#Viruses

just as a person with a genetic defect like Down syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, Turner syndrome, genetic cardiac arrest, hemophilia, cystic fibrosis, Rett syndrome, etc.), because the genetic defect is forever!
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How do we measure how well the flu vaccine works every year? We use an observational study called the "test negative design." A few tweets on how it works, and
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Thread: Why masks in the general public DO NOT work.FACT: ZERO random controlled trials have demonstrated statistically-significant reduction in transmission of viruses by anything LESS than an N95. FACT: Anecdotes
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What if we talked about COVID like it was polio?Most of us think of polio and for Americans, our go-to is FDR, a president who hid his polio complications throughout
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1/10 First off, TY for this thoughtful response. While not scientist/academic, I've spent many years studying literature on infectious disease/paradigms of perceived risk/responsibility, and I appreciate the nuance you are
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Neuro f/u of #PIMSTS #MISC CNS & PNS symptoms proximal myopathyemotional lability probable immune mediated as other viruses expect to see function and structural brain changes trajectory indicating long term
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What is corona virus? Officially it’s a mix of bat, Malayan pangolin, and its closest relative is Bat as well as SARS-CoV. Once inside the body it attaches via a
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Oh god.Just realised we're about three weeks away from this government Hancocking its way through a 'safe trick or treating' policy. He's going to announce it's safe as long as
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434) By targeting what is actually a symptom of healing and falsely labeling it as an external invader that causes disease, the healthcare industry is not only committing egregious fraud
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We just entered the most critical decade for the news and information industry. A thread: 1. The pandemic forced many news orgs to innovate how they use technology, rethink how
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I am going to make time later today to please write out the history of measles to this group as I think it will be illustrative. We do not test
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(thread) I’m seeing too much misinformation about the vaccines on her daily. It has become so bad that I can’t stay silent on the topic. Working in the industry I
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A little tweet about social media. 1/ Social media is often touted as something bad. Something which bring up the worst in people. Cancel culture, bullying and bad behavior. Although
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Can we PLEASE stop using the word "clean" to refer to someone who doesn't have an STI? It's stigmatizing to people who DO have STIs and it reinforces this absurd
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2015: "To examine the emergence potential (the potential to infect humans) of circulating bat CoVs, we built a chimeric virus encoding a novel, zoonotic CoV spike protein -from the RsSHC014-CoV sequence that was isolat
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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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