#Measles

It's the first Monday of Eastertide here in Hong Kong, a lovely, sunny, breezy day with incredibly nice air quality, and around the world people are dying of a novel
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7 reasons why think immunity to COVID from vaccination or infection will be long-lived (and why I continue to marvel that CEOs of companies who stand to make profit from
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There are lots of talk about promising results for #COVID19 vaccines, and we will keep hearing about more to come, so I wanted to put out a few visualizations to
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1/ When it comes to vaccines, lies cost lives. @GoogleAds is paying vaccine misinformation sites, like Waking Times, to show these brands’ advertisements.Until Google does the right thing, we’re calling
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1. COVID-19/SARS-CoV2 information including links to dashboards, etc.https://jonathanmc.github.io/COVID-19-and-SARS-CoV2-info/2. Ontario COVID-19 cases, from official sources, charted by date, age, gender, region, etc. Updated daily. You ca
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62 years ago, today, in a castle to the north of one of the greatest industrial cities in the world, I came kicking and screaming into this mad world.In all
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New lockdown hobby: perusing the #envhist of pandemics. In honour of Passover, first up is Rinderpest—likely one of the 10 biblical plagues. This nasty little pathogen killed huge numbers of
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Must read piece in the Medical Journal of Australia."Herd immunity" is a terrible idea, requiring 61% of pop. infected to protect remaining 39%.May be up to 9 undetected cases for
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sorry but I can’t tolerate Natives being anti-vax. thousands, MILLIONS, of our ancestors died literally because they were denied access to vaccines and antibiotics for completely preventable diseases. the smallpox
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What do:The BM Gates FoundationCDCChildren’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)National Institutes of Health (including NIMH, NICHD, NIAID)USAIDWorld Health Organization (WHO) &HIV All have in common?International Clinical Research Center (ICRC)ht
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1of9 THREAD #HerdImmunity How to make ourselves healthierWill #CoronaVirus finally kill off anti-vaxxersStudies show unvaccinated children/adults have more robust immune systems, DO NOT get chronic illnesses, & DO NOT die
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The Trump Admin has frozen funds to @WHO & is ramping up threats, including a latest, vague demand to met within 30 days. “This proposal is like removing the windows
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So many friends/family asking me about testing for #COVID19. Here’s my attempt to explain using semi-friendly language. Not one for the purists!1. To understand testing, it’s important to understand a
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If you’ve been wondering about your risks of exposure when you step out here’s something to read. With Oliver Sacks dead, and well Paul Kalanithi also dead, my favorite medical
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CDC's updated webpage on how COVID-19 is spread & prevention tips is now (almost) in line with science!(WHO please do the same!)(Hooray! only 10 months into epidemic & when Trump
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Nigeria has made a lot of progress in preparing and responding to disease outbreaks and epidemics. I remember my early days of public health; some 15yrs ago it's @WHONigeria that
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