#Disease

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

I sometimes see people making the mistaken assumption that once a group that make up X% of COVID hospitalisations/deaths are vaccinated, it will reduce hospitalisations/deaths by the same %, even

Health Literate

HealthLiterate

With @pfizer and @BioNTech_Group submitting their latest COVID-19 vaccine results, let's dive into what it means! The vaccine is currently in phase 3, which tests for safety and efficacy in

The Sharing Scientist

ScienceShared

Given that global eradication of SARS-CoV-2 is just not going to happen, and in the UK 2 vaccine doses are likely to be given to all adults by the end

Guns, Ganders, and Goats

MENA_Conflict

Just a clarification: you shouldn't be out hunting possums for funsies but they really are *not* that efficient at killing ticks. They only kill the ones they find on their

Bill Kristol

BillKristol

1. Goodbye, 2020In Memoriam-- Alfred Lord TennysonRing out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night;Ring out, wild bells,

COVID19 Saliva Study

SalivaStudy

Antibodies that circulate through the blood differ from secreted antibodies (i.e. in the nose or saliva) which protect mucosal tissues. We are profiling the secreted antibodies to get a better

Anosognosiogenesis

pookleblinky

Today's covid denialists are tomorrow's openly eugenicist "these disabled people are a drain on society"Literally. 13 years after the Spanish flu, the very first people the nazis targeted were disabled

Irene Tosetti

itosettiMD_MBA

COVID-19 in Africa: A pair of studies lays out sobering COVID-19 data for Africa, and for Zambia in particular. In The BMJ, researchers collected postmortem nasopharyngeal samples from nearly 400

Ken Jaques 🇨🇦

kenjaques

I'm tired. A thread.Several years ago I attended an awesome health training program. A fun exercise we did in the 12 week program was a spoon-bending workshop. It was fun.

Derek Pinkerton, MD

TheNephromancer

1/Today I diagnosed an ear infection on the transplant Nephrology consult service. An immunosuppressed patient who came in with fevers with what we thought was a slam dunk UTI was

el gato malo

boriquagato

this study posits that cov-19 can survive in contagious form for up to 8 days on salmon when kept at temperatures used for cold chain shipment and storage.this is preliminary

Andrew💙Croxford

andrew_croxford

The latest craze: ‘The vaccine hasn’t been shown to prevent transmission’. There are MANY detailed threads on this, but there are some principles which make it nigh-on-impossible for this not

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

There's a fascist movement in this country that attempted a coup this week.THE CAPITOL COUP OF 2021 is a video that explains how this happened and details the very real

Joseph Puopolo 😷 🧪 💉

jpuopolo

Don't let anyone tell you that the US is doing well compared to Canada. Even if you 10x the numbers to account for population. Objectively they are far worse. Take

david hepburn

apnoeaboy

So. New big lockdowns. First thing to say is this is SHIT. It’s Shit timing, it’s shit for businesses and it’s shit for families and people who are already Isolated

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

So now we know London will join millions of others in T3Awkward questions1) How much difference do we really expect this to make in seven days from Wednesday when they're

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