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ResearcHers Code

ResearcHersCode

First of all: about me and my background! I am an alumna of @IowaStateU (Genetics, 2007) and worked in genetics and microbiology research @ISUVetMed We looked at the spread of

Jess Potter

DrJessPotter

I continue to hear a genetic relationship between ethnicity and #COVID19 invoked in both explicit and implicit ways among medical colleagues. In this thread I argue, in the race to

DrFlo

ProfFJWilliams

People often feel comfortable taking anger out on women because we have been culturally trained to de-escalate rather than respond with anger and/or violence and I’m sick of it. A

Andrew Petrosoniak

petrosoniak

THREAD: This wk, @SickKidsNews published a proposed approach to return to school. It generated a spectrum of opinions on social media & TV/radio. https://www.sickkids.ca/PDFs/About-SickKids/81407-COVID19-Recommendations-for-School-Reope

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[QUICK THREAD: CANNON TO KILL VIRUSES?]1/21This news attached here made headlines on all mainstream rags earlier this month. It speaks of a groundbreaking device that can kill coronaviruses with electron

Prof Jayant Vaidya

jsvaidya

International recommendations for single-dose TARGIT-IORT during lumpectomy for #breastcancer: it is non-inferior to EBRT, recommended by NICE where available, used in nearly 300 centres in ~38 countries, and included in

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

Flu pandemics recur reliably but unpredictably every decade or so, and their extent and intensity varies. With COVID19, we may be in midst of a once-every-50-years event, perhaps similar to

Subhasree Ray

DrSubhasree

What do we know about Vitamin C and #COVID19 so far?The role of #VitaminC goes beyond immunity-boosting & the micronutrient at high dose is crucial to prevent severity. Making a

Pami

pamiposts

Saturday: Allergy reactionSunday: Hit the Wall of FatigueMonday: Post-nasal drip swells left tonsil/aura migraineTuesday: Tonsil stones join inWednesday: Major acid reflux with double visionWorked out the trigger pattern and put

ScienceofParkinsons

ScienceofPD

The audience is accumulating (but maintaining the sensible social distancing rules) for this week's Thursday session of @3Pseminars!Almost time to start :) This is an online platform providing an opportunity

Elie Balesh, MD

ElieBalesh

I’m going to go out on a second limb & hypothesize that immune complex deposition underlies the multi-organ damage observed in critically ill #COVID19 patients. Read on. Chest CT provides

Alistair Haimes

AlistairHaimes

Weekly round up of useful / reliable English covid statistics:1. Incidence2. Care home outbreaks3. Hospital & ICU admissions and deaths4. Covid triage5. Cases6. Contact tracing7. The Vallance-tracker8. Mortality9. Miscellaneous#ahcveng

Kate the Ethically Unkillable

katehanson

Fun pregnancy "inconvenience" fact #1:The US has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world.How inconvenient! Fun pregnancy "inconvenience" fact #2:Almost 1 in 10 women experience PTSD following childbirt

Fatima Al Sayah

Fatima_AlSayah

COVID-19 in Lebanon: What does the age distribution of confirmed cases tell us about under-reporting of cases?A comparison with South Korea China & Italy @mophleb @DRM_Lebanon @WHOLebanon @thehealthnerds

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

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

TXinTimeOut

TXstillWatching

Shedding...plausible process by which it could occur through the release of exosomes from dendritic cells in the spleen containing misfolded spike proteins, in complex with other prion reconformed proteins. These