Viruses

Notes

• There are bacteria protected against all natural viruses

Links

• Coronavirus Tech Handbook
• COVID-19 Dashboards - Site that displays up to date COVID-19 stats, powered by fastpages. (Code)
• SARS-CoV-2 Sequencing Resources
• YC Companies Responding to COVID-19 (HN)
• Global Coronavirus Cases
• COVID-19 - Protecting your family (2020)
• Reverse engineering SARS-CoV-2 (Videos)
• Fighting COVID-19 with Epidemiology: A Johns Hopkins Teach-Out
• BioMed Sanity - Aspires to help the influx of bioRxiv / medRxiv papers on COVID-19. (Code)
• Why can't we use live SARS-CoV-2 as a Covid-19 vaccine? (2020)
• TCN Protocol - Specification and reference implementation of the CEN Protocol for decentralized, privacy-preserving contact tracing.
• Auspice - Interactive exploration of phylodynamic & phylogenomic data. (Code)
• Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing
• Awesome Coronavirus - Useful projects and resources for COVID-19.
• COVID-19: Neurological Hypoventilation
• Estimating COVID-19's R_t in Real-Time
• Exposure Notification Reference Server | Covid-19 Exposure Notifications
• Epidemic Modeling for Everyone
• Things we do and don't yet know about covid-19
• Immuni iOS app (HN)
• Immuni's High-Level Description
• fastv - Ultra-fast tool for identification of SARS-CoV-2 and other microbes from sequencing data.
• VaxNow - Friendly Immunization App.
• Биофизика вирусов — Олег Батищев (2018)
• Corona Warn App Docs
• Effective Reproduction Number for COVID-19 (Code)
• Viruses and the Evolution of Life (2005)
• HN: The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a naturally evolved virus (2020)
• Computational predictions of protein structures associated with COVID-19 (2020)
• c-19 Long Hauling (2020)
• A Mechanist's Guide to the Coronavirus Genome (2020) (Tweet)
• Analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 genome
• How COVID-19 can cause psychological problems (2020)
• K: The Overlooked Variable That's Driving the Pandemic (2020) - 19% of cases responsible for 80% of transmissions.
• Giant virus discovered with its own CRISPR-like immune system (2016)
• This Week in Virology - Podcast about viruses.
• What is Herd Immunity? Epidemiologists Make Their Case (2020)
• Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker (2020)
• COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker (Code)
• Aerosol transmission of Covid-19: A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air (2020) (Tweet)
• The false promise of herd immunity for COVID-19 (2020)
• Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection (2020) (HN)
• How To Become COVID Savvy In 10 Steps (2020)
• Are We Being Told the Truth About COVID-19? | Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi (2020) (Debunked claims)
• Corona, False Alarm?: Facts and Figures by Karina Reiß (2020)
• Herd immunity thresholds for SARS-CoV-2 estimated from unfolding epidemics (2020)
• SARS-CoV-2 waves in Europe: A 2-stratum SEIRS model solution (2020) (Tweet)
• MakAir - Covid-19 Open Source Ventilator.
• COVID Tracking Project
• Overview of how mRNA vaccines work (2020)
• mRNA vaccines – a new era in vaccinology (2020)
• The Machine That Made the Vaccine: Company, Platform, Innovation (2020)
• How mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) work (2020)
• Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine (2020) (Lobsters) (HN) (Tweet) (Reddit)
• Reverse Engineering Source Code of the Biontech Pfizer Vaccine: Part 2 (2020) (HN) (Reddit)
• Where is the evidence for lockdowns? (2020)
• Messengers of hope: two mRNA Covid-19 vaccines herald a new era for vaccinology (2020) (HN)
• The Lab Leak Hypothesis (2021) (HN)
• The Genetic Code of various COVID-19 Vaccines (2021)
• Evidence SARS-CoV-2 Emerged From a Biological Laboratory in Wuhan, China (2020)
• mRNA Vaccines: What Happens (2021)
• Covid-19: The Great Reset (2020)
• How Gamaleya’s Sputnik V Vaccine Works (2021)
• Coronavirus: Links, Discussion, Open Thread (2021) (HN)
• Why can't we have contagious vaccines? (2021)
• Genome Sequencing and Covid-19: How Scientists Are Tracking the Virus (2021)
• Vanden Bossche, PhD: the risk of “viral escape” posed by “leaky vaccines.” (2021)
• Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub (HN)
• Why do mRNA Vaccines have side effects? (2021)
• What are the actual differences between the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine? (2021)
• Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out (2021) (HN)
• How Pfizer Makes Its Covid-19 Vaccine (2021)
• Investigate the Origins of Covid-19 (2021)
• Vaccines: A Measured Response (2021) (Reddit)
• The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins (HN)
• Linus Torvalds on mRNA Vaccines (2021) (HN)
• What mRNA is good for, and what it maybe isn’t (2021) (HN)
• Испытания вакцин. Открытый научный семинар с Константином Севериновым (2021)
• CovidPass - Add your EU Digital COVID Certificates to your favorite wallet apps. (Code)
• The mRNA Vaccines Are Extraordinary, but Novavax Is Even Better (2021) (Tweet)
• The mutation that helps Delta spread (2021) (HN)
• The Coronavirus Is Here Forever (2021) (HN)
• Documents confirming China's role in COVID release (2021)
• SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies (2021) (HN)
• How highly effective mRNA vaccines work (nice visual) (2021)
• Chemical composition of the mRNA vaccines (2021)
• Python-for-Epidemiologists Course
• Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert (2021) (HN)
• pangolin - Software package for assigning SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences to global lineages.
• How PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) Test works (2021)
• Your Local Epidemiologist - by Katelyn Jetelina
• Omicron Is Our Past Pandemic Mistakes on Fast-Forward (2021) (Tweet)
• Petabase-scale sequence alignment catalyses viral discovery (2021) (Code)
• What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity (2022) (HN)
• SARS-CoV-2 contains part of a patented genetic sequence (2022) (HN)
• Recipes for Future Plagues: Conversation with Rob Reid and Kevin Esvelt (2022) (Tweet)
• Kendrick - DSL and Simulation Platform for Epidemiology Modeling.
• Masks for COVID: Updating the evidence (2022)
• The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)