#Respiratory

Yesterday, China awarded the highest honors to experts who have contributed to the fight against covid19.Just kindly remind you how the US treats their experts during this pandemic.A thread1ļ¼‰Steve Linick:
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As promised, this is a thread I'm titling: "Mask mandates are Anti-Science nonsense".In this thread I will be sharing 100+ years worth of scientific research into the efficacy of masks
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THREAD --> This is Natalie. When I first spoke with her, she hadn't left her parents' basement in 43 days because she'd tested positive for #Covid19 twice and feared infecting
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Delayed antibiotics are a bad idea. New RCT. New thread. 1/12@theresa_rowe1 and I wrote about this in @JAMA_current.A new -- and very good -- RCT in Pediatrics confirms problems with
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ā€˜The current approach begins with incomplete lockdowns with no defined goals, travel restrictions that let the rich get away with murder and endless public health chatter about bending curves followed
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What is corona virus? Officially itā€™s a mix of bat, Malayan pangolin, and its closest relative is Bat as well as SARS-CoV. Once inside the body it attaches via a
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1. @POTUS @RealDonaldTrump and his @SenateGOP are now paying the price of a fully radicalized base. The @RupertMurdoch @BreitbartNews right-wing lunatic fringe propaganda machine has done a remarkably good job
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1/ Thread on the relative importance of transmission modesA very difficult question, everyone reluctant to guess. As evidence accumulates, I decided to venture a guess, hoping to start some discussion.
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Its so weird seeing the first anniversary of the Arrowe Park quarantine of the Wuhan evacuees, especially as people in the local hospital were already sick with what must have
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After viewing million of records about the conspiracy theories and methods followed by implanting false ideas into people's minds about the mRNA corona vaccines (Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech), I want to
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1) This is why scientific debate is SO IMPORTANT. With censorship of scientific and medical professionals, innovation and discovery is STUNTED! Maybe they want that? In a discussion with @flavinkins
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there has been recent media interest in Scotland in MIS-C, a rare but severe complication of coronavirus disease in childrenbut how common has COVID-19 been in this age group? a
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2015: "To examine the emergence potential (the potential to infect humans) of circulating batĀ CoVs,Ā weĀ builtĀ aĀ chimericĀ virusĀ encodingĀ aĀ novel,Ā zoonoticĀ CoVĀ spikeĀ protein -fromĀ theĀ RsSHC014-CoVĀ sequenceĀ that was isolat
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1/ TL:DR - @who published a massive review/meta-analysis of interventions for flu epidemics in 2019, found "moderate" evidence AGAINST using masks. (They actually missed the 2015 Vietnam study, yet another
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Oy. Schools. This is really tough. As we debate risk/benefit, understanding whether schools are a major source of transmission to the community (and high risk people) is the billion dollar
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New series; #theophylline was extracted from green/black tea leaves in 19thC; a natural derivative of the purine ā€˜xanthineā€™ & structurally similar to caffeine. Used 1902 as diuretic & since 1930s
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