#Disease

Prof Azeem Ibrahim

AzeemIbrahim

Rohingya are now facing a killer even deadlier than the Myanmar military: The Covid-19 epidemic which will decimate the largest refugee camp in the worldMy piece in the @DhakaTribune https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2020/04/12/covid-19-will

Femi😷

Femi_Sorry

Any news outlet who allows journalists to say (unquestioned) that there's no evidence wearing a mask lowers the risk of infection, when the scientific community almost unanimously says it protects

Rob Hogg

SenatorRobHogg

Sept. 24, 2020Six more Iowans have died from COVID-19, pushing Iowa's total to 1,299 since first death six months ago today.Deaths were reported in Guthrie, Ida, Linn, Polk (2), and

RealScientists | Erin

realscientists

It's #epidemiology history time! Up today: vaccination! Smallpox was a deadly disease that can be traced back as far as 3rd century BCE in Egyptian mummies and repeatedly appeared in

James Gunn

JamesGunn

No deaths are good deaths. Many of the deaths from covid, but not all, are older people & people with health conditions - THEY ARE NOT DISPOSABLE. But deaths are

Bruce Booth

LifeSciVC

The innate immune system is key for fighting viral infections, but can go overboard with CRS during severe disease. But dampening it early in an infection is probably not smart.

Walter M Chesnut

Parsifaler

1) SARS-CoV-2 IS A BIOWEAPON OF FATAL TRANSCRIPTIONAL/TRANSLATIONAL ERROR. THIS EXPLAINS CANCER/CACHEXIA, DIABETES, NEURODEGENERATION AND WHY PRION DISEASE IS ITS ULTIMATE DESTINATIONTranscription errors sensitize cells to genes associated

Dr Adam Rutherford

AdamRutherford

It is so perpetually exhausting to have to correct these medically and scientifically illiterate pub bores that somehow have national voices gifted to them not by talent or knowledge, but

Bill Blair

BillBlair

We have to take action based on facts and evidence—not fear and misinformation—if we want to win the fight against COVID-19. FACT: Canada’s borders have been closed to non-essential travel

Edward Nirenberg

ENirenberg

There's a thought I've had that's been bugging me and I'd love feedback from the pros on this point: I really don't like the term "natural immunity" to describe the

Steven Sinofsky

stevesi

Throwing this out there because, well, wondering what I'm missing. Testing for C19 IgA is an immediate goal for many policy makers.If we move to testing to verify people for

David Thunder

davidjthunder

—THREAD BEGINS—NPHET repeatedly cited test-driven case numbers.Can ⁦@ronan_glynn⁩ or NPHET please tell us 1. How many positive cases are active or infectious, given that PCRs detect the virus when it

JepsonLab_UCL

JepsonlabU

Observation. Since moving into the neurological disease field, I've found that many (reviewers!) feel that animal models need to precisely phenocopy human symptoms to be 'valid'. A brief thread on

The Black Emma Frost (Read Pinned Tweet)

iwritecoolstuff

'You're a practicing psychotherapist. Can you define "mental illness"?No. Nobody can.The DSM lists "disorders." How are disorders different from diseases or illnesses?The difference between disease and disorder i

Walter M Chesnut

Parsifaler

1) COVID-19: ARDS, CANCER, AUTOIMMUNITY, NEURODEGENERATION AND THE IL-6 (AGE) AMPLIFIERThe spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, by the dual actions of being a super-antigen and binding to a7 nAChR receptors, allows

Bethan Goulden

bethangoulden

And the 3rd morning of #BSR21 is kicking off. I'm starting the day with "Cardiac complications of rheumatic Disease and anti-rheumatic therapies". The first talk is by @TYoungstein on "Infiltrative