#Disease

Ginko trees are not only beautiful, they're also incredibly cool. They're known as "living fossils" the sole surviving species of trees that grew BEFORE the dinosaurs! The trees are extinct
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OH YIKES THATS CREEPYI just got a letter thru my door from a neighbour offering to convert me to Christianity because "the times are hard right now and the lord
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Today would have been the third Garden Party of the season at Buckingham Palace.The first Garden Parties were held during the reign of Queen Victoria. Did you know that they
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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
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/1 I received many questions from my most recent newsletter. I will do my best to answer them in this thread: Question from Lennart: Is it possible that statins would
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1/10 The current pandemic continues to expose multiple fault lines in our current health system. But it also provides us with so many lessons that we can hopefully learn from
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A misleading headlineNo question about the profound crisis in India but to ascribe it to B.1.617, a variant of interest, in inaccurate, It's not a "double mutant"—there are 13 mutations
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Today I’ll only share one thread with you. I had an online lecture earlier and spent some time preparing other activities for my course All my lectures have been online
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Gonna be honest, I cannot get over how evangelist Christians can use some of the most violent imagery and be completely unaware of how offputting it is. I don't mean
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The Great Barrington declaration is receiving lots of discussion. https://gbdeclaration.org/  GB makes the case for a herd immunity strategy while protecting the elderly. Like @paulmromer I agree that it should
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The government said not to move to 2nd homes BECAUSE it would put pressure on less urban health services. (Evidence in thread below)So by moving from London to Durham (where
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1/ Sunday night rant: I thought I’d take a moment to share my “#COVID breaking point”. A couple months ago, I was talking on the phone with a close family
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I haven't even gone to bed last night yet and today's bullshit coronavirus story is already here, courtesy of @pbleic.Elsevier's journal _Medical Hypotheses_ brings us a paper entitled "The use
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As the evidence for public #facecoverings becomes clearer, I wonder if mandating it will be enough (anecdotally, on public transport where it’s mandatory already, I observed about 50% wearing masks
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Two Days that shocked Nigerians.Yaradua successor GEJ.....The vacuum, power play & the Intrigues. On Monday November 2009, President Yaradua was flown to Jeda Saudi Arabia for treatment for a medical
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Reading the transcript of Whitty/Vallance lecture yesterday. I quote: “so about eight per cent, so 3 million or so people, may have been infected and have antibodies. It means that
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