#Disease

Christopher Snowdon

cjsnowdon

This 'investigation' rewrites history so much that it amounts to a lie. The central conceit is that the government was set on a herd immunity strategy while scientists and modellers

el gato malo

boriquagato

yesterday, i posted this thread about the suggestive timing on the rise in US hospitalizations vs protests.the biggest pushback, as expected, was "but NYC had protests and no spike."i think

ERMDMom

SusyDemeester

Do you know what a ventilator is?It’s ok if you don’t. I doubt most Americans do. It's unlikely that our Nation’s “leaders” have any idea what a ventilator is either.

Thiago Carvalho

CyrilPedia

'Because COVID19 is a multisystem condition, understanding the recovery and rehabilitation process in infectious-disease survivors is also important; however, this aspect of infectious-disease treatment is highly neglected.'@theayre

Fifty Shades of Whey

davenewworld_2

I never shared this but I was a teenage addict and my only crime was drug possession. It started with prescription meds and escalated. Police didn't help. They beat me

The Disruptive Physician

DocEvenhouse

1 -Here's what I know + PCR test results do not equal clinical disease. Immunity occurs at many levels, IgA mucosal, T-cell immunity, innate memory cells and finally IgG. IgG

Ask An Entomologist

BugQuestions

When the first white settlers arrived in Montana, the native Salish people warned them to not settle the West side of the Bitterroot River.Ignoring these warnings, a small group of

Prof. Akiko Iwasaki

VirusesImmunity

An excellent new study by @BrodinPetter’s team on the differences between MIS-C and Kawasaki disease. This is incredibly timely and informative. Here are a couple of highlights. (1/)https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)31157-0

Adam Rawnsley

arawnsley

Trying to imagine what it feels like to be Bill Gates and have spent the past few years warning about a pandemic disease, see it happen, pledge billions of your

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grumpy_tearex

So Tories lining up saying Johnson will be okay because he is a 'fighter' are implying that the 6000+ who have died in this country from coronavirus did so because

Ed Ostrin, MD, PhD

phlegmMDPhD

There's an emerging theory that the profound hypoxia by COVID is due to a sort of hemoglobinopathy caused by direct viral protein binding to heme. I suppose anything is possible,

Lu ⁷𖧵

btxkarma

why rice is superior A thread 1) Rice has more starch in it, hence is easier to digest. 2) Rice provides a higher degree of folate, a water-soluble B-vitamin, than

Elly Howse

ellyhowse

What does the future hold for chronic disease #prevention research? New paper from @TAPPCentre @LucieRychetnik @leahmarksy @profaw out today in @anzjph https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1753-6405.13028 1/n This commentary is

gin

radioheadedout

Who Can Give Blood? (thread)Age: 18 to 65 years old. Above that, it comes down to the overall health status.Weight: on average >60Kg for men, >50Kg for women.If you are

Avik Roy

Avik

New @FREOPP: There is no request I get more often than to compare the risk of fatality from #COVID19 vs. the flu by age bracket. So I’ve put one together,

Lucy Walker Lab UCL

LucyWalkerlab

IL-6 is emerging as a key predictor of critical illness in #COVID19. A round-up of some recent (pre-review) data in this thread. 1/6 Herold et al. 40 #COVID19 patients, University