprint reports that oleandrin has "potent antiviral activity down to 0.05 µg/ml." . But Wikipedia says "The fatal blood concentration of oleandrin has been estimated for humans to be approximately 20 ng/ml" 197d