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Mashup Score: 88Against Models as Propaganda - 28 day(s) ago
We examine the misuse of infectious disease models as ideological tools
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Mashup Score: 13What is "immunity debt"? - 1 month(s) ago
A new study sheds further light on this seemingly controversial issue
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Mashup Score: 9The Munro Report | Alasdair Munro | Substack - 1 month(s) ago
Thousands of subscribers. A newsletter with analysis on issues affecting science, medical research, child health and infectious diseases. Click to read The Munro Report, by Alasdair Munro, a Substack publication.
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New post coming tomorrow morning looking at the fascinating evidence around the increase in new diagnoses of type 1 diabetes in children since the start of the pandemic! You can sign up here if you don’t want to miss it https://t.co/qEXd6PsOYS
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Mashup Score: 15How to not be completely wrong about air filters - 1 month(s) ago
A new RCT of HEPA filters for residential care homes gets heads spinning
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Just like masks, the topic of air cleaning for preventing infections just makes people lose their minds 🤯 This is true for a new RCT of air filters in care homes Want to know what it really means? Come learn how to not be wrong about air filters 💥 https://t.co/lPil2p59CE https://t.co/0pXc0dBzNl
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Mashup Score: 27How to not be completely wrong about air filters - 2 month(s) ago
A new RCT of HEPA filters for residential care homes gets heads spinning
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Is air filtering a useful way to reduce respiratory infections? Does the new RCT in residential care homes show they don’t work? Is air the new 💩? Answers to all this and more in my new post: How to not be completely wrong about air filters 💥 https://t.co/go9CktErfr https://t.co/zRDe24Wpds
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Mashup Score: 21
Macrolide resistance was found in 39.5% of 3626 nonduplicate Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from adult ambulatory and inpatient settings at 329 US hospitals (2018–2019). Macrolide resistance was significantly higher for respiratory vs blood …
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Whilst Mycoplasma usually causes mild illness, bugs like Strep pneumoniae or Group A Strep can cause life threatening illness These bugs have high rates of resistance to macrolides (up to ~50% in USA) The more we use it, the worse it gets 7/ https://t.co/TyhDhKsvxu
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Mashup Score: 30Carriage of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in the Upper Respiratory Tract of Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Children: An Observational Study - 2 month(s) ago
In order to determine the possible asymptomatic carriage of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in the upper respiratory tracts of children, Emiel Spuesens and colleagues investigate the prevalence of M. pneumoniae in symptomatic and asymptomatic children at a hospital in The Netherlands. Please see later in the article for the Editors’ Summary
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Irritatingly, upper respiratory PCR IS NOT HELPFUL in diagnosing M pneumoniae LRTI During an epidemic, >50% of children could test positive!!!! A negative result helps rule it out, but positive tests drive huge amounts of azithro prescribing 8/ https://t.co/rfzV5Nam4D
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Mashup Score: 12Cycles of susceptibility: Immunity debt explains altered infectious disease dynamics post -pandemic - 2 month(s) ago
The epidemiology of infectious disease reemergence since the COVID-19 pandemic is consistent with reduced population immunity from infection, due to non-ph
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RT @MAbsoud: FANTASTIC explainer of immunity debt/gap. Published in @CIDJournal — https://t.co/8s5pTFxDLd “This underscores the need for…
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Mashup Score: 35Confuse science with politics at your peril - 2 month(s) ago
When analysis and policy collide the results are often messy, sometimes awful
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Lots of post-election reflection on the growing distrust in science and its institutions A huge contributor has been scientists inability to decouple the analysis of the data to their own preferred political and policy response This continues to do harm https://t.co/iyCnxwjYYp https://t.co/1RCcH9B7To
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Mashup Score: 9The Munro Report | Alasdair Munro | Substack - 2 month(s) ago
Thousands of subscribers. A newsletter with analysis on issues affecting science, medical research, child health and infectious diseases. Click to read The Munro Report, by Alasdair Munro, a Substack publication.
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New post coming tomorrow morning looking at the fascinating evidence around the increase in new diagnoses of type 1 diabetes in children since the start of the pandemic! You can sign up here if you don’t want to miss it https://t.co/qEXd6PsOYS
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This is not the first instance of models being used in this way, and masks are frequently the object of the propaganda Call it out when you see it https://t.co/W3mx7COYLi https://t.co/gEj0b6LbFr