Must-read interview: "A convergence of crises."
On the compounding repercussions of failing to learn the right lessons from COVID.
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⚠️Airborne precautions are required!⚠️
Doctors should know better, especially seven years into an airborne pandemic!
When outcomes shift after intervention, the link becomes clearer.
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Historically, medicine has learned by analogy.
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Dose-Response: more exposure; more risk.
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Specificity is a weak criterion for complex exposures like Covid. Covid is NOT specifically linked to any one outcome.
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Consistency across studies matters. When independent researchers find the same signal, we need to pay attention.
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Coherence - epidemiology and biology should tell the same story.
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“Avoiding COVID… but also missing people?
Help map cleaner-air spaces, COVID-conscious meetups, and safer community spots so people can reconnect without giving up their health."
Click on this link to find out more: airspothealth.com/a/blog/help-...
The WSWS spoke with Dr. Arijit Chakravarty. Dr. Chakravarty is the chief executive officer of Fractal Therapeutics, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company that applies mathematical modeling to drug ...
"Evacuating the two others suffering respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms, one of them the ship’s doctor, is now top priority..."
The. Ship's. Doctor. 🙎♀️.
The. Ship's. Doctor. 🙎♀️.
If only there was protective equipment and some field of science and a principle guiding its use 🤷♀️
I've spent yesterday and today talking to researchers across the globe trying to understand the hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius.
My story in @science.org is here (and some threaded thoughts coming):
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🧪 #IDsky
Questions about the culprit virus and its route of spread remain as health officials make plans for stranded passengers
