#Disease

Matt Davidson

md_ptbo

Always good to see a labour historian giving the #HaitianRevolution its due! We need to talk about the role that disease played in the revolution, though.https://twitter.com/ErikLoomis/status/1296810185902698497 In this thread, @ErikLoomis

Josh Wallace

caudatajosh

Intertidal Healing A constellation of Ochre Sea Stars (Pisaster ochraceus) doing their duty as the keystone species in the intertidal zone off the northwest coast of North America. A keystone

Dyfrig (😷) Hughes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

DyfrigH

The level of knowledge of some US citizens about the way "socialised medicine" works (eg the UK’s NHS) seems limited. Socialised medicine may be a key battleground in the upcoming

Dr Noor Bari (Miasma Medic)

NjbBari3

About COVID19 and the road out of this mess.... We have a situation where we are using vast quantities of resources, creating tonnes and tonnes of garbage (masks, swab

Plum Remson 🙂😄🙂

PlumRemson

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

David Wallace-Wells

dwallacewells

The alarming lead story in the New York Times this morning concerns the growth of COVID-19 through Africa, where the cumulative death total from the disease is less than 45

David Dowdy

davidwdowdy

New piece on subclinical TB in @ATSBlueEditor by the thoughtful @emilyakendall and @soustha - ahead-of-print paywall (working on it), so here's a quick thread, using figures presented elsewhere.Many of these

Jordan

JKellyLinden

Contact tracers speaking anonymously to @Telegraph said England’s test and trace service is so complex they fear potentially dangerous symptoms could be missed or the wrong advice given to the

Sarah Newey

sneweyy

Tony Blair urged the UK to use the G7 presidency to establish a uniform global vaccine passport. Conceded there will be inequalities, but it is “inevitable” countries will demand to

Ziv Gan-Or

ZivGanOr

Interesting, yet not surprising. alpha-synuclein is absent from almost all Submandibular gland biopsy in individuals with LRRK2 p.G2019S variant, with and without PD.1...https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-34261/v1 IMO, LRRK2-associat

Stuart Neil

stuartjdneil

So this is something you hear trotted out a lot and it’s a bit of a lazy stereotype, with the examples usually being highly pathogenic viruses that are poorly adapted

Haider Warraich

haiderwarraich

When my patient came to the hospital unable to breathe weeks after #COVID19, it was his heart not his lungs that was failing. Now he might need a transplant. In

Nadiah Wan

lapetitemaligne

OK, "Can I come to a private hospital if I have Covid?" Here's what's going to happen. (1/)1. Cat 1 & mild Cat 2 will be discharged for home monitoring

Tim Bousquet

Tim_Bousquet

I was going to return to the "more information" issue, but I'm told there's no more time for me. FWIW, I don't think I deserved to be yelled at by

Ryan McNamara 🧬

Ryan_Mac_Phd

Been seeing a lot of miscommunication and misinformation on the conflation between virus infection and disease state. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19. You can't have COVID-19 without becoming

Ann Bauer

annbauerwriter

If I were to write a dystopian novel about a pandemic (I promise I won't), it would go like this:Disease created for biological warfare is leaked. It's designed to prey

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