High BMI (#obesity) is associated with worse #COVID_19 outcomes - significantly higher risk of hospitalization, ventilation, and death. Why? Obesity causes inflammation, which impairs immune function, and decreases lung capacity.
Source: Kompaniyets et al. 2021 @CDCMMWR
A *stunning* development. The letter says COVID-19 could have leaked from a lab. To some of us that possibility has been obvious for well more than a year. What is significant about this is the masthead (Science) and author list, which includes Ralph Baric
https://t.co/Q4HoBAKwEs
I don't want politics mixed in with my medical decisions. And when all of our news sources for Covid information have an agenda to spin us, you wind up with a badly misinformed population. #BreakingNews#ScaredStraight
Israel’s largest vaccine study to date found that people who received two doses of the Pfizer shot were 92% less likely to develop severe illness from Covid-19 https://t.co/a2C9d1vYv7
Eli Lilly said its antibody-based drug prevented Covid-19 among many residents and staff of nursing homes and assisted-living facilities, results that point to the drug complementing vaccines while inoculations increase https://t.co/z7uQMUiCFS
The marks of a bright GOP future:
-Fiscal responsibility
-Support for small businesses and local communities
-Immigration reform
-Criminal justice reform
-Common-sense environmentalism
-Investment in American-made jobs and products
-Healthcare and education affordability
NY Mag: "What happened was fairly simple, I’ve come to believe. It was an accident. A virus spent some time in a laboratory, and eventually it got out" https://t.co/UBA7nJfoD7
It is past time to shove scientists down the throat of “Trust and Safety”:
‘All possibilities should be on the table, including a lab leak,’ a scientist from the NIH, Philip Murphy — chief of the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology — wrote me recently.” https://t.co/AVYCk05VJQ
When a MSM outlet posits a lab-leak origin for SARS-CoV2, does that make them far-right conspiracists, or do those of us who were trying to have a scientific discussion about this from the beginning get readmitted to the Tribe of Acceptable People? https://t.co/CmIPDMPCfM