#Disease

This is interesting. The provocative part is not the data, nor as most of the rep;ones in this thread focus on, estimates of CFR but the striking difference between US
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A friend of mine got C19. It was a very mild presentation. She recovered and survived it.Would you think that the experience debunked the fear?Sadly, it didn't. She is still
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1/ Big thanks all of you on @Twitter for the interest in my thread regarding current literature on #microthrombi and #COVID19! It’s late, so of course, more thinking and more
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eating my animals- a thread no one will see pip- 8/10 crackhead energy. she bites a lot and tries to bite out of her cage. falls off her wheel because
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Lots of serology happening around the world, so I thought I'd do a thread collating some of the infection-fatality estimates for #COVID19 1/n 2/n INFECTION-fatality rate (IFR) is the rate
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The story of the castaway Tongan schoolboys is really cool. I’m glad I read it. But I have to sigh at the idea that it “disproves” Lord of the Flies.Even
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I'm seeing a lot of mostly right-wing folks gearing up to attack the governmental COVID-19 response as unnecessary. They are concentrating on poking holes in the different models, especially "Murray's,"
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Growing discussion about the differential impacts of the pandemic. In the US, I'm hearing about 4 levels: 1 - The owning class are retreating into their (summer) homes, w everything
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Messi: "When I communicated my wish to leave to my wife and children, it was a brutal drama. The whole family began crying, my children did not want to leave
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We're at a tipping point. It's a beautiful day. We'll have more of these and social distancing, even in places where it's being strongly pushed, will get harder as the
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BREAKINGFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETO: ALL US CITIZENS UNDER HOUSE ARREST AND MAINSTREAM MEDIA OUTLETSRE: W.H.O. USING INFLATED NUMBERS FOR CV19 DEATHS WHILE C.D.C. USING CONFIRMED DEATH CERTIFICATE CASES ONLY. MEDIA IS
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Lots of talk about “skipping the phase III” trials of #COVID19 #vaccines and going straight to widespread vaccination.Here’s a not-so-brief thread on why that’s a terrible idea.1/ Ethical considerations aside,
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ThreadPasma deserves further scientific discussion, as the symptoms are real to patients. We did a study on pasma back in medical school (Jara et al., 2008), which suggests that it
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#COVID19: A Thread on the Danger of Small Town Stigma Over the last few weeks, I have had the pleasure of watching #PEI report 0 (!) new #SARSCoV2 cases again
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NEW: The Ford government is now raising doubts about the effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine, citing a study out of Qatar that said partial immunization provides 30% protection against the
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New drops (14 Apr '20). I suspect many connections btwn MSM & DNC can be found via Wikileaks list re: who colluded w/DNC or HRC campaign during 2016 election. Podesta
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