#Coronavírus

Today's find from medRxiv: "SARS-CoV-2 viral load peaks prior to symptom onset: a systematic review and individual-pooled analysis of coronavirus viral load from 66 studies"(A #medlibs thread touching on #systematicreview
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Today I've been trying to get my head around the food supply issues caused by #COVID19 My first ever job in the civil service was as a food economist so
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BILLIONS of Tax-payers' £ spaffed on dubious contracts to Palantir, Faculty, Serco, Sitel, Randox, Public First, Aventis, Pestfix, Ayanda, etc.Why isn't Govt public procurement abuse + Towns Fund misallocation all
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1/There's been a resurgence in the myth that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, kills ~0.26% of the people it infects in the US.In other words: The infection fatality rate
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Gonna track news of higher ed layoffs as information drops. @ me if you see more. Harvard*: layoffs of nearly all dining workers, w/ unionized direct hires getting 30-days pay.
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Stolen:Ok.. I don't wanna call some of y'all stupid.. But here you go For the armchair doctors commenting on Trump question about sunlight and disinfectant therapy...This is what he was
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The price of oil is cratering.On the futures exchange, the price of oil for May delivery has fallen to $8!That is unimaginably low. Insanely low. Historically low.1/https://twitter.com/thestalwart/status/1252277424986914818 Oil is traded
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The more I think about coronavirus, the more I think there are three key questions that need to be resolved:1. What's the objective?2. Should we manage risk or promote virtue?3.
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Pet salons — yes, pet salons — were among the first businesses allowed to reopen as Bangkok's coronavirus lockdown eased.What makes them such an important industry in Thailand? @hkbeech explains.https://nyti.ms/2YQAW4w 
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It is Hermes' Birthday today!Here's a picture from when he first came home Here he is meeting Mowgli they became friends Good friends Once upon a non-coronavirus time they watched
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People in the US are acting like the pandemic is over. But the truth is that we are complicit in one of the biggest moral catastrophes in history. While rich
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Much rhetoric around obesity as a critical pre-existing condition for Covid-19. A key lesson from H1N1 epidemic: meta analyses (n=25,189) showed an odds ratio of 1.8 for fatality amongst obese
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This Harvard Prof absolutely NAILS it. Most important piece I've read on Covid. Vaccines will take time but what do we do now? Read for the answer. Coles Notes (that's
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DEBATE THREAD:It will be painful, but I'm watching it.And will add comments along the way!#Election2020 CORONAVIRUS: Trump provides no details as to how he would "lead" the nation through
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1. Thread on a way we can possibly take some positives from the negative that is currently gripping the world.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/21/milan-seeks-to-prevent-post-crisis-return-of-traffic-pollution 2. I was talking to one of my 2
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NEW/EXC: GPs and end-of-life carers calling for a relaxation of the "Shipman" rules over controlled drugs after some patients face unnecessarily distressing #coronavirus deaths at home because of delays in
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