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Catherine Moore 🦠🧬🇪🇺🏴🇬🇧
SmallRedOne
In ‘normal seasons’ although we call October 1st the start of the flu season. We don’t see influenza starting to circulate widely until usually late November. At this time we’re
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Jen Heemstra
jenheemstra
As scientists race toward a vaccine for Covid-19, you may be wondering how it’s going to be possible to develop an effective vaccine for this virus when the flu shot
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Arlen Parsa
arlenparsa
During the 1918 influenza outbreak, San Francisco closed non-essential businesses.Cases went down and they quickly reopened, thinking they had won.But then deaths DOUBLED after they prematurely declared victory. Many refused
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Allen Cheng
peripatetical
There's been a lot of discussion about "excess mortality", which I've mentioned previously. A short thread about some limitations.https://twitter.com/peripatetical/status/1253115315677888514 This method has been traditionally used f
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Alex Berenson
AlexBerenson
1/ So this tweet about pneumonia deaths in Florida, claiming the state usually has far fewer pneumonia deaths than it has had this year, is - how do I put
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Prof Francois Balloux
BallouxFrancois
Many discussions about #COVID19 boil down to wether the virus is 'just like the flu' or 'nothing like the flu'. As such, I felt it may be useful to provide
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Dr Clare Craig
ClareCraigPath
Liverpool University Trust has had the most COVID deaths since September of any NHS trust. From 01/09/20 until 25/10/20 there have been 140 'COVID' deaths. This is 27% of all
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Dr. Thomas Binder, MD
Thomas_Binder
Every health care system is somewhat stressed during the Influenza season. While Italy was hit by #SARSCoV2 probably at almost peak Influenza, other countries, e.g. Switzerland, are in Influenza decline
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Justin Hart
justin_hart
1/ OK. Lots of charts making their way around comparing deaths Year-over-Year. I pulled the data from the CDC for the last 3 years comparing influenza, pneumonia, COVID-19 and ALL
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Justin Fox
foxjust
This so totally confirms my priors that of course I believe it. :-) But it's also almost by definition a more meaningful result than the ones that have come out
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Bloom Lab
jbloom_lab
Lots of recent discussion about #SARSCoV2 re-infections, with 2 pre-prints describing possible examples. To contextualize these re-infections, I'd like to discuss the following papers, which document same-season re-infection with influe
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Bruce Booth
LifeSciVC
As I understand it (h/t @ArtKrieg), HCQ/CQ block innate receptors like TLR7/8/9. Blocking these early during a SARS-CoV2 infection could exacerbate, not help in treating, COVID. Later in disease, during
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Sarah Carrier
CarrierScarier
I offer a #pandemic timeline for UNC & Chapel Hill - let's go back to 1918 to see what's possibly relevant for today: First weeks of Oct 1918 pandemic hits
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Catherine Moore 🦠🧬🇪🇺🏴🇬🇧
SmallRedOne
We do NOT routinely use serology to diagnose or even confirm past infection with ANY respiratory virus. Even influenza. Few labs may still use complement fixation tests, but they require
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Dr Liz Allen
DrDemography
It appears the government response to #coronavirusaus is pretty much straight from the findings and recommendations of the Spanish influenza (circa 1920, NSW) The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1919 struck
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Archer ⭐⭐⭐
Archer2513
Did the Lockdown actually INCREASE the number of deaths due to COVID-19, instead of reducing it??Upon investigating the CDC data of COVID-19 and Pneumonia deaths, it is extremely clear that
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