#Variants

Sterghios A. Moschos

DocMoschos

News of the day: inhaled budesonide can keep people with COVID19 out of hospital. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.04.21251134v1 Small, but blindingly effective study using an off the shelf, cheap, widely used drug to

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—Single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine was 72 % effective at protecting against moderate to severe illness in US, 66 % effective in Latin America & 57 % effective in South

Sam Freedman

Samfr

This is superb news. A 4th working vaccine and UK has ordered 60m doses.https://twitter.com/BBCFergusWalsh/status/1354899361365422085 J+J reporting next week. That will hopefully give us 5. Hugely important in speeding up the

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

FTH_Buddy_Falcon

francesmiddlet2

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

Carrie Bercic

CarrieBercic

I challenge every single elected trustee to put fwd motions for immediate mask mandates. When we have respected drs saying that #COVID19 variants are so dangerous we should all wear

Mekinot ❤⛵🔞

entropycurse

Saw ppl complaining that they can't act like adults and mute/block stuff because artists don't tag it. Here's a small guide of what to do in those cases (and yes,

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

Black Dragon Games

BlackDragonCan

One of the things I have done in my setting is to reorient the classes towards the factions in the setting. AD&D defaults to “adventurers” as the main class orientation,

Matthew Willis

NavalAirHistory

When working on my new book 'Mustang: The Untold Story', it became clear that there is an awful lot of confusion about the early marks of North American Mustang/P-51. So

Gupta Lab, Cambridge

GuptaR_lab

B1.1.7 has more than 20 changes in genetic code, of which 8 are in the Spike protein (shown below). Spike is the target of many of our immune and vaccine

Dr. Tom Frieden

DrTomFrieden

Covid Epi Weekly: Don’t Ease Up on the Brakes!Variants are coming—but so are vaccines. Let’s double down on protection protocols (masks, distance), scale up equitable vaccine delivery, spur innovation in

Ottawa Public Health

OttawaHealth

THIS IS A CATCHY & ATTENTION-GRABBING TITLEToday, the Province will likely announce what zone of the reopening framework we'll shift into as of Tuesday. Whatever is announced, though, doesn't change

Samir Gupta

SammyG_MD

1/ I am getting a lot of questions about masks and new variants. Some are calling for a universal N95 policy. Also hearing a lot of experts talk about cloth

The Medical SHO

admit_medics

A 27 year old male presents to ED with myalgia and dark urine. His U&E are through the shoot! Cr 765!!! He’s not passed much urine either. He’s been unwell

Tom Inglesby

T_Inglesby

Very encouraged by the moves forward this week in the US vaccination effort. An average of 1.2-1.3M doses a day being administered across the country now (up from 700k-800K 2

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