#Disease

Sarah

sass_byname

Why is nobody talking about viral interference? (Infection with one virus can interfere with the ability of another virus to infect a host at the same time, providing temporary protection).

Jay Dolmage

JayDolmage

Eugenics is not an idea from another time.It’s not a Nazi thing.North American eugenics has been tremendously influential and deadly effective.It’s not an early twentieth-century thing. 1/13 It never went

Shaun Lawson

shaunjlawson

There will, of course, be plenty of people who really aren't bothered whether Boris Johnson lives or dies. Some might even quietly celebrate the worst happening.I'm not here to attack

Pami

pamiposts

Saturday: Allergy reactionSunday: Hit the Wall of FatigueMonday: Post-nasal drip swells left tonsil/aura migraineTuesday: Tonsil stones join inWednesday: Major acid reflux with double visionWorked out the trigger pattern and put

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

COVID Update July 31: We have spent months in the US being perfect hosts to the virus while most of the world has flattened it. What will change in August?

Justine Rochot 纪思婷

jrochot

While reading a bunch of stuff on the history of the use of masks in China yesterday, I discovered a few old pictures I had never seen before. They may

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luriodt

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Tony Duffy 💙

Existential_Doc

Akathisa : a quick thread“ I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes. “Charlotte Brontë, Jane EyreGreek: kathizien means “to sit”Akathisia

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

This recommendation from @CDCgov, coupled with the rationale given, beggars belief. This is thinest of absence-of-evidence arguments. Imagine what would have to be true of young adults for re-entry testing

Books & Health

oumissa_inspire

“Sometimes, a single person's clarity can unnerve a muddled crowd.”The Ministry of Utmost Happinessby Arundhati RoyGenre: Fiction |Publisher: Knopf |2017Review thread /1 There are books that cast a light on

Dr Dominic Pimenta

DrDomPimenta

This upset a lot of people. So maybe I should explain what I mean. 1) We are currently attempting to live “with” Covid- with sustained community transmission and continued lifting

Kristen

AnteKrist

Since Kensington is trending, here's some historical context from me, your favorite 7th generation poor white Kensington resident. When we talk about the socioeconomic dynamics of Kensington, it is very

Menstruating Woman

BloodyStree

#TIL We often confuse between two things: "epistemic bubbles" & "echo chambers". We should know the disease before choosing the proper cure. By applying one treatment to another, we might

Tom Hickman

TomRHickman

A long thread on the making of today’s face covering regulations and some reflections on coronavirus law-making in general. Consider this timeline: 13 July: Gov announces face masks are to

Prof Bunny Hugger 🌍🌹🌱💙 #ClimateAction

JKSteinberger

I agree with others that Roger Hallam is wrong when he says that "science predicts" six billion will die this century due to climate change. But the lack of scientific

Calla Wahlquist

callapilla

Daniel Andrews's sheer delight at being able to sit down while the associate professors Wai-Hong Tham and Julian Elliott take the questions is, I think, the happiest he's been in