Jeff Gilchrist
PhD Biomedical researcher, data scientist, and finder of large prime numbers. Views are my own. @jeffgilchrist@mstdn.science @jeffgilchrist.bsky.social
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Why should we care about a virus with a "99.8% survival rate"? This thread highlights the actual impact a virus with a high survival rate can have on the population and why it is...
Why do people seem to be getting sick more often now? For yet another year we are already seeing earlier and significantly higher hospital admissions for respiratory illness than...
How COVID actively suppresses and evades your immune system [Part 2] Part 2 looks at how mild and moderate #COVID infection reprograms white #blood cells (#monocytes) to reduce #i...
Think of the COVID virus as a Ninja, it can sneak into your castle and hide even if the guards have seen Ninja before and defeated them. The guards can't fight them unless they kno...
What is going on with our immune cells after COVID-19 infection? This thread will explore some of the impacts of COVID infection on our immune system even after people are recover...
How #respirators actually work and which type is best? I see many claims #masks don't work. This thread will explain *how* they block #viruses much smaller than the size of the ho...
Why aren't people wearing masks? A behavioural psychologist explains why Canadians still aren't willing to wear masks even when multiple viruses are causing children to be hospita...
Toilets, wastewater COVID-19, RSV, and Influenza all increasing This thread will be wastewater related, looking at new variants, levels, and what happens in the air after you flus...
Children dying from Strep throat and other immune consequences This virus season has been like no other with high hospitalization rates from RSV, Influenza and now more children a...
COVID-19: Ontario Variants Update (Sequencing to Nov. 23, 2022) Time for another update on COVID variants in Ontario, Canada. The BA.5.* variants are decreasing significantly and...
I wanted to clarify some wording that I used earlier in this thread that I can't edit now (thanks Twitter!) so it is accurate. Anywhere that refers to Novavax using more conserved...
Who wants to join me in helping fight hunger with a donation to your favourite food bank from Nov. 28-Dec.4 with #HCWvsHunger ? People from around the world can participate. Submit...