#Disease

1/ I really didn't want to do this & i always try to stay within evidence & science realm & avoid ideas that are "out there" but this needs to
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People are talking bla bla bla....who should enforce the total lockdown? Who? Ur fathers? We had the military to instil a little discipline and because u have read 'A Market
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Your declaration of a State of Emergency for the COVID-19 diagnosis criteria for a series of pneumonia and influenza related symptoms and the allegations of the existence of a “novel
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I have swabbed more than twenty truck drivers(unitrans)in the past five or so days..some in quarantine since 23/24th June..the fuel crisis is fuelled by the quarantine that has put almost
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I've gotten many questions about the comments from the WHO about how people who recover from #COVID-19 and have antibodies might not be protected against subsequent infection, so this thread
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Even as a virologist, there’s one insidious type of bacteria that weighs on my mind. Borrelia- carried by ticks, causes Lyme disease. Thank you @pfizer for recognizing that we do
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There’s been a bit of an unpleasant and inaccurate narrative over recent days that the majority of COVID-19 deaths were people who were “at death’s door” in any case. That
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Today I was speaking with aid agencies and African journalists about the preparedness of some developing nations for a #Covid-19 outbreak. They laid bare a grim reality. The Central African
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The riskiest disease in all of EM is a thoracic spinal epidural abscess causing low back pain. 1) beginning symptoms are so vague there’s no way to catch it2) they
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Throughout the pandemic, there have been opposing views on this issue. So... Coronavirus, is it “a type of flu” or not? Was it right to assume at start of the
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Well, just found out an extremely expensive medical thing that shorty needs isn't covered by his insurance. Great. So, this was about a heart murmur, but: I've also discovered that
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COVID Alert, the free #COVID19 exposure notification app, is now available for people in Canada to start using!Download it from either: Apple App store: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/id1520284227 Google Play store: https://play.google.com/s
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Language around infectious diseases tells us what we think about our fellow human beings. We should take lessons from the HIV/AIDS movement and advocates. @marganina is one of those voices
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1/Chadwick Boseman died from colon cancer at 43. I am sad that this talented brother lost his earthly life to this disease at such a young age.Most of us don't
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remember elon musk said he would fix the flint michigan water crisis? did he ever actually do that or? ok fairplay SO apparently there’s an active effort ongoing right now
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I'm going to use this thread as an ongoing list of all of the things primary care docs can be trying to get ahead of in the next couple of
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