#Syphilis

Judy I. Lin

judyilin

Oh Taiwan CDC. They gave these diseases...personality traits? COVID likes: crowds, changing appearances, pranks, busy places and being lazy... hepatitis is a boy band...who likes pork liver soup and tattoos...

Lucy Abel

LittlerLabel

This is a thread on racial inequalities in health, past and present. White health researchers like myself have a duty to learn the history, educate ourselves on the current issues,

Archdruid Eileen

ArchdruidEileen

Was thinkiing about John Snow and his discovery that the spread of cholera was associated with drinking water - and specifically the pump in Broad St, Soho. The water board

Marina

marinadpol

It's high time to denazify the medical curriculumClara cell = Club cellReiter's syndrome = Reactive arthritisReiter’s spirochete = Treponema foransWegener's granulomatosis = Granulomatosis with polyangiitisSeitelberger disease

MGH CARE Research Center

MGHCAREResearch

Its Sunday and we’re doing a long thread on past medical abuses against Black communities to try to help science Twitter understand why “trust” is not the goal – the

Zain Chagla

zchagla

Reflecting on the future1) Short term - get transmission down, doesn't have to be perfect, just buy time for vax-reduce non essential interactions-support essential workers-strengthen testing/isolation/case/contact tracing-improve commu

Ed Barnard

ewbarnard

Remember when Al Capone announced what the judge was going to say... and the judge was having none of it? Seems relevant to November 2020, doesn't it! It all has

Motor City Muckraker

MCmuckraker

Without a widespread willingness of the populace to get vaccinated, the consequences could be disastrous: The pandemic won't end, leading to future surges, an overburdened healthcare system, a crippled economy,

Bolu Ogunyemi MD 🇨🇦

OgunyemiMD

Biomedical knowledge should always be considered in its socio-historical context, as social factors cannot be divorced from science. 1/ 10 Through much of the 19th and early 20th centuries, medical

jenn m. jackson

JennMJacksonPhD

I completely empathize with Black folx who are apprehensive about the COVID-19 vaccine. Western medicine has *never* done justice to Black people. Why would Black folx trust them now?While I

Kyle Orton

KyleWOrton

Karl-Otto Koch, an SS officer who was commandant at Buchenwald and later Majdanek, was executed before a Nazi firing squad on 5 April 1945 after being found guilty of corruption

Sunsara Taylor

SunsaraTaylor

THREAD: 1) It is extremely important that there is a growing public conversation about how to overcome the fears and suspicions of large numbers of Black people so that they

Michael Reoch

wellandable

Rant/1Recently, I was listening to Dave Chapelle talk about how the black community don't do vaccines. This made me think about what that reason would be. 2/It reminded me of

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽

meganranney

To be crystal clear:- we have a scientific method- scientists use that method to ensure safety of vaccines and medicines- the @US_FDA job is to protect Americans from shady hucksters

Dr William Lopez

lopez_wd

We keep citing the Tuskegee syphilis study to explain why communities of color don't "trust" the medical & public health establishments. But here's the thing, POC are not really dividing

Adam Parkhomenko

AdamParkhomenko

Our favorite cousin-banging target has the COVID, and he’s been hospitalized. Yes, Doodie Pooliani, the president’s lawyer, has contracted the virus. And we are damn conflicted. On the one hand,

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