#Disease

I can understand why a “wait and see” approach sounds reasonable for moving from alert level 4 to level 3. However I think it is based on false reasoning. Let
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Going back to the #asymptomatic, there is no doubt in anyone's mind now that #COVID-19 spread readily from those without symptoms. Great work by Dr. Topol, others place proportion of
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1/ Mini thread on restrictions to cycling during the CV19 lockdown. I have heard 3 main reasons for restricting the activities of cyclists during the lockdown: 1. If they crash
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1/ A reader points to a VERY worrisome finding in the @cdcgov Chicago nursing home report: patients L19, a 49-year-old staffer, and M20, a 77-year-old resident - both had very
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Behind closed doors for an undisclosed sum of taxpayer money, GOP legislators made one of the dumbest, most corrupt deals in Utah historyBtw, the stuff doesn’t work against COVID Obviously
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One of my greatest heroes! Dr. Judy Mikovits PHD Fired & Jailed for proving the Link Between Retroviruses & Chronic Diseases: ME/CFS/CFIDS/Lyme-XMRV retrovirusRedCross refused to test for XMRV!Patients are suffering
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I visited NYC & was treated like an oddity on subway. A rural who was well educated, spoke better than everyone on train and not racist. They all live in
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A common canard in NZ, spread by talk show hosts, misguided academics and conspiracy theorist political candidates, is that the @WHO revised down its estimate of the death rate of
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I was about to make a joke mixing epidemiology & epistemology, but I didn’t know who would get it. More people got this than expected. In truth, a well-handled joke.
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Im pissed. I got a positive test for COVID on 10/5. Doc said it was most likely a false positive but recommended i did not get another test or do
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Any government would have struggled to deal with this, it’s a new disease, anyone would have struggled. You don’t know what you don’t know right?Well… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Risk_Register This lists links to
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I think "excess mortality" is probably the most helpful way to assess CV's impact given probs with death reporting, but worth noting it too is subject to errors. E.g. there
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PLAGUE NOSTALGIA The Golden Girls did an episode where Rose might have contracted HIV through a blood transfusion. Many a canned laugh was had as Sophia frantically washed every piece
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Typing out the orders shipped email like “hey sorry it was delayed, I’m just fucking broken” If you ordered anything from any of my projects, they’ll be headed yr way
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Sandra Smith is losing her mind arguing with Dr Scott Atlas from Stanford as he's spitting facts at her about kids going back to school. But, but, but Dr Fauci...are
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Gonna vent about "anti-maskers" here for a second. How can someone be so self-centered that they put others in danger of catching a disease. No , your rights aren't being
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