#Measles

On COVID-19 and catching it from people just "talking or breathing: Yes, there have been incidents that make it seem that this is sometimes the case. However, what's going on

Corey Lynn - Corey's Digs

This is excellent news! Listen to what our President says about the WHO. Then read my next tweet and see just how much we fund the WHO for HIV alone.https://twitter.com/TheSpeaker2018/status/1247648794344173568

Antivaxxers like to talk about "doing the research," but seem woefully inept at interpreting evidence. They depend entirely on what the author claims to have done. But, that's not evidence:

Convalescent serum: the new hydroxychloroquine. Convalescent serum has a long and successful history in fighting disease.But that doesn't mean that it will necessarily succeed for *any* disease.It needs to be

If we’re going to critically review NZ’s response, we need to ask why, in the almost prophetic words of David Skegg (5 Feb 2020)“New Zealand is one of the few

Dr. Ajoke Weight Loss

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Left arm- BCGLeft arm- measlesMouth -oral polio, vit A,RotavirusRight arm - yellow feverRight thigh-hep BLeft thigh- pentaRight thigh- injected polio vaccineRT, tag a parent.. a thread on site and timing

Forrest Maready

In this thread, I'm going to present a collection songs, comics, and advertisements showing how no one really cared or worried about a #measles infection before the vaccine came out.

Herd immunity is magical. It's honestly probably the reason we have people, and the degree of stability and civilization we've been able to achieve. It slows the spread of infection,

Can we please stop repeating the 'Herd immunity' line? 1/nhttps://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1248499777580322817 Herd Immunity is a vaccine concept. High levels of vaccination mean infectious diseases are suppressed (or eliminated) bec

Anosognosiogenesis

It's so fucking weird that like 60 years ago scientists were able to make a vaccine for measles, say "it'll stop measles from killing you," and then distribute it so

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

There seems to be a common fundamental misunderstanding of the concept of herd immunity, which leads to unhelpful cross talk. Herd immunity is not more (or less) a harmful concept

Lots of recent discussion about #SARSCoV2 re-infections, with 2 pre-prints describing possible examples. To contextualize these re-infections, I'd like to discuss the following papers, which document same-season re-infection with influe

Anosognosiogenesis

Coronavirus is several times more contagious than flu, several times more deadly than flu, but it is very low on the scale of truly awful possible pandemics.It's the easy mode,

all of the english text in apink’s one & six album - a slightly odd thread “woman wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well

This pandemic should upend how biologists think about virus transmission—for the better. My greatest regret is having parroted received wisdom early on. I said our @NEJM aerosol stability findings were

Dr. Jaime Friedman

DrJaimeFriedman

Some people didn’t quite understand what I meant by this tweet so here is a tweetorial for you.To be fair, I had 5 words or less.https://twitter.com/drjaimefriedman/status/1264225498038558720 Fever is one of