#Infection

Dr Nisreen Alwan 🌻

Dr2NisreenAlwan

Got asked: are we creating #LongCovid by talking about it? No Here’s why:1. Long term illness triggered by viral infection not new & in a pandemic bound to be enormous2.

Berci Meskó, MD, PhD

Berci

1/4 Here is the scientific consensus about COVID-19 as of today. All these statements are supported by scientific evidence.#covid19 #covid #healthcarehttps://www.thelancet.com/lancet/article/s0140-6736(20)32153-x 2/41) The infection fatalit

Perran Ross

MosWhisperer

New paper on the stability of Wolbachia in mosquitoes is out today on bioRxiv. Thread.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/853473v1 Remember the wMelPop or ‘popcorn’ strain of Wolbachia? It was introduced into mosquitoes to shorten

Bulama Bukarti

bulamabukarti

Yesterday, @KNSMOH announced 12 new cases & first Covid-19 death in Kano. This rises total cases to 21 and makes Kano the 3rd state in Nigeria. This for a state

Medicus

MedicusFR

Le Pr Didier Raoult. Ou comment les médias vous ont vendu un expert qui n'en est pas ? Thread d'explication sur une erreur classique consistant à croire qu'un expert dans

Allen Cheng

peripatetical

"Case fatality risk" has various definitions, and it is important to know what it's referring to. This has resulted in substantial confusion when trying to compare influenza and COVID-19. It's

Arthur Chu

arthur_affect

So you die if you already have a heart condition (whether you know it or not) or else you now have a heart conditionIt's losing one "strike", like getting a

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haiclark

im in a situation. basically my whole preteen& teenage years I’ve been on depo because they told me my ovaries were overworking themselves & if continued I wouldn’t be able

Christopher Bowles

Bowleskov

So a summary of the Misconduct of #DominicCummings 1. Returned to work after discovering someone in his household had suspected Covid-19.2. Dominic and his wife chose to risk a Journey

Rich

RockboltG

Small thread on why words are important, using @piersmorgan as an exampleHere he misuses the words 'surges' and 'spike' to imply deaths are still accelerating. In actual fact it seems

Chris Lowndes

chrislowndes

Everyone is a consumerConsumer behaviour is one of the most measured and understood data types available globallyAny ad or message containing reference to COVID-19 currently generates more negative that positive

Emily Deans MD 👻

evolutionarypsy

Really interesting (follows up on the case of two sets of brothers with severe COVID-19)https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/hidden-immune-weakness-found-14-gravely-ill-covid-19-patients We produce interferons in response to infections.

Aproko Doctor

aproko_doctor

Think of your bladder as a balloon that fills up with urine.At a point when it's "full", your brain gets the signal to empty it, if you override that signal,

Patrick Elliot

PatrickElliot_

I'm not an expert, but I have taken the time to fact check this tweet because it’s doing numbers – by actually reading the studies/articles it links to – and

Ryan Cummings

Pol_Sec_Analyst

South Africa's relatively low number of #covid19 infection & mortality rates, is the only reason why there is debate regarding the merits of lockdown. Its initiation - as elsewhere -

Faisal Islam

faisalislam

NEW:Over a third - 36% of care homes in England, 5,546 out of 15,514 have now reported an acute respiratory outbreak of COVID-19 in past two months.47% of care homes