#Disease

(1/14) Very important viral load & susceptibility study of 192 children (49 positive for #SARSCoV2, 18 with MIS-C, 125 negative).Despite having generally mild symptoms, children who tested positive had a
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IMPORTANT THREAD:1)For anyone who has followed Farrakhan's hate-filled career — praising Hitler, calling Jews termites, calling Judaism a gutter religion, attacking gays — the content of any Farrakhan speech comes
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For all my interactions with people with chronic illness, I have never interacted with a chronically ill hypochondriac -- that is, someone who IS sick but invents additional symptoms or
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We protect ourselves from #SARSCoV2 with hand-washing & self-isolation. To protect others, we must challenge virulent #misinformation.“We are all science communicators now: #COVID19 has conscripted us.” My piece today @TheAtlIdeas
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Canada lost its Covid vaccine under the FIPPA pushed through by PM Harper.Political journalists: you want a scandal?Here’s your scandal.https://canadians.org/fipa-info  IMO this isn't the biggest Canadian vaccine fail. 10 years
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I have a really important message for you New York. Please share.Sadly I know a lot about disease-induced hysteria in NYC. This message is not to cause panic, but prevent
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There has been a lot of discussion and controversy about forthcoming contact tracing apps (currently being tested on my beloved Isle of Wight).I thought you might enjoy a computer science
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In the House Oversight Committee, a mom (who is clearly frustrated and advocating for her daughter) just repeatedly said that antigen COVID-19 tests *may cause cancer*. There's absolutely no evidence
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#COVID19 Après 2 études en Californie, une 3ème étude de séroprévalence réalisée à Genève par @Hopitaux_unige confirme que les personnes infectées sont beaucoup plus nombreuses que les personnes testées par
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“We don’t routinely recommend the use of face masks by the public to prevent respiratory illness,” said on January 31. “And we certainly are not recommending that at this time
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Emma Livry: A THREAD Emma Livry (born as Jeanne Emma Emarot or Emma Marie Emarot; 24 September 1842 – 26 July 1863) was one of the last ballerinas of
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1/19 Trump is pushing a #coronavirus "miracle cure", a drug cocktail of the old malaria drug chloroquine (& its relative hydroxychloroquine) & the antibiotic azithromycin.But even if it might prove
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update: before you let someone try to scare you with US case counts, please remember this:"reporting case counts without reference to testing levels is tantamount to lying."US cases are not
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I've just read an article by Dan Neuffer about recovering from #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis, which as @cfs_jo points out , uses language that will worry many #pwme. Long THREAD. I do get
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Okay, so here is my pitch for you to stay home and not gather for Thanksgiving next week. You ready? Okay, good. Here we go. My very first Covid week,
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Happy 40th anniversary to the #Drosophila hedgehog gene! OTD 40 years ago, Nusslein-Volhard and Wieschaus published an article that among other things, reported identification of a mutation in a gene
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