How this may be the case is an interesting question. Additive effect of chronic inflammation? Some other confounding environmental exposure? 🤷♂️ #IDMastodon#MedMastodon#oncology#lung#cancer
It's hard to believe it's been 10 years since I dove into #vaccine outreach and did the first "Quarantine Tent" event. It happened at the Science Rendezvous science festival in 2013. Lots of volunteers.
After that I took it to about a dozen other street festivals. At each one, we interacted with 500 or so people. Even had constructive conversations with antivaxxers and vaccine-worried.
At one, we even met a #smallpox survivor -- he was one of the last to get it in the mid-1970s, in India.
The approach I decided on was inspired by the thought "too bad people can't meet from the past who experienced the horrors of infectious diseases before vaccines were invented." And eureka -- an idea was born.
The key for me to enjoying Mastodon: following tons of people, looking at journa.host and newsie.social to see who else to follow for news. Also taking suggestions of super-boosters and looking at hashtags, topics I like. #Introductions is one of them. I like #idmastodon#science#sciart#art#writing#politics#history and many other topics. I learn a lot from #blackmastodon#lgbtq#autistic and many communities. We will all be more healthy when we open our eyes, learn, and work together.
@mastodonmigration
The lack of medicine / medical sciences as an academic specialty highlights why sometimes I find Mastodon so lonely as a platform for academia!
Some hospitals refusing to mask anymore because they claim people are likely to get #COVID elsewhere anyway. That's a dereliction of duty. Regardless of what is happening elsewhere, no one should ever have to risk their health while seeking medical care. Do no harm.
@luckytran And yet hospitals is where you get a higher concentration of vulnerable and at-risk patients. Even catching a common cold from someone in a crowded waiting room can trigger serious problems in people with #asthma, #cancer, transplant recipients, etc. There must be data out there showing a drop in #nosocomial infections during #mask wearing during mandates?
Not just hospitals, any healthcare setting where vulnerable people and sick people are likely to mix -- including their FP's clinic. #COVID#IDmastodon#MedMastodon
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