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Soumya Swaminathan
doctorsoumya
To counter the confusion between infection and disease, here's a thread on vaccines in the time of covid: 1) Vaccines are designed to prevent disease (symptoms). They are authorized and
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Hane Maung
HaneMaung
Some further thoughts about philosophical theories of disease:Even if we concede that we could have a value-free account of disease based on dysfunction (although I don't think we can—I see
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Nick Hudson
NickHudsonCT
A positive PCR test does not mean you “have COVID”. PCR tests seek portions of the virus SARS-COV-2, not the disease COVID-19. If you’re asymptomatic, you do not have the
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G Kang
GKangInd
Received 4th forward of a show, where host states vaccines that prevent disease are *medicine* not vaccines because they do not prevent infection. Let us get this straight, vaccines primarily
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Melissa McEwen
melissamcewen
What really scares me about covid is how it attacks the kidneys. Most people with kidney disease are poor and have to go to work. How many people are going
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Dr Andrew Digby
takapodigs
Bella the #kakapo is still undergoing treatment for the #disease cloacitis, and is responding well. Hers was a severe case: one of the worst we’ve recorded. She’s fortunate we found
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New York Association on Independent Living
NYAIL
New York State has released a list of conditions today that are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine beginning February 15th.The list is subject to change as more scientific evidence is
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DrSusieCurtis
DrSusieC2
A patient of mine was told in the ED that she has sickle cell train and beta thalassemia, not sickle cell disease, and so can't be having a pain crisis.
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Chris Masterjohn
ChrisMasterjohn
Start Here for Fatty Liver Disease:https://chrismasterjohnphd.com/2016/04/24/start-here-for-fatty-liver-disease/ Summary.1) All fatty liver — all of it — is very simple: fat in vs fat out. 2. “Fat in” is affected worst of
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Jim McManus OCDS
jimmcmanusph
There have been news reports that a recent study found the Oxford/AstraZeneca #Covid19 #vaccine is “less effective” against the South African Variant of the virus. This does NOT mean that
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Unironic AnCap ™️
Unironic_AnCap
I’m starting a new series called “Shit the Government has Done”. Today’s event: Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. Basically, between 1932 and 1972, the United States Public Health Service gave a large
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Chris Booth
drboothy
Assume a test is 90% specific and sensitive, and the disease it is testing has a 1% incidence.You test 1000 people - 10 actually have the disease. Of these 10
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Natalie E. Dean, PhD
nataliexdean
A few tweets on a topic that keeps coming up in discussion. There are many different types of vaccine efficacy - efficacy against infection, against transmission, against disease, and against
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Ernie Plumley-POTUS WON⭐️⭐️⭐️
ernie_plumley
1of7) I lost a good friend about six weeks ago due to a horrific disease. This disease has wrought much suffering to its victims. It causes a person to do
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rem
bettys_pov
how is the "mustin" related to justin's illnesses: a very necessary thread justin was misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder and was kept under lithium for a year which is why he
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Keith Siau
drkeithsiau
Here’s a thread summarising the coeliac disease guidelines in @UEGJournal @my_ueg https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/20506406198441251) What is it?CD is a chronic, multiorgan autoimmune disease that affects the small bowel in ge
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