#Disease

Katherine Cross

Quinnae_Moon

There's no question that our nation is despairing over COVID-19. It feels like people have given up, or are heedlessly killing each other with this virus. That, if only we

Rajan Venkateswaran (സ്വാമി)

swamy64

Part 1 -Roots of a Palghat Brahmin BoyHugely impressed by ROOTS, Alex Haley's landmark book in 1977, that traced the ancestry of an Afro American to Africa that spanned over

WmLogannnnnnnnn

LogannnnnnnnnWm

Folks, I have had repeated requests for knowledge about foods that will keep your Alkaline level in your body at an acceptable level. the Human body functions best when the

A Marm Kilpatrick

DiseaseEcology

Vaccine efficacy in blocking infection & transmission(I think) We can now estimate the (minimum) reduction in transmission from the Moderna vaccine.Threadtl;dr Moderna vaccine blocks >90% (87-93%) of infections & 91%

Jeff Sharlet

JeffSharlet

We know--or we can guess--overdose deaths increased because of the pandemic. In fact, it may be the worst year on record. In my very small mostly rural county, we had

Zachary Binney

zbinney_NFLinj

I'm glad an SEC expert went (recently) on the record with their thinking, but some infectious disease colleagues (@neelrgandhi @DrSnowInBus @JillWeather) and I have some serious concerns about her answers.

Aaron Berkowitz

AaronLBerkowitz

Hello #medstudenttwitter, I was alerted to tweets expressing concern about spinal cord anatomy on step 1, so here’s a new #EndNeurophobia #tweetorial on THE SPINAL CORD #meded #Neurology cc @MedTweetorials

Marty Chilberg

mchilberg

1/Thought your Blue Wave was $BLUE related. No I do not fear govt price controls personally. I'm far more worried about tax policy and anti growth initiatives like the $4

Barton

Barton_options

1/13 My most optimistic take so far:COVID is just common cold, but sadly we are ALL pre-Columbian native Americans. disclaimer: everything below is entirely theoretical (i.e. speculative). no medical advice.

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

Imagine a country that has reduced their number of cases to only a few, say 5 infectious individuals, in a population of 5 million. A person might say: “The likelihood

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Finally read the new update on UK variant B.1.1.7, posted yesterday, which includes a study suggesting the variant is no more (or less) severe than prior virus variants.Just a very

Black Capitalism is not Liberation 🇭🇹

IAmBumblebee

There is an area in Duplin county (located in North Carolina) that is predominately black. In that same area you can find hundreds of hog farms. These hog farms continuously

Adam Townsend

adamscrabble

The absolute worst people on Twitter were the VC's and blue checks who forecast "millions will die" and fed into the hysteria, crowded ER rooms. Their wrongness created suspicion and

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

Dorms are like cruise ships on land or prisons without bars: people living in proximity, in frequent contact, over extended periods of time. For many infectious pathogens, such settings are

Leslie Kim, MD, MPH

DrLeslieKim

I am a full-time academic surgeon.I am a facial nerve specialist who treats patients with Bell’s Palsy sequelae. I have fillers in my face.I am 32 weeks pregnant. And I

m.foley is, yet again, quarantined

mduboisfoley

cw: violence, homophobiaas the election and the possibility of organized right wing violence approaches, I want to express something to my fellow very young gay people: for most of our

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