#Disease

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

Nobody wanted to see a repeat of the spring, with hospitalisations rising and stringent measures coming back in. But UK isn't in quite the same position as March, so here

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

What a way to start the week.Extremely good news about the Moderna vaccine this morning. Similar efficacy to the Pfizer vaccine, which increases my confidence in the Pfizer result. A

TheDisabilityEnthusiast

twitchyspoonie

Let me tell you about the main symptom of the chronic illness covid often gives people. It's called Post-Exertional Neuroimmune Exhaustion/Post-Exertional Malaise and it's like quicksand. It means the more

wear a mask

jvinopal

Assuming immunity from covid is even possible, herd immunity is estimated to happen when 67% of the population has been infected. That means 3.35 million citizens of Alabama would have

Laura Fagan

laurajfagan

To that end, the below thread is a compilation of research etc. on the topic. While not exhaustive, it's evidence it is well past time to balance any public health

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

Patrick Vallance: "Will there be subsequent waves? By definition it's an unknown, everyone I've spoken to thinks it's highly likely that this disease will continue to circulate and come back

Gupta Lab, Cambridge

GuptaR_lab

Following on from the first dose Pfizer data below where 7/15 participants above the age of 80 did not achieve neutralisation of virus, we report that all 15 have achieved

Dr Dominic Pimenta 💙 *Please* Just Stay At Home

DrDomPimenta

People talk about science as if it’s a body, an organisation :“Scientists say”, “the science says”, “we don’t trust science”.But that’s not what science is. Science is a verb. A

Bharadwaj

BharadwajSpeaks

Did you know?"Valentine's day" is named after Saint Valentine . He was a Christian bishop and a physician. He refused to treat his own fatally sick mother because she would

Anna Khan Khaled

aneelakhaled

"Whilst sitting in Imam Shafi'i's class one day, his student Yunus ibn Abd al A'ala differed with him. He got so angry that he left the class and went home.That

Joyce Elliott

xjelliott

As a teenager, I used to wonder, “What does this world want from ppl my hue of human?” After being a part of forced school desegregation, I literally refused to

Andy 🗣🏈

brodus_operandy

November 19th is International Men’s Day: a thread Men receive full custody of their children following divorce in only 10% of cases, and have a nationwide average roughly 35% custody

William Gibson

wgibson

FDA just posted the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine data here.Lots of good stuff.https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/downloadexample: Looks like one dose may induce meaningful protection around day 10. Looks like the vaccine works across subgroups reg

Tweets That Inspire

ibukun_tayo

Dr Stella Emmanuel tells the world that there is a cure for COVID-19.I don’t get why Bill Gates who isn’t a physician can freely express his opinion on Covid19 and

Michiel Tack

MTackCVS

1) New article on severe ME/CFS by the researchers who manage the UK ME/CFS Biobank. They visited a cohort of nearly 100 patients housebound by ME/CFS and wrote down their

Bill Livingston

Livy70

1 The gleam is fading for Marty Schottenheimer. Remember what this city was like in the mid-1980s — the novelty songs around the clock, the birth of the Dawgs and

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