#Disease

Untold Stories Retold

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*THREAD*The 1918 Influenza PandemicThe 1918 influenza outbreak or “Spanish flu” spread across the world between 1918 and 1919.Infecting 500 million people and killed 50 million, making it the deadliest pandemic of modern

Mangy Jay

magi_jay

One thing that irritates me about the school-opening conversation is that many seem to assume that there could possibly be a good outcome for kids & we just need to

Adetutu Balogun, MBA

Tutsy22

9 state commissioners have been tested positive for the disease yet still unrecorded as they are currently receiving Treatment at their different residences. #AkwaIbom The mother to the owner of

David Frum

davidfrum

This story in the New York Post is corroborated by African sources too. https://www.africanews.com/2020/04/11/coronavirus-updates-across-africa-africanews-hub/ It inspires me to answer the challenge raised by @billmaher on Friday night: why *not* ref

Frederick Melo, Reporter

FrederickMelo

Chief Nursing Officer Chris Boese has been incident command at Region’s Hospital, St. Paul and wearing a mask at groceries/everywhere since March. Hasn’t gotten infected. Her attitude? Protective equipment/protocols work.

🔥 Kareem Carr 🔥

kareem_carr

AS A STATISTICIAN, I think our obsession with objective truth and individualism is making us less effective at fighting the pandemic. There's been a lot of debate recently about whether

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

This is very worrisome. Among recovered former #COVID19 cases, “nearly a third had unexpectedly low levels of antibodies. In some cases, antibodies could not be detected at all.” https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3078840/coronavirus-low

Segun Olusanya

iceman_ex

I think it may be worth talking a little bit about “faking” from a medical perspective. (1/n)https://twitter.com/damndrosetweets/status/1196804341753139200 There are several ways of looking at “faking”1. The body experiencing symptoms of

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

When a scientist says "This paper doesn't show this" or "We don't have enough evidence to say"They are not saying it's wrong. Or that it will never be shown. They

Sandeep Mall

SandeepMall

When I look back at last 20 years of my life, we fought 6 cancer cases in the closest family- Mom,Dad, Grandmom, Sister, Nephew, Mom In law. Many more in

Collings, Ruth.

collingsruth

It seems impossible to actually convince privileged ppl that this is a life or death situation bc it isn't for them (yet). They have figured out that they can protect

Randy Nesse

RandyNesse

A recent news article in @ScienceMagazine, “Rethinking #anorexia: Biology may be more important than culture,” illustrates the human tendency to stay committed to a simple theory despite contrary evidence, even

sarah lugor!

sarahlugor

It’d be ignorant to pretend that people aren’t going to use drugs, so with that being said:if you are going to do them or know anyone who may potentially, you

Devon Price

drdevonprice

The whole "I was misdiagnosed with Borderline/Bipolar/Narcissistic Personality, but actually I'm just Autistic/an ADHDer" narrative so many people have is like... so so close to identifying the actual problem. and

David Lat

DavidLat

Today, about a month after I came off the #ventilator and 3 weeks after my hospital discharge, I had a telemedicine consultation with a pulmonologist.#coronavirus #Covid_19 #COVID19 I told him

Tony Blair Institute

InstituteGC

Tony Blair on #r4today:The suppression phase can only end when it’s safe to do so. The purpose of the paper we’ve put out is to stimulate a debate on how