#Disease

Neil Chilson

neil_chilson

Excellent piece by @JaneYakowitz on "virus surveillance" and privacy. Privacy is an instrumental right, she argues. If we forget that, we risk undermining the goals of privacy: equity, fairness, and

Panteleimon ("Paddy") Ekkekakis

Ekkekakis

I teach a Critical Appraisal course to seniors in Exercise Science & Pre-Health. Our 1st project is to redo a published meta-analysis. Students always find errors of various degrees of

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

On holiday but on procedures in care homes: in my experience following this story from start of crisis there was actually a lot of concern about asymptomatic transmission in the

oliver beige

oliverbeige

JAPAN Another thread on the logic behind the Japanese disaster response. Bc if you don't understand network flow you'll likely not get it and offer harmful advice. 1. Japan was

SARS-CoV-19 Preprints

SARSCoV192

1/11 Analysis of humoral immune response in #COVID19 patients provides key insights for #ConvalescentPlasma therapy and #Vaccine research: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.30.20047365v1 2/11 A pseudotyped-lentiviral-vector-based neutra

Stefan Simanowitz

StefSimanowitz

“Do you think you’ll be able to look after a constituency. You don’t even seem to be able to look after yourself.”Shambolic charm has worked for the PM all his

Akshay Narang

akshaynarang96

Everyone is shocked about what the Tablighi Jamaat has done to us. But then not many know that religion and epidemiology share a close relationship in India. The case in

Dr. Nadia Alam

DocSchmadia

As a GP-Anesthetist, I’m called to put people on life support measures like ventilators.As a palliative care doctor, I keep people comfortable during the last phase of life, dying, whether

Craig Spencer MD MPH

Craig_A_Spencer

Others have pointed out the problems with the new @CDCgov testing recommendations for asymptomatic contacts of confirmed cases.But it's important to point out the huge impact this guidance will have

Barrister's Horse

BarristersHorse

THREAD:WHAT PRICE FREEDOM?1. There's a sense of restlessness on Twitter that I'm not feeling more locally. The roads are quiet & people are conspicuous by their absence in my village.

el gato malo

boriquagato

FUN 2020 FACT:it is now considered gaslighting to claim that the naturally evolved human immune system will, if allowed, do the job it was literally created to do. so, daily

Ryan Bourne

MrRBourne

In my view, lockdowns again are, more than anything else, a societal and policy failure. A failure to do the marginal things on mask wearing, ventilation, avoiding large indoor gatherings,

Prof. Akiko Iwasaki

VirusesImmunity

Very excited to share this work by the heroic team - @carolilucas Pat Wong @sneakyvirus @tiago21bio et al on “Longitudinal analyses reveal immunological misfiring in severe COVID-19”. A thread on

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

Here’s a very good news story. New studies show the Pfizer-BNT vaccine works incredibly well, including against the South African variant (the most immune-evading variant known).But the second dose is

Hedgehog Cabin

HedgehogCabin

1.This time last year a little hedgehog called Milo woke early from hibernation. Healthy, but weak and desperate for food he lived on whatever he could find, which was spillage

sai priya

priya_27_

THREAD: Venereal Disease and the Prostitution Policy of the British Rajfull post (with much more detail, sources, and links)https://saipriyac27.wordpress.com/2020/08/03/venereal-disease-and-the-prostitution-policy-of-the-british-raj/ In 19t