#Smallpox

So I went down a rabbit hole of human challenge studies through history, there's some Good, some Bad and some Ugly.1/. Smallpox 1796 - English Edward Jenner tested the world’s
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Thread: Twitter is a platform for sharing information. Like facebook it is not evil, just a digital platform. However, please do not rely on twitter for World News. There are
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There is a whole load of misinformation out there on what a virus is - and I don't know enough about them.So I asked a virologist - a thread:"Live virus
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I'd be curious what others with more experience in the innovation/commercialization world think, but it seems to me that we don't want to go back to the type of "vaccine
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I introduce the "Scary Virus Paradox":"After clearing a threshold, the less deadly a virus is, the more it will kill." (Deadliness here defined as R0 * IFR)(log-log graph)This is obviously
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Polish politics is becoming more farcical than ever. Both sides try to provoke the other in order to discredit it, but in the eyes of a different audience. As no
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Public health crisis-related #MormonAmerica story time? Public health crisis-related #MormonAmerica story time. Let's talk about a time when Utahns rejected medical intervention as an infringement on personal rights, resulting in
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Is there anyone out there who can tell me what our end game is with #COVID19?What is the magic formula that is going to allow us to sound the all
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We need a plan to counter the wild speculation & ignorance that will roar to life the day Pfizer's & Moderna's vaccines are authorized by FDA.This was driven home to
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details thread on how to counter Russian orthofascism: 1. immediate partition of Serbia, with a 20 kiloton warhead dropped on belgrade. More land should be given to Albania than Croatia
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As the fight against COVID-19 continues & public-health measures wear on, it may be encouraging to recall our many public-health victories of the past.Here's a short list of diseases that
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1. COVID currently is not going to be eliminated. Islands/small countries can exploit geographic advantage - but are susceptible to the world given how deep this has infiltrated. Compare to
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Media must learn to stop the snark when communicating. Listening to @NPR there is strange condescension instead of information, particularly with vaccine - RNA delivery is a brand new platform,
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One person has a cough and the whole of the financial capital of the perfect utopia that is New Zealand is shut down.https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-auckland-into-level-3-lockdown-nz-to-alert-level-2/VICFSFKSMGMQRU2WKBTIT
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Humanity’s history is a battle against the microbes. And for most of our history we were losing very decisively.My new post – and visualization – on how vaccines allowed us
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why the word rat is a slur, so some of you can finally get it through your skull to stop calling atsumu a rat. historically, racism against asians has always
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