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The Grand Scoobah
TheGrandScoobah
The 1918 Flu and the Sacrament:"On November 19, 1918, President Joseph F. Smith died of pneumonia—a lung inflammation caused by the influenza virus. Religious services were still banned at the
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J.B. Handley
jb_handley
1/ [influenza] Vaccine derived virus interference was significantly associated with coronavirushttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7126676/ 2/ “Receiving influenza vaccination may increase the risk of other respiratory viruses, a
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Khushboo Mattoo ghar par hai
MattLaemon
The Spanish Flu of 1918 : A thread The Influenza pandemic of 1918 was a serious pandemic of influenza. It lasted for three years, from January 1918 to December 1920. About 500 million people were infected across
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Buck Sexton
BuckSexton
Here’s what an infectious disease doctor tied to a major nyc hospital told me about this study: “This is probably the worst of study designs: retrospective analysis, with no stated
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Bruce Booth
LifeSciVC
The innate immune system is key for fighting viral infections, but can go overboard with CRS during severe disease. But dampening it early in an infection is probably not smart.
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Bruce Scott
DrBruceScott
Very interesting......https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-scotland-45876204 https://www.gov.scot/news/fewer-deaths-in-winter-2018-19/ https://fullfact.org/online/Excess-winter-deaths-UK/ https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-
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Eric Feigl-Ding
DrEricDing
Followup : the concerning influenza virus dubbed G4- a unique blend of three lineages: one similar to strains in Euro & Asian birds, the H1N1 strain that caused the 2009
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kadhim (^ー^)ノ
kadhim
This narrative about the UK's coronavirus response is quite wrong, to put it plainly: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/01/absolutely-wrong-how-uk-coronavirus-test-strategy-unravelled Here's a document from *2007* where the UK govern
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Tim Mak
timkmak
The 1918/1919 protests against mask wearing and other public health measures have parallels to today We learn through this episode that various groups of Americans have been pushing back against
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Cleavon MD
Cleavon_MD
1918 letter describing Influenza I've treated countless patients with #COVID in NYC and Arizona and I have NEVER seen anything like this deadly virus. 100 years ago during the 1918
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Pajamas It Is
HeckofaLiberal
THREAD: For those still claiming the “longterm effects” are unique to #covid19 haven’t been paying attention to other viral illnesses. Let’s take a look: 1/https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/45/5/1463 Many viral illnesses including
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David States
statesdj
Let’s stop with the “It’s just a bad flu” stuff. NYS serology data shows a 13.9% infection rate across NYS, 21% in NYC. That means ~20k deaths (15k confirmed) among
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BayouCityHistory
BayouCtyHistory
From the Oct. 14, 1918, @HoustonChron: Houston Mayor A.E. Amerman was confined at home for two weeks because of influenza. In other news, a woman is arrested for providing booze
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Mano Manoharan
csmony
Very informative #virtual #journalclub @MaudsleyNHS @KingsIoPPN @ioppnjc on Sir Robin Murray’s paper on “ could history repeat itself?The influenza pandemic of 1918,schizophrenia& immune system “ well chaired by @sameerjauhar @tompollak
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TheRealHiboman- Quarantined
TheRealHiboman
1) If anybody comes across posts saying that the CDC says masks don’t work, here’s a fact-check you can useBasic fact-check:https://www.politifact.com/.../no-cdc-who-study-does-not.../The paper:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-
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el gato malo
boriquagato
this chart is getting a lot of play.it's extremely misleading and does not show what people think it does.mostly, it's showing an artifact of incomplete data for wk 12 2020.always
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