#Respiratory

AlmondTree_SACK DOMINIC CUMMINGS

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THREAD: 'vaping disease' or #Covid19?Throughout 2019 there was a serious lung disease going around in the USA. Scientists still don't know the cause, but at the time it was attributed

Dr Kevin Purcell

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Excellent piece from Nature in 2019 with both new results and a great summary of previous work.Worth reading for the details.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-38808-z “The particle emission rate during speech is linearly correlated

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 121Grand rounds today, here: https://tinyurl.com/y5ut4435 . As I said in my intro (@ 1:00), we covered perhaps the most important topics in the world today: how

Nick Harkaway

Harkaway

If I have time, I’ll write this on Medium, but in case I don’t… I’m worried about three COVID-19 moments. 1. JuneSchools going back, likely bump in R. SAGE scientists

David Sinclair, PhD

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Since my Harvard lab closed yesterday, I've been reading and interpreting this week's published papers on #COVID19. What follows is a thread of information, my interpretation, links to sources &

Julija

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Deconstructing the microchip conspiracy myth.Source:http://Technocracy.news DARPA-Funded Biochip To ‘Save’ Us From COVID-19?It was the biggest conspiracy theory at the beginning of pandemic:"They will chip us all,"people

Mike Dupree

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Hi Twitter. I’ve seen you do some amazing things over the years - so I’m taking a swing to ask for some help. This is my cutie pie niece Natalie

Leana Wen, M.D.

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The U.S. has just reached 100,000 deaths from #covid19. What have we learned? A thread of 10 lessons: 1. This is an extremely contagious respiratory illness that spreads rapidly from

Dr. Theresa Tam

CPHO_Canada

1/9 To stay healthy & prevent spread of #COVID19 we MUST use multiple prevention measures TOGETHER like keeping 2 metres away from others, frequent #handwashing , covering coughs… – we

Greg

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What Does "Testing +" Mean?1) PCR tests cannot distinguish between an infectious virus and non-infectious nucleic acid (viral remnants). You could have caught something, beaten it, and still "tested positive"

WesElyMD

WesElyMD

1/ There are clinically relevant differences between #COVID19 #Sepsis & typical bacterial sepsis, but they are Quantitative rather than Qualitative. That is, all clinicians have seen them before in other

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kafkaintherun

Here is a comprehensive study on the Vaccine(s) that are being tested/studied for COVID-19.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7094941/ As SARS-CoV-2 enters human body through ACE-2 (Angotensin coverting enzyme 2) receptors, Angiotensin Bloc

Laura Henderson

SixandLaura

1/ The k value, the dispersion of the R0 among cases, is low in SARS-cov-2, as it was in SARS 110-20% of cases cause 80-90% of new infections. *7/10 cases

Craig Spencer MD MPH

Craig_A_Spencer

We need to talk about #LongCovid.Many who had #COVID19 continue to experience complications long after their initial illness.In thisbelow, I expand on what @angie_rasmussen and I discussed in this @ASlavitt

Environmental Justice Australia

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BREAKING: Analysis of data released from the National Pollutant Inventory reveals coal-fired power stations are our biggest polluters once again with a number of power stations reporting significant increases in

The Washington Post

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Covering your mouth and nose is one more thing people can do in addition to social distancing and hand-washing to slow the spread of the novel coronavirusHere are some answers