Björn Meyer
Virologist - PhD 🔬👨🔬 | ☣ RNA Viruses, currently kept busy by a Coronavirus | @Vignuzzilab🔍 @InstitutPasteur | 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇳
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Herd Immunity? Or ‘Mass Murder’?
A proposal to let people with low risk of infection live without constraint could lead to a million or more preventable deaths.
Nature journals announce first open-access agreement
The arrangement will allow some researchers in Germany to publish openly — but critics say it comes with a high price.
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Björn Meyer
In case you were wondering where your tax money goes: €9,500 to publish a paper. Not to do the study, not to analyze anything, not even to have somebody writing anything. Just to put it in a journal that is mainly online these days.
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Vascular Disease and Thrombosis in SARS-CoV-2 Infected Rhesus Macaques
Aid et al. show that SARS-CoV-2 causes endothelial disruption and vascular thrombosis
in both human and rhesus macaques lungs by inducing an upregulate of proinflammatory
cytokines. Using an approach that combines histopathology and multiomics in...
Estimating total excess mortality during a COVID-19 outbreak in Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract. Total excess mortality peaked during a COVID19 outbreak in Stockholm, but 25% of these deaths were not recognized as Covid-19-related nor occurred in
A Viral Theory Cited by Health Officials Draws Fire From Scientists
A manifesto urging reliance on “herd immunity” without lockdowns was warmly received by administration officials. But the strategy cannot stem the pandemic, many experts say.
Analysis of RNA–protein networks with RNP-MaP defines functional hubs on RNA
Networks of proteins bound to single RNAs are identified by correlated chemical crosslinking.
Trump: Biden will 'listen to the scientists' if elected
President Trump mockingly warned at his rally in Nevada late Sunday that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden would “listen to the scientists” if elected and there would be more lockdowns to curb the spread of the COVID-19.
France Coronavirus: 6,633 Cases and 148 Deaths - Worldometer
France Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries, trends and timeline.6633 cases etc.
Strong Q3 trading across all regions worldwide leads to upgrade of guidance for 2020
Serco Group plc ('Serco' or 'the Group'), the international provider of services to governments, today provides an unscheduled update on the outlook for trading in 2020.
Guidance for discharge and ending of isolation of people with COVID-19
This document provides guidance for planning the discharge and ending of isolation of COVID-19 patients.
More Than 1,000 Current and Former CDC Officers Condemn U.S. Covid-19 Response
An open letter expresses dismay at the nation’s public-health response to the Covid-19 pandemic and calls for the federal agency to play a more central role.
Coronavirus in Germany: Angela Merkel urges people to stay home 'whenever possible' | DW | 17.10.2020
Angela Merkel has called for solidarity as Germany enters a "very serious phase" of the pandemic. Germany has again set a new daily case record, as ministers call for thousands of additional contact tracers.
Mitt Romney blasts Trump’s refusal to denounce QAnon
With the election just weeks away, the race between President Trump and former vice president Joe Biden heats up. Here's the latest news on campaigns, voting an more.
PubPeer - Search publications and join the conversation.
PubPeer enables scientists to search for their publications or their peers publications and provide feedback and/or start a conversation anonymously.
Eurosurveillance | Detection of Usutu virus infection in wild birds in the United Kingdom, 2020
In August 2020, as part of a long-term disease surveillance programme, Usutu virus was detected in five Eurasian blackbirds (Turdus merula) and one house sparrow (Passer domesticus) from Greater London, England. This was initially detected by...
France: Teacher decapitated in gruesome 'Islamist terror attack' near Paris | DW | 16.10.2020
A suspect has been shot dead after a knife attack on the outskirts of Paris. The victim was a teacher who had reportedly recently shown caricatures of Muhammad in class.
Mammalian lipid droplets are innate immune hubs integrating cell metabolism and host defense
Lipid droplets (LDs) accumulate in cells to serve as lipid storage organelles. They are also an attractive source of nutrients for many pathogens. Bosch et al. show that various proteins involved in innate immunity form complexes on LDs in response...
Repurposed antiviral drugs for COVID-19; interim WHO SOLIDARITY trial results
BACKGROUND WHO expert groups recommended mortality trials in hospitalized COVID-19 of four re-purposed antiviral drugs. METHODS Study drugs were Remdesivir, Hydroxychloroquine, Lopinavir (fixed-dose combination with Ritonavir) and Interferon-β1a...
Health workers in France go on strike as coronavirus cases surge
Several hundred health workers took to the streets of Paris on Thursday afternoon to protest against conditions in French hospitals, as the number of new coronavirus cases surges across the country.