#Respiratory

Our Transport, Health and Urban Design Research Lab @unimelb and @msdsocial is very pleased to be recipients of a significant @nhmrc research grant to investigate urban design and health outcomes
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So I’m hearing many myths about #COVID-19 and would like to quickly clear the record. Coronavirus will go away in Sumer months. Wrong. Previous pandemics didn’t follow weather patterns plus
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Truly unfortunate result of the careless and contradictory narratives the public has been given by the Holy Annointed Expert ClassLiterally yday I was startled to hear my dad (v. smart
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I repeatedly say nothing is new. I have posted 100 years of history here. Here is one closer to home.People keep saying SARS doesn't travel through the air.Here is Booth
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Our paper on #ACE2 and #TMPRSS2 variation–the genes coding for the main receptors for #SARSCoV2 in our cells–in savanna monkeys (genus #Chlorocebus, or #vervets) is just out in @PLOSONE! Let
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On herd immunity.Herd immunity is when sufficiently high % of population are immune, so that an infected individual pass the infection to
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Travel restrictions helped Vietnam control #covid19 — as part of a robust public health response.This doesn't mean they'll work for every country, or that they're needed for every health threat.https://www.vox.com/22346085/cov
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1/ How do you know that the pro-lockdown+face mask crowd are losing the war & getting increasingly desperate? They’re now using identity politics instead of #science in their arguments. Let
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What do we know about Vitamin C and #COVID19 so far?The role of #VitaminC goes beyond immunity-boosting & the micronutrient at high dose is crucial to prevent severity. Making a
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Lessons from my family's ordeal with COVID-191. If you can afford it, test early, ideally day 2 of fever. Every fever is COVID unless proven otherwise.2. Isolate vulnerable family members
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An Anaesthetist explaining how stuff works: a thread.....There has been a lot on Twitter about whether wearing masks reduce your oxygen levels. Some of it, depressingly, from people who should
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One of the problems with the “herd immunity” narrative is that we don’t know the duration of immunity to SARS-COV-2.For other coronaviruses, and different diseases like malaria, immunity is not
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ICYMI, @ldtimmerman asked me to write a brief piece about clotting and COVID-19. It was kind of a blast from the past and we really fun to write. It was
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1/?No new cases today but some new information was released. Provincial COVID-19 Surveillance is the latest in Manitoba’s effort to quietly inform. The following relate to cases up to and
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Everyone who thinks coronavirus is harmless or doesn’t matter should rethink that opinion immediately.This is an extremely dangerous pathogen with wide spreading implications, including neurological impairment, brain, lung, heart &
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Is farting an aerosol-generating procedure?A tweetorial
 When I was researching this article on aerosol-generating procedures the question just popped into my mind.https://dontforgetthebubbles.com/aerosol-generating-procedures/ And it see
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