#Virus

1 Please read. Thank you.What are important & effective mitigating factors in COVID?1st, what is "a mitigating factor" in medicine?It's something that has the effect of making something bad less
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Three of every four rural counties in the U.S. are in what the White House Coronavirus Task Force defines as a “red zone.”The virus is spreading out of control in
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A recurring comment under our articles is some variation of: people are bad for the planet so fewer people will save it. ("humans are the virus!!")A new model projects the
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1)R.I.P. Todd Christensen My husband died on May 1st and his Dr called me less than 2 hours ago & said it was the coronavirus. He was an avid MAGA
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COVID-19 (coronavirus) UPDATE THREAD:Good evening, San Antonio.We are now at 384 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the county.Of 384 returned positives:- 102 are travel related- 132 are close contact- 117
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Chers citoyens de l'UE, Voulez-vous une pandémie encore plus longue ? Non, évidemment. Pourtant, vos gouvernements, en bloquant une plus large production de vaccins au niveau mondial, prolongent la pandémie.
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Thread on a potential silver lining of #COVID19 My friend @BenMazer is a pathologist and he's noticed huge declines in specimens obtained for cancer diagnoses. Reason: hospitals have stopped elective
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Putting countries into lockdown / shelter in place buys us time to figure out our next move, but the clock is ticking. Let's talk about mass testing and contact tracing
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another thread on HOW TO DO CPR!!I've been red cross certified in basic first aid and want to share basic information for those who need it. this thread will include
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Excellent article on the implications of "T-cell immunity". Important thing to note for the #COVIDIOT types claiming it means Herd Immunity is closer is that any existing "T cell immunity"
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this has maybe gone on longer than I've been aware, but looking at the last twenty years or so of national events I get the feeling everything happening more than
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From Brianne H. Rowan ‘12—Dear fellow Juniatians,I’m currently a 3rd year family medicine resident in Tacoma, Washington (just south of Seattle) and just finished a month on our busy inpatient
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1/. Entries are now open for the #CoronaVisionSongContest.Tweet songs here using the #CoronaVision+++ hashtag.Song categories listed below.Vote for your favourite songs by liking or RTing them.The most popular will go
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Only 1.3% of U.S. COVID-19 cases are current smokers. Only 2.3% are former smokers. Possible explanation? Nicotine lowers ACE2 expression. (SARS-CoV-2 uses ACE2 for entry into target cells.)https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6295500/ One major
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This is obviously serious Letter to Govt from Directors of Adult Social Services' concerns reflect what has been visible for some time Govt not engaging effectively with those responsible for
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As the Court Finally Steps in on the plight of Migrant Workers, cant help wondering why this didnt come 2 months sooner. In this thread some people I urge you
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