#Immune

1/ Thread on immunity in the respiratory system: how it does and doesn't work (i.e. myths), simplified as much as I could. I’ll use the apropos of a new press
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Top 10 #FakeNews of the week #Coronavirus: 1. A video clip shared by #KiranBedi on Twitter with the claim that the eggs thrown away by people due to #coronavirus
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From Jaya Bachchan to Hema Malini, Taapsee Pannu, Swara Bhasker, Richa Chadha, Renuka Sahane, Dia Mirza, Twinkle Khanna and, to an extent, Sonam Kapoor; it’s the women who have unabashedly
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If you're wondering why #ReadyPlayerTwo is getting such a brutal reception, I'm happy to explain.A thread.https://amzn.to/2HvRBEp  At some point in the late 70s / early 80s, corporate America realised it
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the place that i learned how to be a writer was the Houston Press, the big alt-weekly in houston — this was like 2008 or something — i didn't have
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1/ A quick thread exploring Bitcoin’s survivability. Any cryptocurrency that cannot (feasibly) survive a nation-state level attack is pointless. Simply delaying their inevitable demise. Let’s go 2/ Bitcoin is
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Our world’s mental health is currently in shamblesThe stress of daily uncertainty and fear wreaks havoc on your mindYour mood worsens, productivity & energy levels plummetThis lockdown may have broken
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Let’s talk about B.1.617. It is unlikely it will be able to evade vaccine-induced immunity. Why?•Vaccines are polyclonal (Abs)•Mutations compared to VOCs•CD8+ T-cells covering 52 epitopes across the spike protein•CD4+
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1) I wanted share some data from a manuscript that just wen online at https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.30.20085613v1. This was spearheaded by the fantastic Dr. Ania Wajnberg in collaboration with many parts of
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(1/) I've been sick. Really sick. Severe case of pneumonia caused by a virus called Human Metapneumovirus. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1539100/A cold typically, unless you are in one of the high risk groups.
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Everybody is talking about QuantumScape lately, so let's have at it. QuantumScape is a company previously formed to develop an "all-electron battery"; on the failure of that concept, they jumped
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Several Questions arise on what was the research going on for Development of SARS-CoV2 i.e. Covid-19 or what we call #WuhanCoronavirus or #CCPVirus ! Lets glance through scientific research going
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A thread about ICU admission decisionsThere seems to be lots of (mis)information about how intensive care doctors decide whether a patient would benefit from coming to ICU. I thought I’d
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further notes about covid and indiaA thread http://lawpowerandjustice.com/2021/05/10/further-notes-about-covid-and-india/ 10 May 2021 The New York Times (Marshal, 5/9/21) reported an increasing number of potentially fatal fungal infection
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Deep Dive!This is an important thread about testing for SARS-CoV-2 which will explain:-why herd immunity is possible at 10-20%-why testing has really let us down and led to bad policy
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A misleading headlineNo question about the profound crisis in India but to ascribe it to B.1.617, a variant of interest, in inaccurate, It's not a "double mutant"—there are 13 mutations
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