#Infectious

A suspected case of bubonic plague has been reported to authorities in ChinaIt’s not known how the patient got infected, but the country is on alertThe plague is one of
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Trying to explain what's going on in Britain to a friend abroad: we have a fake lockdown where everyone still goes out and half the country are still going to
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We recognise that this is a difficult time for many of us & so we'd like to highlight some mental health resources that are available. @EquityUK mental health & well-being
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As hard as working & mothering is at the moment, I have absolutely loved spending time with and relearning about my 4 year old. Here are some things I'm really
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Incredibly sad to report the news that Battle of Arnhem veteran, Sandy Cortmann passed away earlier this evening at his care home in Aberdeen. The 97-year-old has spent the last
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The @GOP has responded to catastrophically to #COVID19 because over the decades their party has been reduced to little more than holding voter attention through culture wars and social wedge
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The mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) are kind of brilliant at a science level. I’ve had a few people in my real non-Twitter life ask me to explain how it
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I will be live tweeting a 5-year-old @TEDTalks given by American business tycoon, philanthropist and @Microsoft co-founder, @BillGates. “The next outbreak? We’re not ready.” Which eerily relates directly to the
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Some more intel possibly linking COVID19 to the mysterious vaping illness outbreak in the US in mid-late 2019.Fort Detrick, MD army bio lab is a suspect. There are 4 images
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As an ER doc in a rural county with spiking cases of #coronavirus, we need @realDonaldTrump's new daily briefings about the #pandemic to be *much* different from last time. No
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So, in 2020 it finally happened: I lost my writing mojo, and it was TERRIBLE. I felt hamstrung: creativity is how I keep my brain happy and functional, but suddenly
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ateez member details: a thread i know for a fact none of this makes sense to anyone but me but these were fun to think of. also if they’re bad
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JUST POSTED: A Readers Guide to the "Red Dawn" Emails. These are now vital historical documents. Primary source documents that researchers will turn to for decades to come. Read them
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While there are reports #coronavirus is mutating rapidly, becoming more transmissible, can be spread asymptomatically, ALL of this is beyond preliminary, based on very limited data. Rushing to judgment, rumor-mongering,
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herd immunity crops up a lot in my inbox over recent days a thread 1/n a lot now seem of the view that we should just simply do a rebalance
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On Mar 24, we had ~800 #COVID deaths in the US. On Apr 4, when the count was at ~8,000, I predicted ~20,000 deaths by Easter Sunday, Apr 12.My prediction
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