#Infection

Phil Plait

BadAstronomer

This is potentially very big news: Astronomers have found evidence of what *might* — MIGHT — be life on Venus.https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/so-astronomers-may-have-found-evidence-of-life-on-venus 2/ What they found is phosphine, a gas

Khawar Khan

khawar_achakzai

COVID vaccines available in Kashmir are safe in:DiabeticsHypertensives Transplant patients Those with lung diseasesThose with chronic disorders like Rheumatoid arthritis Heart patients (CAD)Immunocompromised (Cancers, HIV etc)All above 18 y

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ArtySmokesPS

The latest ONS infections model has more in common with mine than its previous iterations. I estimate 61751 daily infections in the UK on 14 Oct (ONS England: 45779), rising

Vipin M. Vashishtha

vipintukur

The one ‘puzzle’ that seems still unsolved even after >16 months of the pandemic is, “Which provides superior protection: Natural infection or Vaccines?” Many studies have been conducted in this

Bojan Pancevski

bopanc

Is It Safe to Reopen Schools? The empirical evidence and a growing body of scientific work say yes. My piece via ⁦@WSJ⁩https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-it-safe-to-reopen-schools-these-countries-say-yes-11590928949 Researchers and Europea

Christophe Fraser

ChristoPhraser

Discussions emphasising 'COVID19 is more serious than flu' will probably become moot in the coming days and weeks, and for many people already have, but in case you are engaged

Chloe Booker 📚

chloebooker

THREAD: I don’t agree Mikakos was thrown under a bus. She was the minister in charge of DHHS. On 11/6, two days before @theage ran the first story on hotel

Constantine Singer

ajaxsinger

Thread with an even more helpful perspective. This one is entitledWHAT COVID 19 DOES TO SURVIVORShttps://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1277595193064034312 The estimated death toll for Covid is somewhere between 1 and 2%. Deaths as

Ciarán Murray

C1aranMurray

"New York had 4,749 deaths as a result of influenza and pneumonia in 2018, according to the Centers for Disease Control".NYC = ~50% so ~2400. There have been 1867 deaths

sandeep chakraborty

sanchak74

1/The Cell paper has failed to discuss the most important IFITM2- Interferon-induced transmembrane proteinThese proteins have viral roles, but also"in Restriction of M. tuberculosis Infection"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC491

Ben Hannigan

benhannigan

1/12 Thread on #COVID19 #PPEforTheNHS, and some added questions on #PPE in inpatient #mentalhealth settings. Thoughts on this welcome @theRCN @Unite_MHNA @MHNAUK @MhnExpert @minifeet2 @Safewards @napicu @rcpsych @PHE_uk Beginning with

David Sinclair, PhD

davidasinclair

Getting back to normal life will require knowing who is immune to #coronavirus and who isn't. Here's a thread on how #COVID19 tests work, how long after a #Covid_19 infection

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

THINK LIKE AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST:What does it mean that the median age of new cases is dropping in some areas? I see three possible explanations, not all good. A thread on

Dr Zoë Hyde

DrZoeHyde

Here’s a very good news story. New studies show the Pfizer-BNT vaccine works incredibly well, including against the South African variant (the most immune-evading variant known).But the second dose is

Pranav Kumar

6pranavk

1/n Bayes + Covid This is a good thread on the topic ... and I would like to build upon this.There are MANY MANY micro-policy implications. TL;DR ICMR has done

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kfgibran

Thread tentang Hepatitis B serology untuk medical students & house officers.#tweetorial #FOAMed #hepatitisBDr strange cakap,okay jom 40 yo gentleman, came fever, malaise, arthralgia, yellowish discoloration eyes. He admits of multiple