#Infection

Meluleki

pablozmelu

Small request to PAC members @BusisaMoyo @ShingiMunyeza Can we advise govt to act on the ticking timebomb that is our transport system?I was in a ZUPCO bus today. The current

Faheem Younus, MD

FaheemYounus

COVID Myth-busting Thread: Too many myths floating around. Here’s part 2.1/10: Avoid shipped packages/gas pumps/shopping carts/ATMs or you’ll die.Wrong. Coronavirus surface survival is one thing; that surface causing an infection

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oshaprapranurse

Asthenozoospermia (or asthenospermia) is the medical term for reduced sperm motility. Complete asthenozoospermia, that is, 100% immotile spermatozoa in the ejaculate, is reported at a frequency of 1 of 5000 men. It is a

julia | only angel on sundays

sunflowervolUP

one direction imagines that make me laugh to the point where i want to throw up; a thread TWdeath, nsfw, food hairy nail lima lewis zain the one direction infection

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

Now this is a covid antibody test! Not only looks good on its face w/ 100% sensitivity (likelihood of seeing antibodies if they are there) & 99.8% specificity (not seeing

David Lat

DavidLat

1/ Interesting news.My husband Zach, who had what we're pretty sure was #COVID19 last March (which is when I was sick with it and went to the hospital), just tested

Max Kennerly

MaxKennerly

Lloyd's a billionaire and Senior Chairman at Goldman Sachs. He could easily employ a team of actuaries, biostatisticians, economists, epidemiologists, hospitalists, infectologists, and statisticians to price out various cost/benefit sce

Andrew Lilico

andrew_lilico

No objection in principle to any of this. But 60% infection = 40m sufferers = 8m pneumonia cases, 95% of which occur in a 9 week period. So they're not

Kathy Unger

ignitehealing

#COVID19 is not even a #VIRUS but an EXOSOME.An EXOSOME is part of our normal cellular structure.Thank you @jarue369 and Dr. Andrew Kaufman for this disclosure.https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2087&v=Xr8Dy5mnYx8&feature=emb_title I

Password Hunter02

BenKTallmadge

Lawsuit filed against a Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods plant claims it created a public nuisance by failing to protect workers from China coronavirus virus infection -https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/business/economy/coronavirus-smithfield-meat.ht

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Okay, new paper out in @TheLancetInfDis. Yes, this guy was reinfected. Yes, he got sicker the second time around. No, it doesn't mean that this is common or that reinfection

Stephen Gruppetta

S_Gruppetta

Modelling is dodgy, some say. But if we fit the real published data to it, using data to adjust model parameters, we increase confidence in the model, perhaps? THREAD full

We Want to Live

WeWanttoLive5

1/ We are mass PCR testing for CV & recording everyone who dies within 30 days as a CV deathIf we constantly PCR tested everyone for the common cold &

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

I’m a virologist. Public should know covid exposure dose matters. We have to conserve masks for healthcare workers, but masks can help anyone, reducing amount of virus released (even by

Gabriel Leung

gmleunghku

Just out: COVID-19 vaccine trials primarily assess prevention of virologically confirmed disease; NOT infection or transmission. An “effective” vax confers protection from disease but might not reduce spread...1/5https://twitter.com/the

Dominique Dupagne

DDupagne

Thread sur l'interprétation des tests PCR (nez-pharynx) pour le SARS-CoV-2 (COVID19)Aussi bizarre que cela puisse paraître, le résultat d'un test ne peut être interprété que si l'on connait, même grossièrement,