#Disease

6 feet enough for social distancing? MIT researcher says droplets carrying coronavirus can travel up to 27 feet https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/03/30/coronavirus-social-distancing-mit-researcher-lydia-bourouiba-27-feet/5091526002/ via
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Some great data on the developing situation in Spain where cases have spiked but deaths are not followingCases are even returning to the Milan area where I would not have
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New preprint *NOT PEER REVIEWED* from the @opensafely team which we would love comments on! We looked at whether inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), used in asthma and COPD, might influence
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You know, I always hear from (what we classify as boomers) that the US could never render unto a strong State, but frankly I disagree. From what I'm sure not
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NEW: time for a Covid situation updateCases and hospitalisations are rising again across much of the western world.What’s driving the rise, and should we be worried? What’s behind the rise?Some
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.@spondylitis invited me to share my thoughts during their annual (virtual) Global Spondyloarthritis Summit!3 days of expert presentations about all things spondylitis starts today.Registration is free, learn with me!: https://spondyloarthr
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Some idle thoughts in seven tweets. Death has always been with us – so taking the long view might help us to understand more deeply some of the ethical questions
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I am so tired of hearing how influenza isn’t a “big deal” from anti vaccine forces. Personal stories can sway opinion. If facts did, we wouldn’t have falling vaccination rates.
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Guess what, the HHS IG did do a lengthy examination of the government's response to the swine flu in 2009. Let's tweet out a few key findings ....https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1247545358705664002 "On the
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New results from a collaboration with @Masopust_Vezys aiming to determine the potential role of memory T cells in protection against SARS-CoV-2. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.26.441518v11/3 Using an adenovirus expressing N
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Artist folks of Twitter: do you ever just look at what you're doing and the way everything is going right now and think, WTF am I even doing here? What
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Nope, that ain’t it at all. They’re forecasting GDP to fall in Q2 at an *annualized rate* of 30%. That’s actually a quarterly decline of about 7%.Annualized rates simply aren’t
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Worked in a COVID ICU yesterday. All I can say is damn... (1/ ) I've been away from the bedside for about 2 years (a little less) and I was
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Epidemiologist Op-Ed:Estimated 90% of deaths in U.S., at least from first wave of the epidemic, might have been prevented by putting social distancing policies into effect two weeks earlier, on
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1/6The UK's policy response to Covid resembles a mass hallucinationFear drove Govt's to assume worst cases and make extreme decisions with grave long-term consequencesFor 80% of the elderly said to
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Sadly yesterday my dad Terry Joy lost his fight against #COVID19 thankfully the staff at Alexandra Hospital ICU allowed me to sit with him for his last few hours, something
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