#Diseases

Infectious Diseases

InfectiousDz

Denial has always been a part of any epidemic. Pathogens, invisible and wiggling into vulnerabilities and fault lines in society, slip by cloaked by denial. The philosopher Foucault said of

Shiba Vibes

pubberwubber

Claims against zoophilia, debunked~Also, credit to @/Kn0tWintergreen for quite a few of these sources, go check out their pinned tweet!I’ll be adding to this as I go “Animals have the

Rupert Pearse

rupert_pearse

As we come to terms with a second lockdown, some reflections on the latest report on Intensive Care admissions for COVID-19 published on Friday. A big shout out to the

Malcolm Clark

TwisterFilm

1./ The vaccine hypocrisy of G7 leaders is breathtaking. They make it sound like they care SO very much about deaths in the developing world. Actually, their priority is about

Emily Rees

emilyrees_eu

Some thoughts on the skinny Sanitary & Phytosanitary terms of the TCA Agreement that will result in significant barriers to trade. While the Chapter introduces world-first language on the ‘softer’

Cam

camliveshere

Pete Evans has clearly planned this. His usual following isn’t engaged because they were there for the recipes. So how do you grow a new audience? You throw QAnon bait.

David Hamilton

davidghamilton1

Tasmanian devil news! A new study by @AustinHPatton in @ScienceMagazine (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6522/eabb9772) investigates the genetic makeup of devil facial tumour disease through time, finding that it has shifted from

Pelagia

Ljiljana1972

While the B sides of the Western phil canon wait here is a thread on The Pantokrator Xenon, the Byz hospital that you cannot hear a lot about at the

Jason Abaluck

Jabaluck

My experience was:a) The med community was *terrible* on masks as of late March -- people I spoke with insisted, "We can't recommend something that wouldn't be approved by the

DiogenesSister

DiogenesSister

1/ I'm a frontline worker in a setting no one much cares about: A jail. Jails aren't prisons. Most inmates are there on petty charges; some are there for short

Ryan Bourne

MrRBourne

.@tylercowen has an interesting post on libertarians and pandemic policy today. If I'm internalising correctly, I see him as making two separate points: that the libertarian response to a pandemic

Divah Phiri

PhiriDivah

1/11 Time to embrace Professional Nursery-Raisers?. When it comes to horticultural vegetable growing nursery management is the most critical component determining the degree of success of any vegetable farming venture.

Arthur Wyns

ArthurWyns

71 countries have now submitted new or updated national climate commitments (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement.But how does the COVID-19 pandemic feature in these climate plans?A thread 1/ The

Vaccinations Save Lives 💉💙

Belle_rich

Thread.I attended a learning session today on infection prevention & control for my national role in providing specialist public health advice.With the new UK variant widely circulating and reports its

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

What sends Ross off the deep end is that racial equity is being raised in the vaccine allocation discussions. Once we talk race, then it's politics for Ross, and he

Kelvin Ward

UCUltrasound

This was by far and away the most important news story yesterday in NZ... however the NZ media appears to have given it only cursory exposure. Maybe they do not

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