#Endemic

megan culler freeman md, phd

mcfreeID

You may have heard my conversation with @jasonbnpr on @NPR this weekend as to why kids make up a relatively low percentage of #COVID cases overall,

Babak Javid

javid_lab

This just out in @ScienceMagazine getting lots of traction, including a write-up in @nytimes by @apoorva_nyc for good reason. Lots of interesting nuggets to mull over...1/nImmunological characteristics govern the transition

Ollie Ring

olliering

Wednesday musings:Sports & esports marketing. Why brands have got it right across both esports & sports, and it's often apples & organes when comparing.Shirt sponsors vs 'amazing content' etcA thread:

Anarcho State

St_Ans

Reminder:https://twitter.com/St_Ans/status/1100547321803300864 I’m not the first to say ithttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-29040793 The ONE Group described corruption as a Trillion dollar industryThat’s bigger annually than the illicit dr

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

What happens when a population reaches herd immunity? Does it mean epidemics suddenly stop forever? Unfortunately not... 1/ The herd immunity threshold is when susceptibility is reduced to point where

Gro-Tsen

gro_tsen

Tuberculosis kills roughly¹ as many people EVERY YEAR as covid-19 did in 2020. Yet the efforts deployed in fighting them are nowhere comparable.1. Both counts are probably underestimations, so it's

Brian Wasik

BrianRWasik

Back in May, I was one of many that had a public conservative approach to assessing a variant... that may have seeded with lineages of our reference strain in many

Sightsavers

Sightsavers

Trachoma is a potentially blinding neglected tropical disease (#NTD). However, it can be treated. Follow the journey of a trachoma treatment, from your donation all the way to a community

Xavi Ruiz

xruiztru

The Fanjingshan is the highest peak of the Wuling Mountains (China). Two Buddhist temples atop the separate peaks, which are connected by a short bridge.There are 8,888 steps to reach

Tim Spector

timspector

1/4 I’m aware that my comments from a recent interview on Times Radio have in some cases been taken out of context and I feel I need to clarify what

MikeP

UK_Optimist

Thread from an eminent Professor of Medicine...."When I learned my trade at med school we were taught that pandemics spread in waves through populations.First wave killed a lot of people, then

Pasco Fearon

PascoFearon

This is honestly one of the best things I’ve read on twitter, thank you @actionheroteach (great handle by the way!) 1/3https://twitter.com/actionheroteach/status/1284087533622693889 This very explicit pressure placed on kids at GCSE

Derek Cummings

datcummings

Why would we think that children don't get infected and transmit SARS-COV-2? Given the challenge of conducting these studies and the potential for bias due to the differential social disruption

Tshepo Madlingozi

TshepoMadlingo1

The problem is two-fold:Firstly, there is a trust deficit between the state & citizens. This deficit is caused by the fact that the state often fails to deliver basic services;

Kelly Brown

rubiconcapital_

1/ Other Coronaviruses vs. #SARSCov2 in (continued)Original thread below. Most striking observation was low circulation of Other Coronaviruses prior to #SARSCov2 “official” arrival in Feb/Mar 2020 in parts of

Louis

Louis_Allday

Hezbollah are held to an impossible standard. I’m losing track of the amount of disingenuous and stupid arguments against it that ignore the huge and manifold pressures that it operates

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