#Infection

1/7 What is the West's response to China's remarkable handling of Covid-19? The answer is simple. Ignore it. In the beginning, the UK govt included the Chinese figures at its
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I was happy to talk to @RDiManno for this BANG ON OPED RE: our provinces continued failure to protect our seniors in LTC.https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2020/12/27/when-in-gods-name-will-we-cease-failing-the-elderly-and-frai
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What happens to hematopoietic transplant recipients who develop #COVID19? Transplant recipients and transplanters have been asking this question ever since the pandemic began. Our analysis using @CIBMTR data is out
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What if 2m/6ft is not enough? I'm concerned our 'opening' guidelines & restrictions may not be considering airborne microdroplet transmission of #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 sufficiently. What does that mean?Let's talk. (Over
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European governments are locking down again due to a Covid-19 resurgence. One problem is a failure to communicate to the public where the main risks lie - notably indoors. Here’s
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A thread on vaccines:Most of us have been vaccinated quite a few times in our lives. As a young child I remember getting the Polio vaccine at “the dispensary” on
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1/ Exercise and Covid-19: A troubling story from Eric Topol this AM got me thinking about COVID-19 and the risk of exercise during active infection and recovery.https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1302344348755849216?s=20 2/ Four caveats
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My piece in The Wire on the third national serosurvey. The headline (~21% prevalence) is probably not a major underestimate. Apparently the antibody test used was less vulnerable to missing
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'For a vaccine to work, our immune system needs to be stimulated to produce a neutralizing antibody, as opposed to a non-neutralizing antibody.'https://wp.me/pccWMe-25  'In some viruses, if a person harbors
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Recent quotes from state epidemiologists & health officials from around the world.... 1/ “The virus has done the so-called 'harvest', has therefore accelerated the clinical path of fragile people. It
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CEE countries: A case study in inevitability of SARS-CoV-2 spreading and seasonality - a THREADEU CEE countries did remarkably well in the 1st wave and were praised as champions. In
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Here (a few tweets down) is a model of the prevalence of B.1.1.7 based on the breakdown of PCR tests by genes N, OR and S. This follows the ONS
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Look at these positivity rates among students in CA, in areas where schools never opened. I will never forgive the Unions & Politicians who advocated to keep schools closed without
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I really hate the way anti-vaxers have co-opted, confounded, and corrupted the concept of herd immunity because it's crucial to how vaccines work and why we can't just vaccinate "high-risk
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20 yrs of medical billing experience and this is the most useless thing ever.You’ve always been able to call and ask the cost of a procedure. However that has very
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global health policy in 2020 has centered around NPI's (non-pharmaceutical interventions) like distancing, masks, school closuresthese have been sold as a way to stop infection as though this were science.this
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