#Prevalence

"very surprisingly, pregnancy and immunocompromise so far don't seem to be significant risk factor"Risk factors: having specific allele variants on ACE2 gene (X-chromosome) and/or I/D polymorphism on ACE gene, &
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The Live-Dead qRT-PCR problem, the testing industrial complex and its impact on society.I never thought the work I did for the human genome project would be weaponized to lock down
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My thesis on why India is a ‘no invention’ nation. Please read entire thread. The mystery of not inventing or developing any public utility in India is not unique to
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"Rape happens because men are exposed to stimulating imagery. That's why even babies, niqabis, and grandmas get raped"This victim-blaming myth has been untrue when I first heard it a couple
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We need to be very cautious about attributing variation in COVID intensity to government policy, social practices, culture, etc. We just don’t have a good sense yet about what other
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US hospitals saw a steady decline in COV+ patients from 4/15 to 6/15. in the last 10 days, they have seen a change in this trendmany have sought to blame
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one of the key questions today is "does social distancing work to stop covid deaths?"i've done a lot of work on this in recent months.the answer looks to be an
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Our paper “Reconstruction of full transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in Wuhan” is online in Nature. We showed two key features of COVID: High transmissibility (R0=3.5) & high covertness(up to 87%
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My book, #TheCancerProblem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain, is being published by @OUPHistory next week. Since we can't do in-person book launches, I thought I'd compile a thread to give you
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Halloween(ish) thread: we are seeing the beginnings of an archaic revival.Ghosts we thought were dead are coming back, some of very high antiquity indeed.Be afraid. 1) Word of mouth:This seems
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So I’ve got some initial thoughts, assume all disclaimers that this doesn’t represent my firm or any group and so on, just little old me.First let’s talk about what these
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Surgery w #COVID19 series in @EClinicalMed: Sx during COVID incubation & 1st manif post-oplearningsCommon post-op symptomsvigilance & low-threshold for post-op test Outcomes, 20% deathAvoiding Sx protects patientsTest pre-op!Details#COVID19s
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WELCOME TO THIS PHD HIP AND GROIN TWITTER THREAD*PhD of Pim van Klij *The development of the non-perfect hip in young athletes *Defense passed at 10th of March 2021 *Promotor
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"I am not confident - & nor is anybody confident - that the Tier 3 proposals for the highest rates, if we did the absolute base case & nothing more,
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Is claudin-low truly an intrinsic breast cancer subtype? Excited to share our latest study, in which we explore this question! (thread)@thsorlie @j_h_norum @JAVELJA @NatureComms https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15574-5 The intrinsic subtype
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1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 29V stable @ucsfhospitals: 18 cases (down 2), 4 on vents (see last tweet for outcome of one). ZSFG: 25 pts (down 9 from 2d ago),
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