#Disease

Given that a percentage (8%-https://medium.com/medical-myths-and-models/the-human-genome-is-full-of-viruses-c18ba52ac195) of our own DNA is virus-based & viruses are VERY adaptable in that they MUTATE FREQUENTLY (https://www.sciencedire
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Interesting case (from our archives!) to start the week: A woman in her 60s with asthma and chronic rhinitis presents with a new morbilliform rash on trunk & extremities. Skin
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Vigorous one hour walk with Rufus achieved. Because exercise is important, y'all.You know what, quick thread. Here's how I do it. 1/ Let's start at the beginning. A sedentary lifestyle
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The highly infectious COVID-19 coronavirus variant that has been circulating in Britain is linked to higher loads of the virus in the blood, according to a research report https://reut.rs/2Js0TSR  1/9
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A thread of comparisons between seasonal flu and Covid-19 as per the World Health Organisation:1. Both seasonal influenza, which is itself a type of coronavirus, and the coronavirus that causes
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Two papers out from $REGN in @ScienceMagazine describing the company's investigational antibody cocktail approach to protect against #COVID19. Paper 1 describes pairs of highly potent (pM neutralization potency) non-competing mAbs
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@MattHancock says yet again that “Schools are safe”, because children are at low risk of serious disease. With current v high disease prevalence (maybe 1 in 20 or 30 in
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Once the hadd of riddah is abandoned, the disease spreads freely. If you leave a rotten apple in a barrel of apples, soon the whole barrel will become rotten. It
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Flu is a serious illness. It kills people. Unlike Covid, it often kills healthy people and even kills children. Flu seasons overwhelm the NHS and can see up to 60,000
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Your W.H.O. ‘Goodwill Ambassadors‘ still include: Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese dictator Xi Jinping & Major General in the People’s Liberation Armyhttp://who.int/about/who-we-are/structure/goodwill-ambassadors James Chau, propagan
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This thread pulls together some of the information underpinning the decision to delay the 2nd dose of COVID19 vaccine. The brief statement from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation
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Translation of Tokyo Governor's Press Conference at 5PM, 2 Jul (given the more than 100 new cases on the day):- 27.1 untraceable cases in seven days average; 158.4% increase of
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Omega informs you that there is a series of 10 illnesses, each identical to #COVID19. Choose:"Lock down": everyone will be unemployed/locked at home for 15 years, but 0 deaths "Surrender":
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Coverage of disease modelling tends to focuses on population-level 'what could happen next?' scenario analyses and predictions. So I wanted to highlight some early COVID-19 insights that you've probably heard
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The question here is not whether the gov't gives everyone only 1 dose in order to vaccinate more people.The question is, to increase # vaccinated *sooner*, should gov't take some
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Dear medical profession: please get your act together on this. It’s been a few hundred years. You’ve had more than enough time.@AmerMedicalAssn needs to speak out against this behavior, for
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