#Cytokine

Louis Ates

MycoLAtes

While varnishing my furniture I thought more about this and am now more apprehensive about the risks of #BCG vaccination for Covid-19. Here's why (1/14)https://twitter.com/MycoLAtes/status/1248872807766818818 The idea behind BCG vaccination

A.M.

bhalomanush

Immunology is one of the hardest and most complicated processes to understand. 27 people have won Nobel Prizes for explaining parts of it. I'm going to hazard explaining how pandemic

DocBurke

burke_doc

We are being inundated with questions regarding COVID-19 antibody testing (blood test) and "Immunity Passports". - This is an evolving science but to understand the potential benefits we must understand

Spotted Toad

toad_spotted

A biochemical mechanism for greater susceptibility of African americans to severe COVID: higher mean levels of IL-6 than Caucasians or Japanese controlling for BMI.( 1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3039107/#!po=14.6259 )IL-6 is cytokin

Guerin Green

GuerinGreen

1/N thread on Nat’l #COVID19 Clinical Rounds Apr 7 relevant images at END of thread 2/N Mark Cardi Emory U:Outcome vary on patient mix, location and resources 3/N Rapid moving,

Amy Proal, PhD

microbeminded2

Boy is it refreshing to read this thread that takes a close look at two studies being used to rationalize #vitamin D supplementation for #COVID-19. It explains how both studies

Bethan Goulden

bethangoulden

Next I'm listening to @StefanSiebert1 presenting on Psoriatic Arthritis - what are the management options in 2021? He highlights that new therapies mean we don't need to just treat it

Chandler Marrs

ChanatLucine

I want to talk about 2 papers that highlight the role of mitochondria in what are likely the progression of symptoms assoc with #COVID19. Note these papers are not about

Rupert Pearse

rupert_pearse

Someone asked if I could explain the various treatments which have been proposed for COVID-19. This is just my take and you may find some doctors disagree. Lots of research

TXinTimeOut

TXstillWatching

I brought ccr5-delta32 mutants, -rh blood types, and using ccr5 antagonists as possible treatment back when Pradhan published the "Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to

Vinay Choksi

VChoksi

After struggling with some @CPSolvers cases and having a case of ESR/CRP negative GCA @IMResidencyDuke, I wanted to dive deeper into ESR and CRP to interpret them better. Thanks to

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

Many new studies suggest that one of the fundamental assumptions about COVID that 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚 is susceptible, may be wrong. CAUTION: However, this doesn’t mean that we relax any precautions, coz

Roland Baker

RolandBakerIII

Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic with Systems Biology Posted April 10, 2020. [Everything we "know" about SARS-CoV-2 now in question!]https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.06.028712v1 The commonly accepted view that SARS-CoV-2 ent

Sanjum S. Sethi MD, MPH

sanjum

I don’t usually rant on social media. However, after a week of service in the ICU, I’d like to get a few things off my chest. #COVID19 (1/10) 1) This

Edward Nirenberg

ENirenberg

I've gotten many questions about the comments from the WHO about how people who recover from #COVID-19 and have antibodies might not be protected against subsequent infection, so this thread

🌞 Sol Brah 🌞

SolBrah

NICOTINE - The Writer's Nootropic (THREAD) This curious and misrepresented compound has a myriad of interesting benefits, including increases in wakefulness, motivation, alertness and creativity, as well as multiple neuroprotective be