#Disease

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

Warning - some in-the-weeds tweets about vaccine efficacy trials, new strains, and decision making under uncertainty. I offer more questions than answers, but hopefully it can generate some discussion...1/6 For

Mauna Dasari

chumblebiome

I am so incredibly frustrated with @NotreDame's response to COVID and so worried for my students. They didn't deserve this. How dare Jenkins pretend reopening was a question of morality

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

"HOSPITALS ARE OVERWHELMED" IS A BIG LIE. Hospitals are under-staffed on purpose by moving staff to needlessly administer SARSCoV2 viral fragment "testing" of healthy people with no disease, also known

J.C. Bradbury

jc_bradbury

At this stage, I think a statewide mask mandate would do little, bc as a practical matter it's become politicized. If issued today (which I support) the practical effect would

Divia Eden

diviacaroline

QTing my reply so I can thread some thoughts I keep having about the relationship between contagiousness and severity of diseases. I have no background in any of this and

Girish Nadkarni, MD, MPH

girish_nadkarni

So grateful and excited for R01 funding from @NIDDKgov to study genetic and environmental modifiers of #APOL1 genotypes in racial and ethnic minorities. This grant especially is close to my

Dr. Sweta Chakraborty

swetac

I'm a risk and behavioral scientist. I assess threats related to pandemics, food scarcity, over-population, and climate change. Here's what we're not talking about enough: the frequency of global pandemics

Tobias Hohl

tmhohl71

1/n The ID service @sloan_kettering reports in @naturemed on determinants of #COVID19 severity in 423 symptomatic cancer patients treated at our institution. What did we find?https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0979-0 2/n Overall, 40

Bob Moran

bobscartoons

We're not doing any of this because a lot of people were going to catch a cold. We're not destroying our economies and societies because a tiny number of people

Oliver Johnson

BristOliver

Thread: I want to tell you a story. A tale of two cities. This is a fairy story with no relevance to us, so there's absolutely no need to chip

Annisa Rahmalia

chocochic

Picked a fight with my sister tonight. Her office had a covid-19 screening last week. Without receiving the results employees were told to go back to work at the office

Club des Cordeliers

cordeliers

Criminalization of disease: CDC is already implementing “molecular surveillance” of people living with HIV. Genetic sequencing data is collected without the patient’s consent, shared with law and immigration enforcement. https://www.p

alex cardazzi

ACardazzi

Been interested in the excess non-COVID deaths the past few months. Interesting June NYT article estimates 6K EXTRA heart disease related deaths in NY/NJ from mid March to beginning of

Fergal Bowers

FergalBowers

The BMJ tonight reporting:Doctors in Norway have been told to conduct more thorough evaluations of very frail elderly patients in line to receive the Pfizer BioNTec vaccine against covid-19, following

Shlomo

hapoelorient

Of course I am opposed to Anti-Semitism, my family is all from Poland but this boycott is non-senseIt achieves nothing & misses the point which is Anti-Semitism is NOT the

Justin Hart

justin_hart

Have you seen this level of detailed reporting ANYWHERE else? @jhaskinscabrera, editor of @AlachuaChronic1 and contributor to @Rational_Ground examined some 700 death certificates from the state of Florida:https://rationalground.com/florida

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