#Disease

A perspective on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, on what I consider a positive day in the pandemic: Firstly a reminder; this virus is highly infectious and causes a severe, often fatal,
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It is a belief in those days that if we chant or talk about something, it will get stronger due to the power of vibration. In the current context,
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A few weeks ago, I was wondering with the ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group why there were still cases from March being announced by the DOH. We decided to look
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1/ BC's privacy scheme relating to the release of small data numbers in communities makes NO sense. Yesterday, the docs said that neighborhood data could be released only when numbers
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the hot mess that was @rcgp labelling COVID-19 a lifestyle disease: a thread from an (incredibly disappointed) medical student who used to be a social worker before coming to medicine,
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As promised, more toxic tales as I take a break from #amwriting. What I love about poisons is where it takes you: chemistry, biology, history... maybe the ED or a
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DHEC announced 1,002 new confirmed cases and 2 new probable cases of COVID-19, and 6 additional confirmed deaths.This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 25,666, probable cases to
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Re: Fat shaming/etc.Nancy Pelosi said something about President Trump that was designed to get under his skin, because he's someone who is notoriously unable to take the same treatment he
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Don't know why it still amazes me the President can go on TV daily and spew demonstrably false information about a disease and face zero backlash from anyone except dipshits
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1) MALE INFERTILITY AND THE SPIKE PROTEINMITOCHONDRIA ARE DAMAGED BY THE SPIKE PROTEIN OF SARS-CoV-2. MALE INFERTILITY IS CAUSED BY MITOCHONDRIAL DAMAGE. INTERESTINGLY, SINCE mtDNA IS NOT IN THE NUCLEUS,
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Theory: If Biden wins, his pandemic messaging will be better than Trump’s shitshow, but Europe’s experience points to the limitation of pre-vaccine policy responses to the virus in a populous
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I've seen a few papers describing the characteristics of people who tested positive for COVID-19 and this is sometimes being interpreted as describing people with certain characteristic's the *probability of
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There is no roadmap to address this unprecedented crisis. But there’s power in working together with our neighbors on the West Coast as we plan to reopen our economies —
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Today I treated a patient who was on a ventilator for 3 weeks after contracting COVID. Her family was told she likely wouldn’t make it. She pulled through, got off
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Pathogens loom large in the life of anyone who has spent time in the developing world. Measures are taken every day to avoid bad water and vectors. I woke up
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If herd immunity is our only way out of this disease as many epidemiologists are suggesting, then we need to convert our weakness into our strength. Our numbers. In addition,
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