#Respiratory

THINK LIKE AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST: There are more new confirmed cases each day in the US than at any time during the earlier April peak. But is it really meaningful to
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Asia-Pacific EMF Conference January 26-30, 2004Organized by WHO, USAF Research Laboratories, Thailand Ministry of Public Health Right off the bat- did you catch that?The Air Force Research Laboratory Directed
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I've been reading the discussion on re-infection events, with some now arguing that this is not rare. This is being interpreted at the extremes that protective immunity is not possible.
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THREAD about what it was like to report our story inside of Our Lady of the Lake's coronavirus battle. @DavidGrunfeld was kind enough to send me these photos. I'm so
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1) Quebec on Friday disclosed that #COVID19 hospitalizations dropped by 27 to 684. This represented the steepest decline in hospitalizations since Feb. 15., with most of the decrease taking place
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Vents are still difficult for me. There’s lots of physics and numbers and my brain just does not naturally work like that. I’ve been working through vent details lately, and
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Clinton ordered missile strikes on a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan.Clinton claimed the site was being used by Osama bin Laden to manufacture chemical weapons.It wasn’t.It was a pharmaceutical factory. This
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In my last set of tweets on @MatthewHootonNZ's armchair epidemiological reckons, I emphasised that he does not have the skills to analyse epidemiological data. In his latest Herald piece, he
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Those of you who, unaccountably, still believe your Govt is being straight with you, might wish to know how many people in U.K. die each day of various cancers.It’s about
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The American Academy of Pediatric *finally* weighs in on schools."the AAP strongly advocates that all policy considerations for the coming school year should start with a goal of having students
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What is a virus?So viruses are pieces of RNA (COVID-19) or DNA and typically a protein housing that helps it invade your cells.Because they do not have cells they are
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Get up to date with genetic engineering of INSECT based VIRUSESEmerging Technologies for Low‐Cost, Rapid Vaccine Manufacture (2018)https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/biot.201800376 1/ X Right it's Death by Insect Thread Time
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‘We have 4000 spare ventilators, we can lift the lockdown for a street party’.Can I stop you there -its nonsense and perhaps I can explain why (being an ICU consultant
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(1/6) A #SaturdayMorning thread this #MemorialDayWeekend to clarify some of the confusion on masks and face coverings. Follow along to get the facts & remember – I wear my mask
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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
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As an ER doc for 20 years I thought I'd seen it all: outbreaks, death, you name it. But this #pandemic is the worst. Due to mass layoffs, millions will
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