#Infections

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Antibody-Dependent Enhancement (ADE) is a complex and poorly understood phenomenon, likely underpinned by different mechanisms, where binding of a virus to suboptimal antibodies enhances severity of the disease, rather than

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TheZWidler

We need to talk about how Covid-19 has been disproportionately impacting and destroying the lives of prisoners. A thread... The U.S. currently incarcerates more of its population than any other

Maria Van Kerkhove

mvankerkhove

Want to know how @WHO guidance is developed? Here’s a brief explainer and:https://twitter.com/mvankerkhove/status/1255917989356019713?s=211/ @WHO is an evidence-based organization. The prevention, detection & control strategies &

hibo wardere

HiboWardere

#nofgm thread about getting period for the first time. Trigger warning. So in our communities no ones discuses period or sex. So you don't know that .you are suppose to

Megan McArdle

asymmetricinfo

Seeing a lot of this circulating on the right, so let me explain why folks are worried even though it is not literally true that every ICU bed in the

Tim Harford

TimHarford

Will it ever end? In November we were celebrating the announcements of several effective vaccines. Now hospitals are overwhelmed and the global death toll is climbing twice as fast as

Asit #UseAirbornePrecautions #Please 😷🪟

akm5376

Sometime early last year, an arbitrary >15 minute limit was placed on classifying close contacts for tracing #Covid_19 transmission. As @jmcrookston puts it, no one knows for sure why 15

Tejaswini Mishra

tejaswini

Super excited to announce our COVID wearables paper that came out online in @natBME today! We show that consumer #Wearables can be used to detect #COVID19 at a #presymptomatic stage.

Alastair McAlpine, MD

AlastairMcA30

As requested by the awesome @sindivanzyl - here’s a SUPER beginner’s guide to the immune system (to help you understand vaccines).Thread (For this thread, pathogen = bacteria, virus, parasite

Jenna Guthmiller

GuthmillerJenna

I just got the booster of the of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine this morning and I’m here to report I got the boost in the SAME arm as the prime.

Tomas Pueyo

tomaspueyo

What was the impact of the article Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now?Now that 2020 is ending (finally), and that Medium has published it was its most read article of

Ejaz Malikzada - اعجاز ملک‌زاده

EjazMalikzada

Talib accounts have #get_out_of_Afghanistan trending on AFG twitter. Reminds me of research I conducted during the September 2019 presidential elections. THREAD: I followed 400 twitter accounts that posted content promoting

Once you know the truth you cannot sleep

lizzywales

IMPORTANT MASK INFORMATION From Anna de BuisseretThe Government has FAILED to conduct a Risk Assessment of the risks to the individual members of the public for the harms caused to

Infectious Diseases

InfectiousDz

The story of Manaus is worrisome1. Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil had an overwhelming initial surge (44% seropositive, likely 76% infected)2. Cases now surging again3. Mutant variants found spreading4. Variants like the

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Big news yesterday was the announcement by UK scientists that the steroid dexamethasone reduced deaths in ventilated #covid19 patients by a third. It was the kind of good news we

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

COVAX facility just published a forecast of what country will receive how much of what #covid19 vaccine in the first half of this year. Lots of caveats of course. This

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