#Diseases

A common misconception in South African political commentary is that Apartheid was somehow 'capitalist'. This lie is peddled by Apartheid beneficiaries whenever we try to speak of socialism. They ask
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1/x Platelets Can Associate With SARSCoV2 RNA and Are Hyperactivated in C19 (17/9/2020)Quoting,“...HYPERCOAGULATION and THROMBOSIS contribute to lethality of [C19].Platelets are chiefly implicated in thrombosis.[platelets] CAN interact wi
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COVID Update July 16: Anyone can tell you the controversies of today: masks, schools, bars & what to leave open.But we haven’t seen anything yet. What about the controversies of
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1/n I've been gathering and reporting COVID data for several hours every day now for 430ish consecutive days — an arbitrary number, but excuse enough for a thread.Here's to the
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The Wuhan Virology Institute:Completed in 2013 and partially funded by the U.S guvernment and maintained great relations with Canada's National Microbiology Labratoy. The Lab is very well known for its
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A few further thoughts.The reason the White House is suddenly flipping out about this is that they're realizing the die is already cast, and it will be very, very damaging
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Epidemiology is a pseudoscience based on the astonishingly idiotic idea that diseases are programmed to spread & kill according to mathematical curves when there is absolutely no reason to believe
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My book, #TheCancerProblem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain, is being published by @OUPHistory next week. Since we can't do in-person book launches, I thought I'd compile a thread to give you
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How will we know when the Covid-19 pandemic is over in Canada? Has it (the pandemic, not the virus itself) been over for months now? Is what we are seeing
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GROUNDING - SUPERCHARGE YOUR RECOVERY/SLEEP NATURALLYGrounding is the theory that barefoot contact with the earth can produce changes in a variety of physiological measures, including:- Better sleep- Reduced stress- Better
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There are a lot of things I could say about this article, but in the interest of fairness, the authors at least aren’t wrong about the need to use the
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Another #EARobinson first edition arrived: Sonnets 1889-1927. Not particularly valuable, except for a fan like me. But I love how an old book can hold a history. THREAD 1/20 This
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THREADTribute to Ravindra Kaushik. The greatest spy in Indian History. The movie 'Romeo Akbar Walter' with the protagonist Romeo ALI is based on him. Why the name Romeo ALI? He
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Some sunday ruminations on how renewable energy and meat replacements could simply make us happy and harmonious without starting a culture war. First of: green growth doesn't mean less prosperity.
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THREAD: Might the death toll from covid-19 be higher than the official fatalities attributed to it so far? Data emerging from the worst-hit places in Europe suggest so. (1/9) A
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Thread: In the paper he presented @BrookingsEcon back in August, the Bank of England's Andrew Bailey perpetuates myths about the role regulations play in achieving a uniform nationwide currency: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/b
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