#Strains

Christina Pagel

chrischirp

THREAD: Will lockdown work? We're starting several weeks of lockdown in England while we try to vaccinate as many vulnerable people as possible. Every day more stories drop about the

Abdu Sharkawy

SharkawyMD

Plenty of angst now re: vaccine shortages, "scariant" variants, what awaits in this winter of relative discontent & beyond. Let's unpack this to maintain some hope for the future. There

The Medical M.A.B.

Oga_DoctorBlue

Ive had a few conversations with non-medical folk about taking the vaccine, most recently with the boys I grew up with. Real questions have come up, and they're not stupid

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

I am not full sure people appreciate the impact of B117 strain on the course of the pandemic. TL;DR B117 is "a pandemic inside a pandemic" and demands both monitoring

Laura Henderson

SixandLaura

1/ The k value, the dispersion of the R0 among cases, is low in SARS-cov-2, as it was in SARS 110-20% of cases cause 80-90% of new infections. *7/10 cases

Giorgio Gilestro

giorgiogilestro

There are two issues with the English variant, as it is now referred. One issue is "what it could do" and the other issue is "what it could represent". They

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

i mean by my count is 550,000 but YMMVhttps://twitter.com/sangerkatz/status/1350130677690331136 The math on this pretty simple.First, you take CDC's reported deaths. Then you make an adjustment for underreporting of recent deaths.

Alex Rowell

alexjrowell

Thread: I’m as guilty as anyone of admiring Pity the Nation when it was the first book I’d read on #Lebanon and I knew nothing else about the place, and

GMScott2

GMScott2

Yes! It will be a hard nut to crack to foster the sort of character- and story-focused gaming to an organized play format, but CR has some wise, insightful folks,

FluSCIM Lucas Gonzalez

lucasgonzalez

The cycle goes on no matter what we do. It's OODA or ~.I used it together with SCIM: http://resiliencemaps.org/files/fluscim , for a severe flu pandemic. Open license.Sent it to @WHO, @ECDC

Mac n’ Chise 🧬🧫🦠

sailorrooscout

Good mRNA vaccine news this morning! Ben Osborn, the UK head of Pfizer, said they do not expect to have to change their vaccine to handle SARS-CoV-2 variants B.1.1.17 and

Avon Healthcare

AVONHMO

1 in 4 women delays Pap smear tests because of embarrassment/ignorance even though early detection increases the recovery rate by 80%.Here's a thread on everything you need to know about

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

Just a few days before Christmas, all the strains of coronaviruses had an urgent top-secret board meeting. Important matters needed to be discussed. Crucial decisions to be made. On the

Thomas Dvorak

thomdvorak

Quick thread on one aspect of vaccination that currently doesn't quite make the headlines but is likely to become very important in the coming months - vaccine reluctance.This different from

Forrest Maready

forrestmaready

1. The polio story as you learned it is wrong. It’s one of the most often misunderstood sequence of events in the last two hundred years. I wanted to explain

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aeyokay

Boost Ur Immune System Thread_Eat as many antioxidant and flavonoid-rich foods as possible, such as: cranberries, cherries, blueberries, citrus, leafy greens (kale, spinach, chard), red cabbage, beets, yams, carrots. The

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